Transformation of Cultural Policy in the Context Dichotomy “East – West”

2014

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DOI 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.04.498
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Abstract

The West and the East is an eternal opposition. If the East was represented in a number of historical researches as the area of general prosperity, erudition and enlightenment, or it was accented in the spirit of stagnation, slavery and poverty; that on the other hand the developed superiority of the West in the XIX and XX centuries in the technical and economic and strategic terms generated the illusion of the “inferiority” of the Eastern world in the minds of the certain circle of the European intellectuals that grants them the right of familiarizing the “inert” East to the benefits of civilization. Especially the view of the separate western and not only the western politicians unconvincingly represents that the eastern type of civilization, especially Muslim's, during contacts with other civilizations and cultures finds the imperial tendencies to other sociocultural societies. Actually the East in ancient times and at present time did not represent and does not represent itself as monolithic whole, moving in one eschatological direction. Therefore, it is necessary here a such scientific and historical understanding which approves the civilized approach in modern conditions which based on ideas of “cultural pluralism”, on recognition of respect for any cultures and faiths, on need of refusal from any advantages of this or that culture and consequently, denials from europocentrism and orientcentrism. The concept in an assessment of relationship between West and East at full respect the various ways of development of these regions has to dominate according to which the final road of history conducts to rapprochement, and finally to formation of uniform world civilization.