Open AccessThe Cultural Heritage of Interculturalism
Author(s) -
Martin Q. Peterson
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
nordicum-mediterraneum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1670-6242
DOI - 10.33112/nm.10.2.6
Subject(s) - cultural heritage , enlightenment , history , antique , conflation , interculturalism , aesthetics , environmental ethics , anthropology , ancient history , sociology , art , archaeology , multiculturalism , philosophy , epistemology , pedagogy
The article traces the cultural heritage of inter-cultural contexts, which have had profound impact over long time. It takes its departure in antique and culturally complex environments in the eastern Mediterranean. One millennium later corresponding inter-cultural conditions are explored in the western part of the Mediterranean. Both cases demonstrated their wide and long lasting influences on posterity. The cultural heritage implied the deep effects of cross-fertilization and ensuing cultural enrichment as the conflation of several well-endowed cultures took place. A similar, more powerful outcome followed the Radical Enlightenment in Leiden around 1650s and in Vienna some centuries later.