Culture vs Post-Culture: Traditional Values and Modern Culture

Abstract. The present article is concerned with the problem of human identity transformation in the modern and postmodern culture. Types of secular culture based on principles of rationality and creativity are considered in it. Transformations of these concepts concerned with cultural evolution in the postmodern period are analyzed. The author demonstrates that the concept of freedom plays a leading role in cultural process. The role of virtual culture in the postmodern period and factors which make individuals immerse themselves in cyberspace are analyzed. The author makes a conclusion that the crisis of culture is connected with the attempt to eliminate the human being as an active participant of cultural activity.

Key words. Culture, culturology, postmodernism, post-culture, human being as an active participant of cultural activity, rationality, creativity, freedom, virtual culture

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[4] Ibid.
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[8] Ibid.