Bob Dylan o prawach człowieka – odpowiedzialność jednostki i struktury

• Authors: Jan Radomski

Title variants

EN

Bob Dylan on human rights: individual and structural responsibility

Abstracts

EN

This article focuses on human rights – a central topic in Bob Dylan’s works since the beginning of his career. Analysing a selection of texts in which this winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature refers to the situation of black Americans, the author tries to capture and define Dylan’s recurring narrative regarding the responsibility of individuals, structures and institutions, and their mutual relationships. The analysis focuses on the motif of accusation: who and what is it addressed to? In his discussion of Dylan’s narrative, the author refers to the concept of habitus proposed by Pierre Bourdieu. It is defined as a set of rules incorporated by an individual from the environment and later applied in individual attitudes and actions. Based on the analysis of Dylan’s most important works on human rights, the article shows that the American artist’s perception of the scope of individual and structural responsibility is similar to the concept described by Bourdieu, and as such belongs within a specific borderline sphere.

Keywords

PL

struktura; rasizm; jednostka; Bob Dylan; habitus

EN

structure; racism; an individual; Bob Dylan; habitus

• Publisher: Narodowe Centrum Kultury
• Journal: Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 114
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 189-203

Contributors

author

Jan Radomski

• https://orcid.org/0000000299070564

Identifiers

DOI

10.26112/kw.2021.114.14

Biblioteka Nauki

1944373