The “Archaeology” of Popular Culture: Common Sense and the Past
The “Archaeology” of Popular Culture: Common Sense and the Past
Author(s): Marek KaźmierczakSubject(s): Cultural history, Political history, Social history, Social Theory, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: common sense; memory; communication; popular culture; oblivion;
Summary/Abstract: This paper demonstrates the influence of common sense on the perception of facts from the past. In order to understand the mechanisms of reduction, in-strumentalisation and banalisation of the Holocaust in popular culture, we need to understand the influence of common sense on the understanding and mis-understanding of the past, represented in this paper by the testimonies of the massacre of 1500 Jews in the forest of Niesłusz-Rudzica.The main premise of the paper is that common sense is the dominant form of knowledge and the description of reality, which is reproduced by the mech-anisms at function in popular culture. This paper is an example of ‘archaeolog-ical’ work in this context.
Journal: Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 24
- Page Range: 85-115
- Page Count: 31
- Language: English
