O problemie cenzury społecznej na przykładzie recepcji twórczości Józefa Mackiewicza
On the Problem of Social Censorship on the Example of the Reception of the Work of Józef Mackiewicz

Summary/Abstract: Artistic work is subject to a series of external pressures that constitute and structure the field of artistic licentia poetica. Apart from the phenomenon of official censorship, which is widely recognized and typical for some political groups, the phenomenon of social (unofficial) censorship should be distinguished. Censorship in the official sense is defined as, preventive or offensive, control of the content of acts of communication made by specialized state institutions within the framework of the government’s information policy. Social censorship also constitutes a fragment of the social control apparatus and focuses on the regulation of the communication process, but its disponent is not the government but the specific social circles. For this reason, its actions, although they may be the fulfillment of the official censorship goals, are not delegated by it on the basis of institutional coercion. The author deals with the functioning of social censorship on examples drawn from literary life, especially the turmoil around the person and the work of Józef Mackiewicz.

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