CHOZA, JACINTO
Until the twentieth century it could be thought that culture andlanguage were not subjects of philosophy, or that they weredispensable subjects. Starting from the linguistic turn and theuniversalization of hermeneutics, not only language and culture haveoccupied pre-eminent places in this field, but they have even becomethe key themes of philosophy. Or, the philosophy of language andculture have become the first philosophy. Without the security offered by the grands récits of history, Gerhart Schöder maintains, it isabout reaching a new point of view from which the visual field of what happens can be obtained. In the globalization process lies a need for the total. The actuality of the concept of culture lies in the factthat the concept seems to offer it. The weakness of the concept liesprecisely in the fact that it now encompasses the totality of thereal. Culture has become, in the current discussion, a necessarymedium for the totality of human thinking and acting.