Published: 2023-10-17

Engaged Humanities: Illusion or Reality?

Anna Wolff-Powęska
Section: debates - confrontations - diagnoses
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.14717

Abstract

Recent wailing over the condition of the humanities is an integral part of a greater debate on the crisis of democracy, identity, the Enlightenment, the critique of globalisation, and post-modernity. What is more, such lamentation expresses human helplessness as we confront the radicalisation of political movements and parties connected to the inevitable process of rapidly progressing and all-encompassing civilisational and cultural change. Among the factors influencing its perception, the sense of generational alienation actively co-creating the democratic order in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989, as well as of the Western elites involved in deepening European integration, has to be first and foremost considered. Their values were in ruins. The ambivalent and double-edged nature of the transformation of almost all spheres of life, the complexity and contradictions inherent in social and political change brought about a sense of unease, reinforced by the unpredictability of the COVID-19 pandemic and an all-embracing crisis of the sense of social security.

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Wolff-Powęska, A. (2023). Engaged Humanities: Illusion or Reality?. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (47), 167–184. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.14717

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Er(r)go 47 (2/2023)

No. 47 (2023)
Published: 2024-01-25


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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