Anxiety and Lucidity

This book explores the nature of modern culture as a culture of anxiety, and by drawing on sociological and philosophical concepts of modernity, offers analyses to expose the fissures in a culture that seeks to stabilize itself by concealing the social phenomena of risk society.

Autorentext

Leszek Koczanowicz is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland. He is the author of Politics of Dialogue: Non-Consensual Democracy and Critical Community and Politics of Time: Dynamics of Identity in Post-Communist Poland and the co-editor of Democracy, Dialogue, Memory: Expression and Affect Beyond Consensus and Democracy in Dialogue, Dialogue in Democracy: The Politics of Dialogue in Theory and Practice.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Angor Animi: Or, on the Culture of Anxiety 2. Identity as a Nuisance: Two Genealogies of Modern Hamartia 3. A Gladioli Postcard: Memory and Communication 4. The Memories of Childhood in a Spectral World 5. Post-communism and Culture Wars 6. The Anxiety of Intimacy: Or, on Telling the Truth in the Age of the Internet 7. The Anxiety of Politics 8. The Magical Power of Art: The Subject, the Public Sphere, and Emancipation 9. Anxieties of Community 10. "Please, Don't Be Angry, Happiness, that I Take You as My Due": Happiness in the Age of Democratization 11. "Mortal Generations": On Two Phenomenologies of Ageing - Cicero and Améry 12. The Anxiety of Clairvoyance: Terminal Lucidity and the End of Culture