Full Description
This book seeks to generate a theoretical and a reflective framework to re-connect people with culture and spirituality. It seeks to recreate important links between these domains to provide interpretative, foundational, and ethical perspectives. It is distinctive in that it focusses on the challenges that humanity is facing at a cultural, social, moral, and spiritual level. It provides a philosophical understanding of humanity from a humanistic and multidisciplinary perspective (encompassing ethics, language, art/cinema, political, cultural and gender approaches) and offers a variety of ways of how we can rethink our culture and our society for the future.
Contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Ethos as Spiritual Dimension of Human Person.- 3. Do We Really Want a World Lacking of Silence- and Humanity?.- 4. Cinematic Time as a Spiritual Memory: Tarkovsky and Kierkegaard.- 5. Language and its Cultural Future.- 6. Albert Schweitzer's Philosophy of Culture and Spiritual Awakening.- 7. Ortega y Gasset and the Bigotry of Culture.- 8. Actuality of Spirituality in the Paradigm of Human Flourishing.- 9. Cultural Evolution of Human Self-Awareness.