https://doi.org/10.31261/CHOWANNA.2003.20.08
The article addresses the issue of inquiries into self-education and self-upbringing in the postmodern world, which is influenced by both postmodernism and globalization, as well as technopoly. This topic appears to be not only cognitively interesting but also significant during the formation of the information society — the knowledge society. This is due, among other things, to the fact that informational self-education and self-upbringing carry a considerable "charge" of innovation and creativity, which could be properly harnessed for the benefit of the individual, humanity, and even the ecosystem in which we live at the beginning of the 21st century. The postmodern world is most often associated with postmodernism, but also with globalization. In pedagogy, both approaches reveal many ambiguities, among which a particularly notable role may be played by the “managing technopoly” that oversees education and e-education. Postmodernism, distinguished by some authors from broader civilizational phenomena referred to as postmodernity, appears among other concepts as the name of a complex and multidimensional cultural trend. Its dominant features include a sense of rupture, decline, and transgression within the contemporary epoch. Although the concept of postmodernism first appeared in the 1930s and was used in literary criticism in the 1950s, it entered mainstream aesthetic and philosophical discourse in the 1970s and 1980s. The prominence given to postmodernism by Jean-François Lyotard in The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge stems from his general characterization of contemporary reality in the early 1980s, emphasizing a break in cultural continuity, the emergence of new conditions for human existence, and new frameworks for thinking. The change that emerged in the cultural climate of the West after World War II is linked, among other things, to the rise of new civilizational phenomena — most notably, a new status of knowledge resulting from the information explosion and the increasing dependence of knowledge production on market demands. This shift has led to a reorientation from the pursuit of truth to a focus on efficiency. Central to these reflections is the analysis of the legitimacy of the scientific “language game” discourse, and thus the rejection of grand narratives in the realms of philosophical speculation and political emancipation. There is no longer faith in liberation through knowledge, and there is a growing awareness that the legitimacy of knowledge can arise solely from its own linguistic and communicative practices.
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