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Alienarea omului modern
The alienation of the modern human

Author(s): Tincuţa Racheru
Subject(s): Social differentiation
Published by: Asociația Cultural Științifică „Dimitrie Ghika-Comănești”
Keywords: alienation; emancipatory; evolution; society; values;

Summary/Abstract: This article tries to analyze the alienation of modern human being. Modernity means positivity: it is described as something that must be fought relentlessly and worth the sacrifices to achieve it. This is unusual, because the very nature of modernity is generally known as„unambiguous ambiguous” with positive and negative traits, emancipatory and exploiting inseparably intertwined. It is said that the positive features have enhanced progress and better standards of life. Examples include widespread literacy, urbanization, industrialization. By contrast,negative traits were due to opposing phenomena: alienation, mining etc. In almost natural alienation this modern duality is perceived as having its origins in the very concept of rationalism of the Enlightenment project broadcast (which, in turn, as everyone knows, is supposed to be the fountain of modernity). In contrast, post‑communist societies seem to disregard this nature contradictory and insists to cultivate their own modernity unambiguous „desirable”. The alienation of modern being is realized on three levels: removal of society, of religion and of past values.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 217-221
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian