Politics of time : dynamics of identity in post-communist Poland /: dynamics of identity in post-communist Poland. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Dynamics of identity in post-communist Poland
• Further Information: Note: Leszek Koczanowicz.
• Other Names: Koczanowicz, Leszek
• Contents: Political time or the past as a political issue. Memory of politics, politics of memory: the politics of the past in post-totalitarian Poland ; Mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion ; Liberating the future from the past: liberating the past from the future ; The politics of political biography: self-realization, loyalty, and political change ; Civil society as an ethical challenge ; Life as simulacrum: Stanislaw Llem's science fiction -- Social time or the ontology of expectations. Ontology of expectations ; Genealogy of expectations ; The myth of the unity of the nation ; Marxism as a way of life: the failure of an impossible project ; The mythologies of solidarity -- Perspectives on time: from philosophy to anthropology. The problem of time in pragmatism and phenomenology ; Time, dialogue, and society ; Time and social practices ; Politics of memory, politics of time -- Epilogue: what has happened to us? The rise of post-post-communism. The emergence of post-post-communism or populist post-communism ; What is post-post-communism? ; Democracy against democracy or who has hijacked the common background? ; Possible scenarios and two conservatisms ; New tribalism, post-post-communism, and the politics of time ; Epilogue-supplement -- App. Post-communism and pop music: annihilation or restoration of memory in disco-polo. Two views on disco-polo: intellectuals' "horror vacui" and the nation's hope ; "All Poles" or what is disco-polo? ; The glorious past and the Slavic soul ; In opposition to the west ; Disco-polo and the dilemmas of Polish past and present.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 181 pages)
• Subjects: 306.209438/09049; Group identity -- Poland; Social psychology -- Poland; Post-communism -- Poland; Group identity; Post-communism; Social psychology; Social Science; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; Group identity; Post-communism; Social psychology; Politik; Gesellschaft; Postkommunismus; Politik; Gesellschaft; Gruppenidentität; Identität; Poland; Polen; Polen; Polen; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857450456
• Related ISBNs: 085745045X; 9781845455101; 184545510X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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