Return to the system? Editorial debate around Zbigniew Kwieniński’s paper of 1980 Cover Image

Powrót do systemu? Dyskusja redakcyjna wokół tekstu Zbigniewa Kwiecińskiego z 1980 roku
Return to the system? Editorial debate around Zbigniew Kwieniński’s paper of 1980

Author(s): Joanna Rutkowiak, Łukasz Stankiewicz, Piotr Stańczyk, Karolina Starego, Tomasz Szkudlarek
Subject(s): Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: crisis; the social system; historical logic; authoritarianism; structure vs surface;

Summary/Abstract: The debate organized by editors of “Ars Educandi” pertains to the question of whether the diagnoses of the social crisis in the time of the fall of communism in Poland have retained any value in actual conditions. The text by Zbigniew Kwieciński written in 1980 made a pretext for discussing similarities and differences between that and the current form of political authoritarianism in Poland, the relation between the “surface” of social emotions and “deep structures” of the social systems, as well as on whether the very figure of the social system has retained its force in social analyses.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 29-48
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish