Politics of time : dynamics of identity in post-communist Poland / / Leszek Koczanowicz

• Autore: Koczanowicz Leszek
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.209438/09049
• Soggetto topico: Group identity - Poland; Social psychology - Poland; Post-communism - Poland
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Political time or the past as a political issue. Memory of politics, politics of memory: the politics of the past in post-totalitarian Poland ; Mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion ; Liberating the future from the past: liberating the past from the future ; The politics of political biography: self-realization, loyalty, and political change ; Civil society as an ethical challenge ; Life as simulacrum: Stanislaw Llem's science fiction -- Social time or the ontology of expectations. Ontology of expectations ; Genealogy of expectations ; The myth of the unity of the nation ; Marxism as a way of life: the failure of an impossible project ; The mythologies of solidarity -- Perspectives on time: from philosophy to anthropology. The problem of time in pragmatism and phenomenology ; Time, dialogue, and society ; Time and social practices ; Politics of memory, politics of time -- Epilogue: what has happened to us? The rise of post-post-communism. The emergence of post-post-communism or populist post-communism ; What is post-post-communism? ; Democracy against democracy or who has hijacked the common background? ; Possible scenarios and two conservatisms ; New tribalism, post-post-communism, and the politics of time ; Epilogue-supplement -- App. Post-communism and pop music: annihilation or restoration of memory in disco-polo. Two views on disco-polo: intellectuals' "horror vacui" and the nation's hope ; "All Poles" or what is disco-polo? ; The glorious past and the Slavic soul ; In opposition to the west ; Disco-polo and the dilemmas of Polish past and present.
• Sommario/riassunto: What has really happened in Poland since the election of 2005? After such spectacular events as the practice of lustration and the questioning of solidarity with the European Union, one has to ask: what is the nature of this newly emerging society? As with many of the recent developments in former communist countries that seem to be mysterious and irrational, the situation and ensuing problems are complex and the answers neither trivial nor easy. This book, by the distinguished Polish philosopher, addresses these complexities through the role of the communist past in post-communist Poland. It
• Titolo autorizzato: Politics of time
• ISBN: 0-85745-045-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820046703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II