Original scientific paper

THE STATE AND CULTURE

Rade Kalanj ; Faculty of Philosphy, Zagreb

Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between the state and culture as one of the crucial, yet neglected issues in contemporary approaches to the theme of development. The cultural dimension has been introduced into the discussions on development as an expression of transcending the economicism. Viewed from this perspective, the state has not only the economic, but also the cultural role. In the discussions about the relationship between the state and culture relevant are the ideas of the great historian and philosopher Jacob Burckhardt, who – in a nearly ideally typical way – analyzed two various social forms: the one in which the state presupposes culture, and the other where culture presupposes the state. However, this relationship has become more complex in the contemporary development. Thus, two methodological and disciplinary perspectives has been proposed: the cultural anthropological, and the sociological and political. The first one insists upon the integrative function of culture and its role in the formation of the modern state. Another perspective includes an analysis of the political power as a subject of the cultural developement. Nevertheless, in the modern society the market has emerged as a factor questioning the traditional, dichotomic relationship between the state and culture.

Keywords

culture; cultural policy; cultural sphere; development; government; ideology; ideological apparatus; integration; power; market

Hrčak ID:

141656

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/141656

Publication date:

15.9.1998.

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