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Celem artykułu jest zarysowanie procesów adiaforyzacji (termin ten ukuł polsko-angielski socjolog Zygmunt Bauman, który był subtelnym analitykiem zjawiska władzy) we współczesnej, kapitalistycznej Polsce po upadku systemu realnego socjalizmu. Niniejszy tekst składa się z trzech rozdziałów. Autor rozpoczyna wywód od zarysowania podobieństw i różnic między adiaforyzacją w dwóch fazach nowoczesności:...
In Modernity and the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman argued that the Holocaust had been by no means a negation of the civilising process, but was, on the contrary, its consequence. He claimed that the constitutive features of solid modernity, such as bureaucratic culture, the rise of instrumental rationality and the domination of blueprint utopia, were reflected in the genesis and course of the Holocaust...
The article focuses on the problem of moral infertility of the contemporary culture. The phenomenon — the phenomenon of adiaphorization, as Zygmunt Bauman calls it — seems to be a consequence of the process of global anesthetization. The last one is especially noticeable in the context of violence which is submitted for a process of anesthetization in the media. The aforementioned context reveals...
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