| Description |
xii, 181 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Political time or the past as a political issue. Memory of politics, politics of memory: the politics of the past in post-totalitarian Poland ; Mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion ; Liberating the future from the past: liberating the past from the future ; The politics of political biography: self-realization, loyalty, and political change ; Civil society as an ethical challenge ; Life as simulacrum: Stanislaw Llem's science fiction -- Social time or the ontology of expectations. Ontology of expectations ; Genealogy of expectations ; The myth of the unity of the nation ; Marxism as a way of life: the failure of an impossible project ; The mythologies of solidarity -- Perspectives on time: from philosophy to anthropology. The problem of time in pragmatism and phenomenology ; Time, dialogue, and society ; Time and social practices ; Politics of memory, politics of time -- Epilogue: what has happened to us? The rise of post-post-communism. The emergence of post-post-communism or populist post-communism ; What is post-post-communism? ; Democracy against democracy or who has hijacked the common background? ; Possible scenarios and two conservatisms ; New tribalism, post-post-communism, and the politics of time ; Epilogue-supplement -- App. Post-communism and pop music: annihilation or restoration of memory in disco-polo. Two views on disco-polo: intellectuals' "horror vacui" and the nation's hope ; "All Poles" or what is disco-polo? ; The glorious past and the Slavic soul ; In opposition to the west ; Disco-polo and the dilemmas of Polish past and present. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Group identity -- Poland.
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Social psychology -- Poland.
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Post-communism -- Poland.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781845455101 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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184545510X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780857450456 (e-book) |
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