The Liquidity of Postmodern Identity: An Opportunity to Create Our Teleology?
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angličtina
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The Liquidity of Postmodern Identity: An Opportunity to Create Our Teleology?
Original language description
Bauman's conceptualisation of postmodern identity identifies two pivotal characteristics.The initial aspect, which will be designated a critical one, is an almost entirely negativeportrayal of postmodern society. Such a society is a liquid one, because of its dismembermentand fragmentation of identity, its disconnection from past and future, as well as its conceptionof the "never-ending carnival" of kaleidoscopic culture. It can be argued that the postmodernsociety we inhabit contains a multitude of ephemeral joys and pleasures - or activitiespresented this way - that are not underpinned by any overarching conception of a meta-aimor a principal sense of purpose.The second aspect described by Bauman is that of the distinctiveness of European culture,one which could be described as rather promising. Bauman draws on George Steiner's ideathat perhaps the most distinctive quality of European history is its remarkable capacity tointegrate a multitude of external influences and to adapt to the evolving demands of historicalchange; or, to quote Hans Georg Gadamer, its ability to live with the Different. The objectiveof this paper is to defend the concept of the liquidity of our postmodernist absence of a strong,meta-oriented identity and to argue that such a situation represents an opportunity to re-createsuch a meta-oriented identity and encapsulate it (to paraphrase Cornelius Castoriadis) inmore clearly defined terms. It is proposed that a specific conceptualisation of Europeannesscould fulfil this role
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Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Challenges for Europeanness in an Age of Global Crises
ISBN
978-83-8017-617-1
Number of pages of the result
10
Pages from-to
23-32
Number of pages of the book
99
Publisher name
Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA
Place of publication
Warszawa
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