The remnants of modernity
| Titel: | The remnants of modernity : two essays on sarmatism and utopia in Polish contemporary literature / Przemysław Czapliński. Transl. by Thomas Anessi |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Frankfurt am Main : Lang-Ed., 2015 |
| Umfang: | 193 Seiten ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Modernity in question ; 6 |
| Einheitssachtitel: | Resztki nowoczesności |
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| ISBN: | 9783631629246 ; 3631629249 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Inhaltstext Klappentext |
X
- Introduction: Decycling
- p. 7
- The Remnants of Tradition: Sarmatism, Liberating Bodies, and Late Modernism
- p. 13
- I
- Historiosophical Solitude
- p. 18
- II
- Them? Us?
- p. 21
- III
- Let Them Fuck Off? Is That OK?
- p. 27
- IV
- Dismissal of the Secular Envoys
- p. 31
- V
- Tertium Est Datur
- p. 34
- VI
- Post-Stalinist Vacuum
- p. 42
- VII
- Phenomenology of the Plebeian
- p. 44
- VIII
- The Holy Sin of Patriotism
- p. 51
- IX
- Zaglobainthe PRL
- p. 54
- X
- The Production of Mass Sarmatism
- p. 59
- XI
- Revolt of the Sarmatian Masses
- p. 63
- XII
- Plebeian Sarmatism
- p. 67
- XIII
- Sarmatians and the People of Modernity
- p. 69
- XIV
- Resentment and Normality
- p. 74
- XV
- Semi-postcolonialism and Rebellion
- p. 78
- XVI
- The Camp Saxmation Body
- p. 86
- XVII
- Sarmatism as a Medium
- p. 95
- XVIII
- The End of Modernity
- p. 98
- Remnants of the Future: Literature and the Creation of Utopia
- p. 101
- I
- The Momentary End of History
- p. 102
- II
- Twilight of the Gods of Modernity
- p. 105
- III
- The Orphaned Children of Prometheus
- p. 110
- IV
- Sub-utopia
- p. 114
- V
- Defending the Centre
- p. 118
- VI
- Conservative Anti-utopia
- p. 122
- VII
- A New (H)ero(s)
- p. 128
- VIII
- The Third End of History
- p. 132
- IX
- Impossible Anti-utopia
- p. 136
- X
- The Faustian Simulator
- p. 140
- XI
- The Opening of History
- p. 143
- XII
- The Future Present
- p. 147
- XIII
- The Growth of Utopia
- p. 155
- XIV
- Tactics of Resistance
- p. 162
- XV
- Biocriticism
- p. 172
- XVI
- Articulating Existence
- p. 182
- Conclusion: An Uncertain Whole
- p. 189
