Komunikacja czy kontemplacja? Dwie odpowiedzi na tragikomiczną kondycję nowoczesności
Communication or contemplation? Two answers for the tragicomic condition of modernity

Author(s): Jakub Kloc-Konkołowicz
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: comic quality; communication; contemplation; modernity; tragedy
Summary/Abstract: The essay attempts to explain the Hegel’s metaphor of modernity as a tragicomedy. Understanding of aesthetic categories of tragedy and comic quality by Hegel is explained. Then the views of J. Habermas and W. Benjamin are presented as two types of answer for the “tragicomic” condition of modernity suggested by Hegel. Both views try to save consensual “objectivism” of experience, defining the condition of a modern subject as a conflict between the possibilities of tragic sublimity and comic agreement.

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