Stavtseva, O. I. Dialogue of Cultures Against the Background of Mutli Culturalism Crisis

Abstract: The article contains the summary of the XII International Likhachev Readings held on May 17-18 2012 in St. Petersburg University of Professional Unions. The Readings were devoted to the transformation processes in all spheres of culture as well as various aspects of globalization. The author of the article pays much attention to the critics of the multi culturalism conception, the problem of world unity and cultural diversity, combination of economics and culture, anthropological crisis of the consumer society and integration processes. The main idea uniting all these topics is the concept of cultural dialogue as the grounds for harmonic and efficient interaction of cultures at a modern stage.

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