Rozumienie teraźniejszości
Understanding the present

Author(s): Grzegorz Hansen
Subject(s): 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: the spectator; the present; validity of judgments; impartiality; emancipation
Summary/Abstract: Th e concept of uncommitted observation is being presented as a condition of understandingreality. In the case of social research the most diffi cult subject of understandingis the present. Th e essay by Foucault on Kant and the Enlightenment has been used asa starting point for analysing the concept of understanding of the present. From theanalysis of the context of the present events we move towards the conditions of claims of judgments being made to universal validity. Th e considerations are continued in thecase of observing the phenomenon of the pursuit of emancipation.

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