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Propheta in patria sua
Propheta in patria sua

Author(s): Katarzyna Chmielewska
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Igor Stokfiszewski; Contemporary Polish culture; Aesthetics; Postmodernism; Postpolitics; Posttradition

Summary/Abstract: Review: Igor Stokfiszewski Zwrot polityczny [‘A political turn’], Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2009. Stokfiszewski’s title refers to a change in Polish social and cultural life, namely the process by which liberal-democratic paradigm (which in aesthetics corresponds with postmodernism, post-politics, post-tradition, and the ideology of consensus) comes to be replaced by a perspective of universalism, as well as a return to community. Stokfiszewski’s work functions as a political manifesto. However, Chmielewska questions the scope, status, and effectiveness of the transformation discussed by Stokfiszewski, as well as the diachrony into which he inscribes his discourse of a paradigm shift.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 239-243
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish