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UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA IN LIQUID-MODERN TIMES (Utopie i dystopie czasów plynnej nowoczesnosci)

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Bauman Z.
Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
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2009
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vol. 8
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issue 4(25)
57-74
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'Lumieres de l'utopie', Bronislaw Baczko's magnum opus among Baczko's numerous magnificent works, deserves to be described as the 'prolegomena to all future study of utopian thought and utopianism of thinking' ('utopias' having been defined by Baczko as visions of an alternative world, better than the extant reality since free from its banes). This essay attempts to apply the concepts and the approaches developed to Baczko to the tracing of the convoluted fate of utopias in three decades after the publication of that study. As the 'hunter' took over from the 'gardener' as the basic pattern for life strategy in the deregulated, individualized liquid-modern society of consumers, utopian thinking followed suit. After the 'blueprint utopias', time arrived for their 'iconoclastic' variety, critical of reality as their predecessors yet unlike them reticent to invest hopes and intentions in a 'perfect society' making all further reform undesirable and unnecessary. Continuous and infinite change has become the utopia of liquid-modern society of hunters. Instead of being located in the undefined future time and distant place, it is an individualistic and 'lived' utopia, incorporated in the practices of the continuous reinvention of selves, renegotiation of social networks and identities and the projects of 'being born again' and 'new beginnings'.
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KRATÉTOVA KYNICKÁ UTÓPIA

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Cepko J.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2017
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vol. 72
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issue 2
92 – 102
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The extant writings of Crates the Cynic include a poem about a city called Travelling Bag (Pera). It is a peculiar example of uniting the Cynic literary expression (tropos) with Cynic way of life (bios). The paper focuses on two aspects of the poem. The first one concerns the poem’s form: It shows the tendency to parody the poetic authority (Homer), mixing jest with seriousness. The second one, concerning its content, deals with the Cynic “political” views and elucidates the progress from Diogenian topics (self-sufficiency, life in accordance with nature) to new, Cratetian issues (philanthropy, voluntary poverty, disapproval of war). However, the underlying motivation remains Socratic, namely philosophy as a means helping the human community to achieve practical wisdom.
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Snový svět idejí a syrovost skutečnosti: městská historiografie raného novověku jako utopie?

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Miller J.
Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
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2008
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vol. 106
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issue 2
261-287
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This study advocates the thesis in a broadly understood genre of Early Modern Age urban historiography that there was inherently present, alongside the positive realistic level of communication, a normative utopian level, which mediated a vision of the ideal urban republic. The author supports this thesis through textual analysis and the comparison of urban historiographic texts with contemporary utopian works. The study further establishes that the image of the perfect mediaeval and Early Modern Urban Community, characterized by shared values and opinions, harmony, unity and order, had been influenced by Plato and Aristotle's deliberations on an ideal political and social order.
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PARADOXES OF ALEKSANDER SWIETOCHOWSKI'S UTOPIAN THOUGHT (Paradoksy mysli utopijnej Aleksandra Swietochowskiego)

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Jasinska J.
Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
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2009
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vol. 6
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issue 2(23)
239-247
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The paper shows the relationship between the thoughts of Alexander Swietochowski and utopia. Both his literary works (where, paradoxically, utopia is juxtaposed with dystopia) and his philosophical essays are analyzed. Swietochowski uses the language of utopia to create the model of the Future Man. This idea is a combination of features of heroes in Thomas Carlyle and 'Uebermensch' in Friedrich Nietzsche.
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FROM SCIENCE TO LITERATURE: THE LIMITS OF ALDOUS HUXLEY’S INTERDISCURSIVE UTOPIA

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Shadurski M.
World Literature Studies
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2021
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vol. 13
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issue 4
83 - 93
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Throughout much of his writing career, Aldous Huxley contributed to the interdiscursive construction of literature as a utopia, a common ground between scientific and literary discourses. This article explores both the explications and limits of Huxley’s interdiscursive utopia, focusing primarily but not exclusively on his most famous and highly ambiguous novel Brave New World (1932). Read against the background of pertinent criticism and contextualized in 1920s and 1930s debates about the changing prominence of science and the scientist in Britain, Huxley’s enterprise manifests a considerable preserve of social prejudice and hierarchical thinking. This circumstance detracts substantially from the interdiscursivity of his utopia and compromises literature’s claim to a holistic representation of social reality.
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On the Question of Tense Orientation of Ideology

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Lagosz M.
Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
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2008
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vol. 17
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issue 3(67)
33-47
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The article discusses ideology and utopian proposals with respect to their tense orientation, ie. orientation toward the past, the present or the future. Comprehensive proposals for a major modification of social arrangements that encompass economy and social change have to distinguish between real life changes and their perception by the actors who introduce them. This distinction is made visible be the difference between purely theoretical ideological dogma and a broader utopian vision. The author claims that although narrowly conceived ideology is a world different from a utopian blueprint this distinction is blurred by their tense orientation. As he says, at the level of social being a strong intermingling of the past and the future is inevitable, and consequently verbal ideology cannot be cleanly separated from practical proposals.
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CEZ REVOLÚCIU K NOVÉMU SVETU – PODOBA UTÓPIE A JEJ VPLYVY NA DRAMATICKÚ ŠTRUKTÚRU V HRE NADČLOVEK (1928) OD JOZEFA ZÁVODNÉHO

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Lacová H.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2022
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vol. 69
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issue 3
224 - 238
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The article presents an interpretation of Jozef Závodný’s (1899 – 1969) play Nadčlovek ([Overman] 1928). The dramatic text deals with the utopian topic of revolutionary change of the world through technological invention. In spite of the fact that the play was staged in 1928 by Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, it remains largely forgotten. The article outlines the way in which Závodný’s text builds its dramatic dialogues and models its characters and plot. At the same time, the contribution aims at specifying utopian motifs the play employs and strives to show the ways in which these influence the dramatic structure. The author of the contribution also provides an overview of the possible sources of inspiration (avant-garde art, film, political theatre, socialist ideology, Christian concepts) that resulted in play’s employment of multiple textual strategies and the principle of hybridisation on multiple levels (genre, characters, plot). The play accentuates political and ideological messages and this has a significant bearing on the dramatic dialogue and the category of the dramatic persona. The characters in the play are reduced to promoters of political beliefs and dialogues are narrowed down to presenting the utopian vision and as such lose their dramatic potential.
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BETWEEN UTOPIAN TOURISM GAZE AND DYSTOPIAN INAUTHENTICITY: THREE ROAD MOVIES ABOUT ICELAND (Miedzy utopia turyzmu a antyutopia nieautentycznosci. Trzy filmowe podroze po Islandii)

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Konefal S. J.
Studia Humanistyczne AGH
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2011
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vol. 10
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issue 1
203-213
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The road movie is a genre associated with the American counterculture breakthrough of the late sixties, which both criticised the 'American way of life' and in a sophisticated way also strengthened the capitalistic system. Icelandic road movie uses the semantics and syntactic known from the American productions by combining them with national and transnational components. Marked by irony, the postmodern perspective of such movies as Julius Kemp's Blossi/810551, Fridrik Fridriksson's Cold Fever and Solveig Anspach's Back Soon may be read as a visual invitation to get acquainted with the touristic utopian image of Iceland. However, the close reading of these productions can also indicate that they may be regarded as cultural texts that attempt to deconstruct the inauthentic images of the utopian island.
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ŠIMEČKOVO ZMÁHANIE SA S UTÓPIOU A JEHO CESTA K OTVORENEJ SPOLOČNOSTI

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Marušiak J.
Studia Politica Slovaca: časopis pre politické vedy, najnovšie politické dejiny a medzinárodné vzťahy
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2010
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vol. 3
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issue 2
140 – 154
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The article is focused on the development of the political philosophy of Milan Šimečka from the critic of the utopian elements in the official ideology of Communist regime to the formulation of the programm of the open society.
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ISLAMIST VERSION OF UTOPIA: THE POLITICS OF REDESIGNING SPACE

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Şahin S., Büyükarman D. A.
World Literature Studies
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2021
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vol. 13
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issue 2
43 - 55
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This article examines utopian novels by two Islamist Turkish writers: Ali Nar’s The Space Farmers (Uzay Çiftçileri, 1988) and Ayşe Şasa’s The Novel of the Monkeys (Şebek Romanı, 2004), which were celebrated among Islamist circles upon their publication. In these two novels, the corruption and pollution of place/space is blamed upon the “Christian” Western civilization. They depict how the desired regime change will begin in Turkey and expand towards Europe and then to the rest of the world, through the portrayal of oppositional places as utopian/dystopian spaces. The article discusses the ways in which space/place is ideologically redesigned in the Islamist imagination as a political symbol and analyse how these popular Islamist writers present the world and the space for their utopian vision of Islamist supremacy.
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O ŽÁNROVÝCH OBALOCH A ŽÁNROVÝCH JADRÁCH (K PROBLEMATIKE FUNKCIE WESTERNOVEJ/POPULÁRNEJ ŠTRUKTÚRY V SOCIALISTICKO-REALISTICKÝCH NARATÍVOCH)

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Bílik R.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2013
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vol. 60
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issue 6
445 – 454
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The study focuses on the identifying the western genre invariants and revealing their functions in the structure of the socialist realist narratives. The author uses Vladimír Mináč´s novel Modré vlny (Blue Waves, 1951) and Dominik Tatarka´s Prvý a druhý úder (The First and the Second Blow, 1950) to demonstrate that the western invariant applied in both of the novels is only a „shell“, where the archetypical core of these socialist realist novels is set: the transformation of Chaos into Cosmos being the cosmization of new territories. This motif is the basis of human experience with winning new space and colonizing it. It finds expression in the idyllic-utopian socialist novel. Alongside the invariants of myth and utopia, there are updated genre invariants of exemplum and legend as a narration about exemplary and famous deeds. The receptive meaning (and function) of socialist realist stories is then structured by the interference of author-reception genre conventions (narrative strategies), which are closely linked to folk, originally religious and mythical concepts of the world ontology. It makes it easier to communicate the utilitarian core of the stories.
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SLOVANSKÉ NEBO – IDYLA V HURBANOVOM DIELE SLOVENSKO A JEHO ŽIVOT LITERÁRNY

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Bilińska I.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2018
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vol. 65
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issue 1
1 - 14
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The paper focuses on tracking the idyllic topoi in historiosophical work by Jozef Miloslav Hurban Slovensko a jeho život literárny /Slovakia and its Literary Life/, in which Slovak literary science emphasized the idea of continuity of the development of Slovak culture and literature. The deconstruction of the idyllic topoi shows that it is the idyll that is the important part of the ideological construction of Hurban´s work. The idyllic topoi in connection with mystification of the past enabled him to create the idea of continuity between the present times and the Great Moravian cultural legacy. The idyllic codes can be found in Hurban´s depiction of the Slovak territory, Slovak nation, and its cultural evolution. The ethic and aesthetic values of the idyll became the base of Slovaks´ created collective identity. The idyllic language is part of the Romantic national myths, especially the myth of folksiness, the Great Moravian myth and the myth of the thousand-year-old yoke. Hurban´s idea of continuity of national culture, the connection between the „cradle of Slavs“ and the writer´s present times, and especially the utopia of Slavic future in the form of „Slavic heaven“ is based on idyllic topoi and Slovak Romantic myths.
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IMAGINE THE UTOPIA! RETHINKING ALAIN BADIOUʼS THEATRE-POLITICS ISOMORPHISM

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Motal J.
Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
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2018
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vol. 66
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issue 3
311 – 329
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The presented article is a polemic with Alain Badiou’s concept of theatre-politics isomorphism. The author adapts the basic elements of Badiou’s philosophy, provides an interpretation of his theory of theatre and presents crucial critical arguments to reveal the reductionism of Badiou’s philosophy. Subsequently, the author presents his alternative theory of theatre based on this ground. The article assumes that theatre performance is a live, truthful event, an encounter of humans experiencing an imagined Utopia based on their structured homology (shared materiality, phylogenetic archetypal memory, existentiality). The argument is supported by the recent research in neuroscience. As the article argues, this Utopia has its social and political significance. The theatre is not political only if it constructs both a political body (crowd, public) and a discourse, as Badiou suggests. The author concludes that theatre is inherently political because of its imaginative nature, which allows humans to experience the utopical attachment exceeding the subject-object boundaries. This imagined Utopia with its critical and anticipative power allows people to transcend their singularity to interpersonal and intercultural dialogue and universality, and it provokes their political imagination (in the sense of David Graeber). The author employs Erika Fischer-Lichte’s concept of performativity to present theatre performance as an event.
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STÁLE AKTUÁLNY VIZIONÁR ANTONIO GRAMSCI

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Perný L.
Studia Politica Slovaca: časopis pre politické vedy, najnovšie politické dejiny a medzinárodné vzťahy
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2015
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vol. 8
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issue 1
93 – 105
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The paper analyses the main theoretical resources of what is called the practical philosophy of A. Gramsci, with an emphasis on the philosophy of history associated with collective will and historicism. Gramsci‘s contribution is updated and compared with the statements made by his predecessors, contemporaries, neo-Marxist followers, ideological opponents as well as contemporary philosophers. The mission of this paper is to recall the message of the neglected and ignored representative of cultural Marxism. According to Gramsci, the human being is a process of his actions, philosophy in human action, the historical process is governed by collective will, which results from wills and deeds and the truth is objectively given, and is independent of where and when it is recognized. The central motif is practical transformation of the world through art and philosophy, that is, through what is named cultural hegemony, which will transform itself from an elitist culture into a culture for all human beings. Gramsci‘ s philosophy is a unique fusion of Croce’s idealistic and spiritual understanding of the philosophy of history with the theory of Marxism.
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THREE UNDISCOVERED UTOPIAS IN GERMAN-LANGUAGE LITERATURE FROM THE CZECH PERIPHERY: MORAVIAN WALLACHIA AND ZLÍN

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Marek L.
World Literature Studies
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2021
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vol. 13
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issue 2
81 - 98
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This study examines three literary utopias from the margins of German literature, namely German-language literature from Eastern Moravia. The works chosen for analysis are the dramatic cycle The City of People (Die Stadt der Menschen) by Moravian-born Austrian writer and visionary Susanne Schmida (1894–1981), the novel The Imperial City (Die Kaiserstadt) by the Austrian writer and diplomat Paul Zifferer (1879–1929), and the text “The City of the Future” (“Die Stadt des Kommenden”) by the German-speaking Czechoslovak author Walter Seidl. In all the texts examined, the model of urban landscape is used as the location of utopia: the prototype of an abstract futuristic city (Schmida), Vienna as an exemplar of political utopia (Zifferer), and Zlín as a fully realized social utopia (Seidl). These three sites show a complementary gradation in the sense of the (potential) realization of utopian ideas, i.e. the belief that, put simply, “it was once good” (Zifferer), “it is good” (Seidl), and “it will be good” (Schmida).
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Utopia and Anti-Utopia in the Frankfurt School

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Walentowicz H.
Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
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2008
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vol. 17
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issue 3(67)
125-146
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This article is concerned with the problem if, and to what extent, it is justified to use the category of utopia and anti-utopia with respect to the social theory of the Frankfurt School. The authoress argues that the objection frequently leveled against the Frankfurt School to the effect that it practiced utopian thought cannot be accepted as generally valid. Although the diagnosis of the current situation proposed by several thinkers of that orientation seemed to coincide in a high degree, their recommendations for the future and their predictions were conspicuously dissimilar. The terms of utopia and anti-utopia are therefore more useful as concepts that describe internal differences among members of that group, but less useful as general terms that describe them all. The article deals with some selected problems, and specifically with the accuracy of the following predictions: Horkheimer and Adorno's about 'the administered world', Marcuse's about 'acquiesced existence', and the compromise project of the 'sane society' championed by Fromm. The main thesis of the article is that the philosophers of the Frankfurt School had a fairly uniform position of the value of traditional utopian thought. They approved its audacity and the readiness to break beyond the horizons of the status quo, they were critical of its didactic overtones and simplifications.
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Tradycja i historia w myśleniu Emila Ciorana

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Sawicki M.
Sensus Historiae. Studia interdyscyplinarne
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2011
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issue 2(3)
79-105
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Objective for this article is account the specificity of Cioran’s consideration on background of varied history scriptures. Firstly, will be to get a knowledge about his reflections on the beginning of the history manifested in the biblical tradition and in her quaint interpretation. Secondly, we will try to reveal the most natural character of the human being, which was somehow confirmation of visions gained from religion. Then we explore Cioran’s understanding of history and historiography, and also source of his fundamental categories of historiosophy. In the last part we would like to present his philosophy’s spirit in history project.
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