IDEÁL FLEXIBILITY A PARADOXY KULTU MLADOSTI

• Authors: Šulavíková Blanka

Title variants

EN

Ideal of flexibility and the paradoxes of the cult of juvenility

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

'Flexibility' becomes today the fundamental challenge of a life. The period of immaturity and a young man/woman without any consistent system of the values and the fixed priorities become the demand of our times, something that is expected. Due to the influence of the ideal of flexibility the cult of juvenility causes a specific polarization among young people. On one pole there are the ambitious individuals, which in their desires of a success and the high living standards see themselves as unrestraint by any traditional values or the ethical canons. On the other pole there are those rootless young people boycotting the world of money and commercial show, who, veiled by a nihilistic film of mist, are wandering throughout the world. Very often they become victims of various forms of addiction. While the first 'are surfing on the waves of demand', the latter 'are surfing in the wind'. And what is in between? It is the authoress' hope, that there are the most numerous groups, which aim at an authentic life conception and its fulfillment with the things and relationships having a far deeper meaning then that of virtuous creations or balancing on popular 'board made of laminate'.

Keywords

EN

FLEXIBILITY; JUVENILITY; LIVING STANDARDS; VALUES SYSTEM

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 441-453
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Šulavíková Blanka

• Kabinet sociálnej a biologickej komunikácie SAV, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• B. Sulavikova, Kabinet sociálnej a biologickej komunikácie SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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06SKAAAA01683650