Postmodernistyczne patologie w socjokulturowych refleksjach końca XX wieku
Postmodern Pathologies in Social and Cultural Thought at the End of 20th Century

Author(s): Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the presented article is to select specific cultural pathological changes from theoretical reflection of the end of the 20th century, to show the picture of the human being entangled in the net of technological and social changes influencing the process of reception and understanding art and everyday reality. Taking into account the methodology defined in this way we focus on the dynamics and wide range of selected key problems. The issue of the disease is treated here metaphorically as a kind of symptomatic disfunction, abandoning the accepted ways of conduct and world perception. Consequently, we perceive as pathologies such social and cultural phenomena as “communication ecstasy”, “identity bulimia”, the problem of consumption, reification, carnavalisation noticeable in all aspects of culture etc.

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