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2023 | 78 | 238-252

Article title

Podmiotowość megalotymiczna jako efekt populistycznych strategii narracyjnych

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Megalothymic Subjectivity as a Result of Populist Narrative Strategies

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PL
Artykuł podejmuje problematykę zjawiska podmiotowości megalotymicznej, ujawniającej się jako efekt pośredni systemowej słabości współczesnej demokracji liberalnej. Na przykładzie strategii narracyjnych Donalda Trumpa autor wskazuje, jak populizm kreuje w wyborcach wyobrażoną rzeczywistość spisku, zagrożenia i utraty ludzkiej wartości. Proces komunikowania populistycznego przybiera formę opowieści z nadchodzącym rozstrzygnięciem w postaci zwycięstwa dobra lub zła. Wyborca podlegający takiemu kształtowaniu postrzega siebie jednocześnie jako element znaczącej i silnej zbiorowości i jako ofiarę wrogich działań polityków na scenie krajowej i międzynarodowej. Znajdując się w takiej pozycji, wyborca zaczyna przejawiać postawy wskazujące na chęć odzyskania utraconej rzekomo podmiotowości, czego skrajnym przejawem był atak na amerykański Kapitol 6 stycznia 2021 roku.
EN
The article addresses the phenomenon of megalothymic subjectivity as an indirect effect of the systemic weakness of modern liberal democracy. By using Donald Trump’s narrative strategies as an example, the author shows how populism creates in voters’ minds an imagined reality of conspiracy, danger, and loss of human decency. The process of populist communication takes the form of a story with an upcoming decisive moment, the victory of good or evil. A voter being shaped in such manner sees himself both as a part of a significant and strong community and as a victim of hostile actions of politicians on the national and international scene. The voter in such a position begins to manifest attitudes indicating a desire to regain his supposedly lost subjectivity, the extreme manifestation of which was the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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78

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238-252

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published
2023

Contributors

  • Uniwersytet Gdański

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Publication order reference

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki
25805891

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_15804_athena_2023_78_13
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