21世纪文化研究展望与人文学沟通

Abstract

The scientific paradigm of Korean society has shifted rapidly with the spread of cyber digital culture since the 21st century began. Namely, the diffusion of post-modernism and the advent of liberalism and the decline of transformation movement demolished the conventional methods of classifying cultures and the basic humanities and humanism have been endangered, and a new term of cultural industry made an appearance in concert with restructuring of universities. If we say that popular culture and the humanities are positioned in the dialectical relationship and that mutual communication is a prerequisite for the development of scholarship and culture, the current situations are very alarming. Under these conditions, the present paper makes an attempt of communication between philosophy and arts from the perspective of 'culture'. It tries to restore mutually relational communication between sciences, arts and the general public by criticizing traditional ideal aspects of the humanities and changing direction towards 'lower places' to appeal to ordinary people. This means it aims to objectively examine philosophical discourse inherent in culture and direction of cultural policies at the level of sciences and the general public rather than to unconditionally refuse cultural industry which is required in consumer society. Therefore, the current study will critically explore transformative processes Korean society went through until now and features of cultural change based on conceptual review of ‘culture’, and analyze a traditional ideal view of the humane studies towards sciences, limitations of scientific disciplines, elitism inherent in studies of arts within institutional education systems, and subsequent communication gap between sciences, arts and society and an issue of a crisis of sciences in themselves. In addition, it aims to examine social efficacy of culture and its correlation with scientific development and seek the way where sciences and arts coexist through discussing scientific problems and direction faced by Korean society currently, and scientific and artistic activities which have been displayed newly since the 1990s.