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Deficits of Political Culture in the Context of the Transformation of Postmodern Subjectivity
Deficits of Political Culture in the Context of the Transformation of Postmodern Subjectivity

Author(s): Mariola Kuszyk-Bytniewska
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Political Theory
Published by: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Keywords: modernity; late modern age; politics; praxis; subjectivity; political culture; Charles Taylor; Anthony Giddens; Michel Foucault; Hannah Arendt;

Summary/Abstract: In the article, I address the issues of the transformation of subjectivity, to which it is subject in the face of changes in the political and cultural status of knowledge in post-modernity. I am trying to identify and define the post-modern deficits of political culture as a consequence of these changes. Looking at the links between subjectivity and politics, I reach out to Charles Taylor, who characterizes the crisis of the ethos of authenticity, Anthony Giddens, who analyses the process of disembedding of a subject, and Michel Foucault describing modern technologies of the self-creation in the context of a concept of politics understood as praxis by Hannah Arendt.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 27
  • Page Range: 43-75
  • Page Count: 33
  • Language: English