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Antycypacja przemian technokulturowych w myśli José Ortegi y Gasseta
Anticipating technocultural changes in the thought of José Ortega y Gasset

Author(s): Joanna Kuźnicka
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Social Informatics, Economic development, Globalization
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: technocultural transformation; mass culture; mass man; consumerism; media;

Summary/Abstract: We live in times of profound technocultural changes that affect the twenty-firstcentury society. This rapid acceleration of civilization was foreseen by one of thegreatest philosophers of culture of the last century, Jose Ortega y Gasset. In hisdeliberations he analyzed social, cultural and economic dynamics of the transformation of the world caused by technology and industrialization. He predicted presentchanges in today’s global economy, passing from industrialism to networking and informationism, while pointing out the greatest imperfection of the world, whichis a crisis of human identity

  • Issue Year: 4/2012
  • Issue No: 1 (6)
  • Page Range: 143-161
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish