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Three Notions of Meta-Culture

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Burszta W. J.
Przegląd Kulturoznawczy
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2006
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vol. 1
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issue 1
22-30
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The article analyses a fascinating phenomenon of a meta-cultural interpretation of social events, which is emerging in the contemporary world. The author first presents two categories of 'culture of Cultures', which function as premises for a meta-cultural debate concerning the contemporary life: a meta-culture of similarities (or modernity), and a meta-culture of differences. Then, he confronts the two cultures with a third category, self-interpreting entity, created by a meta-culture of newness which is completely independent of an anthropological notion of culture (a source of the first two categories of meta-cultures).
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Cultural Sciences vs. Literature. The Case of Anthropology

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Burszta W. J.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2005
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issue 4(94)
41-55
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The article discusses two types of relations between cultural sciences on the one hand and literature and literary scholarship on the other, focusing especially on the issue of kinship between our contemporary cultural anthropology as a meaning-establishing activity, and, creation of presented worlds in literature. As an example of a peculiar 'consonance' of cultural science and creative literary work, the current of English-language post-colonial literature and the so-called multicultural prose of today, stemming from the former, have been made subject to closer analysis. The author argues that both domains, i.e. anthropology and literature, mutually explain each other, constituting reciprocal interpretative contexts as well as a source of sharing experiences reflecting the compound identity situation of present-day humans.
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THE METACULTURAL WARS AND THE METACULTURE OF NEWNESS

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Burszta W. J.
Sprawy Narodowościowe
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2008
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issue 32
7-21
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The article concentrates on metalinguistic uses of the notion of 'culture' in contemporary debates on collective identity. The author claims that metacultural consciousness shapes the horizon of contemporary social imagery, in the sense given to this notion by Charles Taylor. The way of using the word and concept of culture in the context of the metaculture of modernity and the metaculture of difference is then contrasted with the phenomenon of a self-referential and self-interpreting unity which the author entitles the metaculture of newness or simultaneity. A slogan provided by an advertising campaign of the clothing company Esprit, 'The World Is Our Culture', describes accurately the global sense of its ambitions.
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NATIONALISM AS METONYMICAL THINKING

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Burszta W. J., Jaskulowski K.
Sprawy Narodowościowe
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2005
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issue 27
7-21
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The first part of the article concerns two well-known theories of nationalism, modernist theory and ethno-symbolic theory, connected with the names of Ernest Gellner and Anthony D. Smith. Discussing the specific features of the two approaches, the authors analyze the strong and weak points from the context of a third approach to nationalism, i.e. as a basic plane for the shaping of subjectivized human identity. A 'nationalist theory of nation' is a specific way of thinking about apparently natural ties linking social communities and their territory and state. The article shows how nationalist thinking uses metonyms and metaphors in order to create a mythical picture of a nation as a territorially-rooted community of values. Nationalism is attractive also because it allows a co-existence of metaphorical and metonymical figures which help intensify group identifications.
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