Polityka i czas, czyli zderzenie epok: tradycyjności, moderności i postmoderności
Politics and time: a fight between traditionalism, modernism, and postmodernism

Summary/Abstract: There are many social conflicts. Some of them may be regarded as intra-epoch conflicts. In the past traditional societies faced many conflicts and wars including those for dynastic, economy, ethnic, and religious reasons, as well as those caused by unequal availability of resources. Subsequently, the modern epoch added economy and ideological conflicts between sovereign national states or groups of states. The fundamental reason which has been causing conflicts for more than 300 years is the clash of epochs. It leads to the severe change of the human life − from the traditional life based on the value of community and culture as a whole; through modernist, which results in a secular and sovereign state, to postmodernist which is characterized by the idea of globalization, abolition of all traditional moral and social barriers, and religious fundamentalism. The author proposes that the fundamental conflict is the conflict between epochs. However, it constitutes an insufficiently observed arena, which faces many conflicts, including the one between civilizations. The author assumes that the fight, which in fact is a fight between traditionalism, modernism and postmodernism, has lead the Western world to an internal dilemma, which causes it to become less capable of facing new challenges.

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