Closing the Book of Culture

Document from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, course: Interkulturelles Management, language: English, abstract: The title "Closing the book of Culture" implies the end of a process; the process of reading the book of culture and to behave and act on the basis of the contents of the book. The contents are either fully understood and the book can be shelved to be reopened occasionally for purposes such as educational ones, for example, or, alternatively, the paradigm contained in the book has been transcended and the contents have become partly or fully obsolete. The present exposé can be considered as a process of returning for a moment to the old paradigm in order to connect it to the new, supposedly more advanced one.