Friedrich Hölderlin or Emanuele Severino? The Sacral Dimension of Nature in the Context of Modern Technology by Andrzej Kobyliński

“…Delsol, on the other hand, points out that throughout Western culture we are now witnessing the birth of a new religion of nature, which is a modern form of ancient paganism. …”
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On the Criticism of Takano Yotaro's 'Japanese Collectivism' as an illusion by Alireza Rezaee

“…The business culture in Japan stresses teamwork or collectivism, which ranks in stark contrast to the sense of individualism that stems from individual liberty and freedom espoused by western culture. Japanese culture places high importance on teamwork based on their philosophy of “wa”, or group harmony that holds the value of the greater good, as more important than valuing individual needs.…”
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Reconhecimento e desigualdade: da ética da autenticidade à cultura do novo capitalismo by Fabrício Maciel

“…So, I try to analyze how the flexible culture of the new capitalism, schematized by Richard Sennett, mainly in his books The corrosion of character (2006) and The culture of the new capitalism (2015), may be the main contemporary distortion of the Western culture of authenticity. In the final part, I try to show how the culture of this new capitalism becomes a fake moral horizon, by promising a path to self-fulfillment and recognition that is false. …”
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Corps (é)conduits : La construction d’un regard-machine dans Crash (1996) et Cosmopolis (2012) de David Cronenberg by Guilhem Billaudel

“…Attachment, dependency and eroticism as represented here are but the outcome of the way film history has given an increasingly complex and central focus to the car, paralleling its ever-growing fetishization within Western culture. When narrating the quest for the perfect car-crash in a group of fin de siècle fetishists or the physical and mental dissolution of a trader locked in his limousine, Cronenberg always makes the car become more than a prop or a means of transportation. …”
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EKOLOGINĖ ETIKA IR SUBJEKTO PROBLEMA by Česlovas Kalenda

“…The objective German idealism of the 19th century overcame the categorical alienation of man from nature, while the philosophy of postmodernism disclosed it as a Western culture’s way of forcing human will upon nature, opening the perspective of subject’s decentration. …”
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EKOLOGINĖ ETIKA IR SUBJEKTO PROBLEMA by Česlovas Kalenda

“…The objective German idealism of the 19th century overcame the categorical alienation of man from nature, while the philosophy of postmodernism disclosed it as a Western culture’s way of forcing human will upon nature, opening the perspective of subject’s decentration. …”
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Nurturing the Growing Generation’s Values in the Process of Socio-Cultural Transformation of Society by Asbi Khaleb

“…Modernization, the Arab society undergoes, is influenced by the constant contacts with the Jew- ish nation representing in its majority the western culture, the other influenc- ing factors being technologies and mass media. …”
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When spatial agency bias and the advantage of the first mention are in contradiction: Evidence from Czech, German, and Spanish by Anna Marklová, Renate Delucchi Danhier

“… Evidence from Art (History), perceptual psychology, and (psycho-)linguistics support the claim that in Western culture (or rather within left-to-right writing languages), people depict or visualize more important or salient figures to the left. …”
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The Development and Competition of Cinemas in Jakarta, 1950-1966 by Ghesa Ririan Mitalia

“…In the mid of the surging nationalism after the revolutionary, the western culture had entered and become trend among young people. …”
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The "Arab Spring": New Mechanisms of Change of Authoritarian Political Regimes by E. A. Antyukhova

“…The overall system of methods used during the "the Arab spring" indicates that the mechanism of overthrowing authoritarian regimes and its technologies came from Western culture and were borrowed by Arab activists.…”
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The Critical Analysis of Cultural Values in American English File Textbook Series by Ali Derakhshan

“…Moreover, results revealed that these instructional materials are filled with cultural values unique to the Western world, the most prevalent of which include girlfriend-boyfriend relationship, consumerism, lack of studying, Western music, artifacts, lack of trust between the couples, rate of divorce and break-up, and inculcation of Western culture. It is concluded that textbooks are carriers of cultural values that not only transfer knowledge but also inculcate the cultural values of the native speakers of that language. …”
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Princess power: Deconstructing the influence of popular culture on local traditions in a novel by Muhammad Nasir, Rahayu Puji Haryanti, Desri Maria Sumbayak

“…Sasson’s narrative highlights how global influences, particularly Western culture, shape perceptions and interactions, enriching yet complicating societal norms. …”
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Publishing Trends of Informal Lithuanian Youth Publications –Fanzines – at the End of the 20th Century and the Beginning of the 21st Century by Aušra Kairaitytė-Užupė

“…Paper fanzines started to be created at the end of the 20th century and became popular in the 1990s, spreading Western culture ideas and changing the political, and socio-cultural environment in Lithuania along with technological copying and reproduction possibilities. …”
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Problema protocronismului. Precizări by Edgar Papu

“…His idea about the Romanian aesthetic forms anticipating or preparing currents, motives or procedures that were later to be experienced and dealt with by the Western culture was published twice before (1977 and 1989), but this one is the first uncensored text diffused after the fall of the communist regime in Romania. …”
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and its legalisation in Africa: Insights from tertiary-level students in Ghana. by Francis Acquah, Charles Owusu-Aduomi Botchwey, Prince Owusu Adoma, Emmanuel Kumah

“…Their reasons included the health implications of LGBTI and related activities (63%), cultural and societal values (62%), religious reasons (54%), and western culture (25%). Also, almost half of the respondents (49%) held that health related perceptions about LGBTI have little or no empirical basis. …”
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The Contemporary Critical Reception of Walter Pater: Retrospective and Proleptical Views by Geoffrey Sadock

“…By showing the shift from hostile modernism to a more open and inclusive conception of his literary persona, I explain why Pater is no longer dismissed as precieux and inconsequential by the guardians of High Culture (such as Eliot) but is recognized as an original who synthesized personal preoccupations and aesthetic/critical response to various art forms, nature, and persons. Since Western culture no longer upholds the restrictions under which Pater labored to define his Weltanschauung, his genius in the use of suggestion—association, transparency, diaphaneity, masochistic delay—has become more recognizable. …”
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ON THE THIN PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND ITS THICKENINGS by Zenonas Norkus

“…The concept of relative pratical rationality is thick enough to assimilate one of the most powerful intuitions concerning rationality, characteristic for the modern Western culture and proclaimed as early as in 1486 by Pico della Mirandola in his famous "Oratio de hominis dignitate". …”
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ON THE THIN PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND ITS THICKENINGS by Zenonas Norkus

“…The concept of relative pratical rationality is thick enough to assimilate one of the most powerful intuitions concerning rationality, characteristic for the modern Western culture and proclaimed as early as in 1486 by Pico della Mirandola in his famous "Oratio de hominis dignitate". …”
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"Spirit in a world without spirit": Foucault's interpretation of the Iranian Revolution and resistance to western modernity by Urošević Milan

“…Thus, during the 1980s, Foucault's work involves exploring various models of subjectivity in the history of Western culture. The second influence of the Iranian Revolution can be observed in Foucault's renewed focus on the concept and phenomenon of the Enlightenment.…”
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Displacing the Christian Theodicy of Hell: Yi Kwangsu’s Search for the Willful Individual in Colonial Modernity by Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Mengxiao Huang

“…But the co-existence of the omnipotent God and unrepentant sinners is not always questioned in the religiosity of hell in non-Western cultures. The Christian imaginary of hell in non-Western cultures often demarcates the question of God’s sovereignty from the sufferings of sinners in the problem of hell. …”
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