Culturalism

Culturalism is a concept in philosophy and sociology originally developed by the Polish-American philosopher and sociologist, Florian Znaniecki to describe the central importance of culture as an organizing force in human affairs. The term was introduced in his book Cultural Reality (1919) in English and later translated into Polish as kulturalizm. Znaniecki had introduced a similar concept in earlier Polish language publications, which he described as humanism (humanizm). The same concept is also occasionally referred to as new humanism or Znaniecki's humanism.

Znaniecki's culturalism was based on philosophies and theories of Matthew Arnold (Culture and Anarchy), Friedrich Nietzsche (voluntarism), Henri Bergson (creative evolutionism), Wilhelm Dilthey (philosophy of life), William James, John Dewey (pragmatism) and Ferdinand C. Schiller (humanism).

Znaniecki was critical of a number of then-prevalent philosophical viewpoints: intellectualism,idealismrealismnaturalism and rationalism. He was also critical of irrationalism and intuitionism.

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