Politics of time

• Preface

• Chapter 1
• 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 Lem's Science Fiction

• Chapter 2
• 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

• Chapter 3
• 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

• Appendix: Post-communism and Pop Music: Annihilation or Restoration of Memory in Disco-polo

• Two Views on Disco-polo: Intellectuals'

• Horror VacuiA" and the Nation's Hope

• All PolesA" 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

• Notes

• Bibliography

• Index