Original scientific paper

CULTURE BETWEEN ECONOMY AND POLITICS

Matko Meštrović ; Institute for Economics, Zagreb

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, Le. 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.

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Hrčak ID:

32432

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/32432

Publication date:

1.3.1995.

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