Интеркултурални дијалози: културе Истока – увод

ДОИ: https://doi.org/10.2298/GEI2401013S УДК: 39:7/8(5)

Сажетак

The starting point in intercultural studies is always the culture of the Other, or as Appiah puts it in “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers”, the culture of the Stranger, as well as the desire for cosmopolitanism, which prompts a critical reexamination of existing and implicit assumptions or schemas through which we shape our cultural identities, values, and knowledge. In this sense, intercultural studies are always development of communicative skills in complex conceptual translation, producing the expansion of the field of human discourse (Geertz) within the research interstice that Levi-Strauss calls the liminal anthropological field, marked by the departure from one culture and the approach to another.

The special issue “Intercultural Dialogues” brings together several authors who analyze and interpret Eastern cultures from different angles. Therefore, the papers presented here are not merely descriptions of selected aspects of Eastern cultures, but rather contain multicultural interspaces and links, providing complex understanding of some of their basic concepts or symbols that we are otherwise accustomed to.