Kultūros provaizdžiai

ENIn this article the types of man’s cultural activity are being investigated and an attempt in being made to describe the similarities and the differences among these types. The culture as such is described as the man’s contact with the otherness, i. e. with the reality - beyond - the man, or the transcendent reality. The three types of the ot herness are differentiated: the otherness - beyond - the man, which in traditionally called the nature; the otherness in the man himself, which is being interpreted as the void of the Ego, or the nothingness, revealing itself in “my” consciousness; and the otherness of the mass of cultural meanings accumulated in the course of history, the “meaning” otherness, which is also alien to “this” individual. According to these three types of otherness the three types of culture are being differentiated: the culture of bearing, the culture of creation, and the culture of consumption or annihilation. An attempt has been undertaken to describe the main features of all these types. The interaction among these types and the dynamics of their relative influence in the life of the contemporary human society has been shown.