THE CRISIS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND THE NATIONALIST COUNTER-PROJECT. THE PROBLEM OF THE RELATIONALITY BETWEEN AN INDIVIDUAL, THE SOCIETY AND THE AUTHORITY
THE CRISIS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND THE NATIONALIST COUNTER-PROJECT. THE PROBLEM OF THE RELATIONALITY BETWEEN AN INDIVIDUAL, THE SOCIETY AND THE AUTHORITY

Summary/Abstract: At the root of the article, there is an argument on the crisis of liberal democracy, which manifests itself in the atomisation of society, exacerbated by consumerism(among other things), and consequently, withdrawal of individuals from the public space, as well as an unwitting resignation from, for example, the rights of scrutiny over authority. It needs to be noticed that the above diagnosis may stem both from the concern about liberal democracy, the belief that there is no alternative to it,but it may also be derived from the conviction that it is necessary to reject liberal democracy and replace it with some other, allegedly better project. One of such counter-projects is nationalism. Every project of social organization, including liberal democracy, just like nationalism, adopts a certain catalogue of obligations or expectations towards individuals, citizens, members of the nation (the obligatory aspect). The aim of this paper is to analyze the connections between an individual, the society and the state, that is the scope of relationships determining certain obligatory aspects, namely the contents of obligations corresponding to the requirements of liberal democracy efficiency and the contents of obligations necessary to preserve the coherence of the nationalist counter-project, as well as specific costs (some kinds of hardships) necessary to achieve the efficiency of each of these systems.The subjects of reference in the text, despite the generalized character of some of the arguments mentioned in the text, are the Polish society and state.

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