Concealment as a linguistic fundament for the concept of kitsch in the light of Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics Cover Image

Przemilczenie jako językowa podstawa koncepcji kiczu w świetle hermeneutyki filozoficznej Hansa-Georga Gadamera
Concealment as a linguistic fundament for the concept of kitsch in the light of Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics

Author(s): Anna Bajer
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: understanding; kitsch; philosophical hermeneutics

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the question of how kitsch is constituted. H.-G. Gadamer approach has been taken to describe examples of kitsch in the field of art and in everyday life. The author defines kitsch as falsehood and find its source in language. The falseness of kitsch is expressed in relation to the truth. Such separation from it could be called concealment. It is an expression of human passivity.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 48
  • Page Range: 27-41
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish
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