Pole symboliczne, przemieszanie, niewczesność. Humanistyka jako wybór między pamięcią a nadzieją
The Symbolic Field, Mixing, Untimeliness: The humanities as a Choice between Memory and Hope

Summary/Abstract: This article positions itself within the history of ideas. In several European countries the 1960s saw the beginning of an exploration of being ashamed of the previous generation’s crimes. In a violent revolt against the past, young people in Germany, France and the United States displayed their shame as a response to their parents’ guilt. The ability to feel shame became a measure for a new kind of pride. However, over the following thirty years the practice of being proud of one’s ability to be ashamed for one’s parents guilt came to be ritualized. It lost its foundation in a common future. Today this kind of pride for shame clashes with and is rejected by a desire for pride without shame.

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