The Remnants of Modernity : Two Essays on Sarmatism and Utopia in Polish Contemporary Literature
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Modernity in Question
ISBN-10
3631629249
ISBN-13
9783631629246
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 15th, 2014
Print length
193 Pages
Weight
352 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 21.40 x 1.70 cms
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Literary studies: general
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Post-communist Polish culture faced a problem: how to reconcile a growing demand for individual autonomy with a growing need for interpersonal and interspecies solidarity. The author argues that writers sought a solution in the processing of remnants – in the productive destruction of two leftovers of modernity: Sarmatian and utopia.
Polish culture after 1989 has been defined by conflicts surrounding the remnants of modernity, phenomena marginalised during communism. The book considers two such phenomena: the search for a common tradition and the disappearance of utopia. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, romanticism provided a common tradition. After 1989, its place was assumed by Sarmatism, an elite and xenophobic pre-modern cultural formation, into which contradictory values were introduced, creating an explosive mixture of emancipation and populism. The second remnant, the heritage of utopia, is addressed in works whose critical visions of change are not comprehensive projects, but rather rebellions. They begin with a questioning of authority, and lead to a posthuman definition of humanity and interspecies solidarity.
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