Postmoderna kao Aufhebung religije i tijela
Postmodernity as Aufhebung of Religion and Body
Author(s): Bernard HarbašSubject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Philosophy of Religion, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Sports Studies, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Udruženje za filozofiju i društveno-humanistička istraživanja “Eidos”
Keywords: postmodernity; religion; body; Christianity; sexuality; identity; deconstruction;
Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the concept of postmodernity as the framework denoting philosophical and artistic understanding of contemporary era, especially in the second half of the twentieth century. This conceptual framework brakes with classical understandings of the world and life summoned in grandiose explanations which Lyotard calls Grand Stories, and as a principle introduces fragmentation and multitude of equally valuable and irreducible opinions. The article analyses the concept of religion as the view that aspires towards a unique and universal idea and message and its relation towards postmodern worldview, which inherits its ideas from relativism and incommensurability. Further on, the concept of the body and its status in postmodern thinking, especially its role in the construction of identity is being elaborated. Ending of the article strives to think through the relationship between religion and the body by indicating that, on one hand, contemporary culture of shaping the ideal is theological, and on the other, that Christianity is, first of all, a bodily phenomenon.
Journal: Eidos - časopis za filozofiju i društveno - humanistička istraživanja
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 5-11
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Bosnian