English Issue 40/2024

In this issue, we shed a little light on the interplay of cultures. Even if there are forces that suggest that cultures develop separately and distinctly from each other, a look into the distant and more recent past shows the opposite. Culture has always been a process of transformation and metamorphosis, of decay and renewal. Above all, however, it has always been a process of encounter, often experienced through finding something of ourselves in the culture of another.