Different Identities and Comparative Cultures

The aim of the course is to reflect about intra-culturality and interculturality, different identities and comparison and above all inter-intra-cultural dialogue (with particular attention to the thought of Raimon Panikkar). They are two fundamental pillars of our civil and social life, but also of the inner, ethical and spiritual life of our time. Intraculturality and interculturality seem remarkably indispensable in this period of anthropological, cosmic (global warming) and pandemic crisis. The crisi is not mostly economic, but cultural and spiritual. Technology is not a neutral culture, but situated, and easily becomes technocracy. Intraculturality is a creative and critical movement back to its roots (here in the first place Western and European roots) whereas interculturality is a movement open towards other world outlooks, different from our own: firstly the East (although all wisdom-based traditions are entitled to give their contribution). Interculturality is the discovery of "the other", of otherness, that becomes deep experience of "revelation" on the others but also on myself. We need to open ourselves up to other cultures and other cosmovisions (for example also of the children, of the art-principle etc.)