War of cultures in America and the world. A remedy for counter-culture: bourgeois morality or knightly virtues?  Cover Image

Wojna kultur w Ameryce i na świecie. Moralność mieszczańska czy etos rycerski remedium na kontrkulturę?
War of cultures in America and the world. A remedy for counter-culture: bourgeois morality or knightly virtues?

Author(s): Władysław Jóźwicki
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Keywords: Gertrude Himmelfarb; morality; cultural revolution in the 20th c. 60s; society; liberal world outlook; conservative world outlook

Summary/Abstract: And a few other comments in the margin of Gertrude’s Himmelfarb One nation, two cultures. Gertrude Himmelfarb aims at a comprehensive analysis of the condition of American society, in respect of its dominating culture, as possible. She attempts to fi nd the causes of this condition, to describe and explain its basic symptoms and to discover the current trends, as well as to appraise their meaning and significance. The author’s book is firmly set in the American realities. This does not mean, however, that its messages may only be of interest to Americans or Americanists. The conflict between the conservative and liberal world outlooks is at present highly vital, in its various hues and on various planes, to all the societies of the ‘West’, including Poland. It for this reason that the theses articulated by Himmelfarb undoubtedly deserve profound reflection.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 235-257
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish