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Концепция перемен, наделенная именем демократической трансформации, основывалась на трех базовых идеях – идее гражданского общества, идее свободного рынка, а также идее солидарности. Они стали фундаментом мифа основания польской демократии. Основой, как вскоре выяснилось, очень недолговечной. Механизмы свободного рынка и политической борьбы за власть привели к очень быстрому разрушению ценностей, связанных с идеалами гражданского общества и солидарности. На смену концепции взаимопонимания и содействия пришло беспардонная конкуренция. Разочарование и фрустрация погрузили польскую демократию в пучину ресентимента. Провалилась также идея рыночного саморегулирования. Польская демократия оказалась в пустоте, между полюсами ресентимента и наивного оптимизма присоединения, связанного с программой интеграции.
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Three fundamental ideas: civil society, the free market and solidarity lay at the root of the concept behind the changes defined as a democratic transformation. These ideas became the underpinning of the founding myth of Polish democracy, an underpinning which proved to be highly liable. Free market mechanisms and the political struggle for power were at the root of the erosion of values linked to the ideals of civil society and solidarity. The notions of mutual recognition and cooperation gave way to fierce competition. Disillusion and frustration plunged Polish democracy into a torrent of resentment. The idea itself of market self-regulation collapsed. Polish democracy found itself in a void, between the extremes of resentment and naïve accession-optimism, activated by the integration program. A deficit of symbolic capital thwarted the creation of a political communication model conducive to opening a genuine debate. Instead, an image-based politics emerged as a substitute of effective communication, representing a swing in activity away from debate and towards gestures and platitudes.
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The article offers a critical insight into conceptions and ideas guiding the process of reforming a Polish world of science, which was initiated in 2010. It concentrates not as much on a process understood as an institutional change, as on hopes and expectations underpinning the reforms, framing its inner logic. The article points to the decisive role of the influence which a dogmatist approach – rooted in a neoliberal doctrine imposing a narrow understanding of a social harmony asresulting from a successful operation of free market machinery – had on a whole undertaking, giving the reform its sense and meaning. It also brings to focus a conflict between an academic tradition exposing the symbolism of truth and the neoliberal system of values promoting notions of productivity and efficiency.
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The article confronts key notions framing our understanding of modernity, such as rationality, knowledge, freedom and democracy, opening the space of a critical interpretation undermining the superficial take on modernity as an embodiment of integrity, putting together the noble principles of knowledge and liberty. Drawing on the thought of Max Weber, exploring the symbolism of his metaphor of “iron cage of rationality”, the article emphasizes a paradoxical sense of the experience of modernity. In concluding statements it defies and calls into question a standard reading of democracy, viewed as an embodiment of freedom and rational self-definition.
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Three fundamental ideas: civil society, the free market and solidarity lay at the root of the concept behind the changes defined as a democratic transformation.
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Three fundamental ideas: civil society, the free market and solidarity lay at the root of the concept behind the changes defined as a democratic transformation. These ideas became the underpinning of the founding myth of Polish democracy, an underpinning which proved to be highly liable. Free market mechanisms and the political struggle for power were at the root of the erosion of values linked to the ideals of civil society and solidarity. The notions of mutual recognition and cooperation gave way to fierce competition. Disillusion and frustration plunged Polish democracy into a torrent of resentment. The idea itself of market self-regulation collapsed. Polish democracy found itself in a void, between the extremes of resentment and naïve accession-optimism, activated by the integration program. A deficit of symbolic capital thwarted the creation of a political communication model conducive to opening a genuine debate. Instead, an image-based politics emerged as a substitute of effective communication, representing a swing in activity away from debate and towards gestures and platitudes.
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Uniwersytet Jana Baszkiewicza

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