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The fundamental value that has been brought by postmodernism as a general cultural phenomenon is pluralism. In philosophy, it is implemented as plurality of opinions and attitudes. In the art, it is plurality of styles. Jean-Francois Lyotard showed differences between the modern and postmodern science, namely in the manner of their legitimization. Modern legitimization through the great stories is overcome by post-modern advances in science and technology, accompanied by insurmountable differences and paralogies. ...

The study focuses on academic rituals as part of university culture in Romanian universities. It also tries to underline the role of academic rituals as communication instruments for the universities, both public and private. The latter category adopted the common ceremonies for academic life to gain legitimacy and recognition as part of the higher education area. The analysis focuses on a series of rituals identified in the Romanian universities, mainly the opening of the academic year, the graduation ceremony, a...

This article presents the problem of postmodernism in the Contemporary Society and what is the impact for the human life and for the Orthodox Church. Through a sort of affordability backed by the thirst for crazy survival and consumption, the postmodern society promotes a number of taboos that depersonalizes the human nature in its existential meaning. Drugs, exacerbated eroticism, pathological personality disorders, are the result of the lack of an alternative. Therefore, the principal role of the Christianity is...