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Postmodernizm jako kryzys mentalny

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Igoriewicz T. W.

Przestrzenie Teorii

2020

issue 33

409-417

The article is devoted to the crisis situation of postmodernism. The author assumes that the crisis of postmodernism is a historical process phenomenon and therefore inevitable. The postmodernism of the last decades of the 20th century is presented as most probably the last crisis of the post-rhetoric formation in its culture-creating productivity. The author believes that the recessive reconstruction of the dominant role of authority’s discourse with its imperative, legislative and regulatory competencies, or neo-rhetorical breakthrough of the convergent mentality leading to the domination in people’s spiritual lives as more or less likely scenarios for the further development of the historical situation together with the surging globalism of the human civilization may prove to be universally significant. Moreover, the author focuses on the media tools used to carry out each discursive formation. Those tools open up unique possibilities for executing the neo-rhetorical impulse towards the universal solidarization of life.

Too Good For Sociology

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Blackshaw T.

Polish Sociological Review

2006

vol. 155

issue 3

293-306

The point of this article is on the one hand to make sense of Bauman’s merely ghostly presence in sociology, and, on the other, to demonstrate why sociology itself (unlike Bauman) is incapable of achieving a sociological imagination made to the measure of a world that is modern in a different way than it was in the past. Before providing the justification for choosing Michel Foucault’s idea of the discursive formation as the basis for my critique, I mobilize some ideas from Jacques Derrida and Jacques Rancie`re to suggest that sociology’s Platonic ontology carries with it a ‘national’ discourse that is ‘contemporary only to itself’ and discuss what this implies for its relationship with the dead-living spectre of Zyg-geist Bauman. Thereafter, I critically discuss sociology’s mythological practice and its game-culture before offering an insight into the ways and means of Bauman’s liquid modern alternative which has its hauntological basis in the ‘the privileged space of incertitude’ found in literature. I conclude with the observation that what we have in Bauman is an authentic and ethically responsible thinker who despite imagining sociology as his natural intellectual home is really much too good for that place.

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