Title: | Kryzys kultury europejskiej w ujęciu Leszka Kołakowskiego |
Authors: | Turoń-Kowalska, Agnieszka |
Keywords: | Leszek Kołakowski; European civilization; the crisis of culture; “the idolatry of politics” |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego |
Citation: | Studia Politicae Universitatis Silesiensis, T. 13 (2014), s. 153-175 |
Abstract: | Drawing on the Heglian interpretation of history, which suggests that no epoch
is able to properly identify itself, Leszek Kołakowski ponders the crisis of the 20th-century
European civilization. Not knowing the fundamentals of one’s own culture is defined by the
philosopher as an aspect of postmodern Europe. An attempt at defining one’s own civilization
is to be simultaneously an effort made to define oneself — a human being. For Kołakowski,
the problem of postmodernity results from the triumph of rationality, in particular the idea of
modern rationality. Therefore, the analysis of European culture is to be merely a stimulus to
investigate the condition of European civilization, namely its intellectual condition, but also,
and more importantly, an attempt at answering the question on how to deal with the decay of
humanism, the collapse of values and “the idolatry of politics.” Kołakowski points out to the
spirit of self-criticism and uncertainty, which is the feature of European culture and turns out
to be an opportunity to uphold its spiritual certainty. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/1369 |
ISSN: | 1895-3492 |
Appears in Collections: | Artykuły (WNS)
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