KULTURA IZMEĐU EKONOMIJE I POLITIKE
CULTURE BETWEEN ECONOMY AND POLITICS
Author(s): Matko MeštrovićSubject(s): Political economy, Evaluation research, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: Culture; Economy; Politics;
Summary/Abstract: Social spheres are not only analytical components of our overall thinking on society, but we also seem soci ally to exist/act according to their mutual determination. Are these abstract thoughts reality, is that thought itselftrue? In societies preceding the modern world, culture covered all aspects of human activity. Economy as such is the invention of modern society, where material practice is reduced to mere function, i.e. an optimization of allocation of means. Culture is no longer a symbolic system which gives meaning to existence. The demand to take into account the developmental importance of culture, if really understood, would require wholesale change in the entire body of theory and practice of economic systems modern civilisation is based on. If it is to save its progressivistic face it should make all the benefits of the world of human and natural life become intrinsic values.
Journal: Društvena istraživanja - Časopis za opća društvena pitanja
- Issue Year: 4/1995
- Issue No: 16+17
- Page Range: 355-369
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Croatian