Koniec mitu Zachodu & Koniec mitu Wschodu
The end of the myth of the West and the end of the myth of the East

Author(s): Jarosław Kuisz
Subject(s): 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: West; myth of the West; transformation of the political system; law; society; politics
Summary/Abstract: Th e article presents an attempt at describing and analysing the post-communist mythof the West. During the period of the People’s Republic a conceptual complex wasformed which contributed to the multilayer fascination with the culture of the Westerncountries, in particular the Western European countries and the United States of America.Th is conceptual complex performed various functions in the social reality, in particulara legitimizing, mobilizing and symbolical function, and thus exerted a signifi cantinfl uence on the process of transformation from communism to liberal democracy. Inthe conclusions, the author emphasizes the possibility of describing and analysing the“mirror refl ection” of the presented phenomenon, which is the post-communist mythof the East.

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