Academicus International Scientific Journal

Title:
Culture and Counter-culture  

Author(s):
Prof.Dr. Franco Ferrarotti
ferrarotti.franco@gmail.com
Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founder "Critica Sociologica"
0000-0003-4964-5371

Abstract:

A curious paradox must be faced at the very outset: nothing is perhaps more culturally inclined than the various counter-culture movements. In other words, writing and working against the prevailing culture amount to an essentially cultural enterprise. Culture seems to be inescapable. A supposedly dying declining or simply inadequate or wrong culture is usually criticized and fought against by a culture that is in a hurry to take its place. To use the famous formulation of Vilfredo Pareto, one could say that the whole human history is nothing but the ongoing struggle of a “repressed “elite against a power elite through a variety of means which can, however, be summarized and symbolized, as it were, by two animals, the lion and the fox, that is to say force and shrewdness.


Keywords:
culture; counter-culture; global approach; individualism; humanistic values;

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Presented: April 2014
Published: December 2014, Volume

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