Zum Gegenstand der anthropozentrischen Kulturwissenschaft

The present paper aims at defining, on the background of the institutionalization of Cultural Studies at Polish and German Universities and the animated discussion about its status as a new autonomous scientific discipline, the specific object, the goals and the methods of Cultural Science („Kulturwissenschaft") from the point of view of F. Grucza's Anthropocentric Theory of Language. According to the assumptions of this theory „Culture", like „Language", has to be to considered in the scientific investigation primarily as a set of specific human properties founded through a particular competence (knowledge and ability) which enable the subject to realize cultural expressions (texts, works, symbols, rituals, styles, forms of behavior); these „realizations" are also the object of the Anthropocentric Theory of Culture, anyway always in relationship to the acting subject. Anthropocentric Theory of Culture aims at investigating its objects in a diachronic and synchronic way and attempts to gain anagnostic, diagnostic and prognostic explicative and descriptive knowledge.