Original scientific paper

Man and Culture of »Spiritual Desert«

Marko Vučetić orcid.org/0000-0002-8373-6173 ; University of Zadar, Department of Philosophy, Zadar, Croatia

Abstract

Man is a being of dialogue, being of communication, and this is the area where signs of possible crisis most visibly manifest themselves. C. Fabro, analysing communicational situation of contemporary man, notices how silence have replaced speaking. Dialogue with him/herself, which is the condition for dialogue with others, is substituted by man’s endeavour in establishing external dialogue with the world around him/her, by means of art, culture and philosophy. Culture, made in circumstances of so called »spiritual desert«(Fabro), itself becomes a culture of existential-spiritual collapse.
This article critically examines thesis on man’s solitude, or his/hers devotion on spiritual-cultural desert, exclusively because he/she has distanced him/heself from his/her foundations, i. e. because primary interest of his/hers does not lay in the area of Being and reality, but in the area of possible and virtual.

Keywords

Cornelio Fabro; man; culture; existence; Being; freedom

Hrčak ID:

23152

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/23152

Publication date:

7.4.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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