scholarly journals Crisis of Authority: The Truth of Post-Truth

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Enroth
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Current Crisis

AbstractThis article is a critique of the notion of post-truth. Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, I argue that the epistemological crisis suggested by the notion of post-truth is epiphenomenal to a more general crisis of authority, a crisis that is poorly understood in the literature. I also argue that revisiting Arendt’s account of authority can help us elucidate the vexed dynamics of authority in modern society, as well as the dynamics behind its current crisis. The post-truth situation is a loss of authority that is political before it presents as epistemological. Effectively addressing this situation, I conclude, is a much more challenging and complex proposition than what is suggested in the literature on post-truth.

Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Mauldin
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Recent political events around the world have raised the specter of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary worries about the decline of liberal democracy harken back to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during the rise of National Socialism, and each reflected on what the rise of totalitarianism meant for the aspirations of modern politics. Engaging the realities of totalitarian terror, they avoided despairing rejections of modern society. Beginning with Barth in the wake of the First World War, following Bonhoeffer through the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany, and concluding with Barth’s postwar reflections in the 1950s, this study explores how these figures reflected on modern society during this turbulent time and how their work is relevant to the current crisis of modern democracy

Politics contra the functionalisation of man – Hannah Arendt’s problematic investigation of ideology and labour

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-369
Author(s):  
Anna-Sophie Schönfelder
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Constraints ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Social Domination ◽  
Persuasive Power ◽  
The Face

Abstract Hannah Arendt suggests the pivotal problems of modern society to be man’s susceptibility to ideological patterns of thought and behaviour and the compulsion under which he performs labour. Her depiction of these phenomena can however be seen as rather one-dimensional. Since the redemptive concept of politics which she proposes as a kind of worldly realm for unconstrained human relationships, is based upon her fragile analyses of ideology and labour, this concept’s persuasive power is limited. Arendt’s striking powers of observation are more effective in areas where social domination is taken to the extreme, whereas in the face of basic social constraints she seems to be perplexed.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Joshua Mauldin
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Recent political events around the world have raised the specter of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary worries about the decline of liberal democracy harken back to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during the rise of National Socialism, and each reflected on what the rise of totalitarianism meant for the aspirations of modern politics. Engaging the realities of totalitarian terror, they avoided despairing rejections of modern society. Beginning with Barth in the wake of the First World War, following Bonhoeffer through the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany, and concluding with Barth’s postwar reflections in the 1950s, this study explores how these figures reflected on modern society during this turbulent time and how their work is relevant to the current crisis of modern democracy.

scholarly journals Sustainable development as an alternative goal of economic actors in modern society

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 452-455
Author(s):  
M. I. Lvova ◽  
T. V. Bakunova ◽  
T. A. Koltsova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
State Control ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Capital Growth ◽  
Full State

The article deals with the content of the category “sustainable development”. Through the understanding of the signs of sustainable development, the goals of economic entities are substantiated, the directions of transformation of the economic system in accordance with the goals of sustainable development are determined. The goal of modern society is to make more and more profit. The current crisis reveals the limits of profit: markets are becoming global, and further expansion of production is impossible, and credit opportunities to expand demand are becoming limited, which, in turn, are limited by the relatively declining incomes of the population. With the apparent improvement in the quality of life, GDP growth and other indicators, dissatisfaction with the modern economy increases. Since it is quite difficult to abandon the usual goals, the goals of economic entities should be refracted under the pressure of public interest. The spokesman of the public interest is government, but the initiative must come from the mass of the subject, able by his behavior to steer economic development in a new direction is households and individuals, including the self-employed. Orientation of households, each person is not on the maximization of utility, and harmonious creation is the goal of sustainable development. In accordance with this goal, there is no dependence on the constant increase and maintenance of income, the need to intensify labor, high dependence on the level of technology development. In conclusion, the authors suggest that the change of the socio-economic development of society in the direction of sustainable development involves the abandonment of big business, the possible introduction of full or partial policy of protectionism, full state control over the branches of natural monopolies (electricity, utilities, transport, etc.), the nomination as criteria for assessing the development of non-cost indicators of production and capital growth, and indicators of preservation of the biosphere and individual satisfaction with living conditions.

scholarly journals REABILITATION OF ETHICS THROUGH THE PRISM OF INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHY (A. MACINTYRE, H. ARENDT)

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Individual Preference ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Alasdair Macintyre ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interpersonal Interaction ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

The purpose of the article is to study ethical problematics in the philosophical works of Alasdair MacIntyre and Hannah Arendt. On the one hand we have the analysis of virtues ethics and of its place in modern society (through the prism of emotivism ethics inherent to this society), and on the other hand, we have the analysis of action and judgment as scopes of person’s self-representation, which are valuable by themselves. MacIntyre developed his hypothesis about an individual biography pointing out that modern emotivism ethics does not leave a room for conscious ethical worldview, reduces the scope of ethical choice to the very statement of individual preference. By that, a sequence of ethical decisions and preferences in a person’s life acquires irrational and wayward nature, due to which conscious transition from one narrative to another becomes impossible. In its turn, the possibility of individual biography as a holistic story that everyone can tell about themselves provides such an informative nature of ethical views, which have features of a narrative that can be rationally told and rationally perceived by others. Hannah Arendt analyzed the issue of modern ethical crisis from the other side – she studied the ethical dimension of judging ability and the role of action in social interaction. An action (as Arendt believed) becomes the strictly human scope of human activity, in which personality can “open up” (unlike the areas of work and creation). Judging ability appears in this context as a foundation, thanks to which a person becomes able to act: ethical worldview exists in terms of evaluation of something that exists in relation to something due. An action in this context is an active embodiment of a certain worldview position that “unfolds” itself precisely in the area of ethics while being involved in interpersonal interaction. Arendt claimed that an action, due to its nature, is unpredictable and that every human being, who dares to take it, risks getting, in the end, a result that is far from their intentions. Exactly because of it, an action exists in the actor’s biography and the fabrics of interpersonal connections simultaneously – it is the latter, which gives the space for interpretation of an actor’s actions significance. Thus, the individual biography becomes the thing that makes sense only through the prism of interpersonal interaction and mutual interpretations of individual stories.

scholarly journals Folk art traditions in modern culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Liuchiia Igorevna Sorokina ◽  
Natal'ya Andreevna Pryamkova
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Applied Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Creative Experience ◽  
Folk Tradition

The subject of this research is traditional folk decorative and applied art in the context of modern society. The authors reviews the factors that affected the formation of this art form, the role of collective creative experience, the canon for preserving archaic images, symbols and manufacturing technique. The article reveals the conditions of familiarizing youth with the folk tradition, indicating the importance of continuity of generations. Since each artwork is the synthesis of tradition and creativity, attention is drawn to the possibility of interpreting traditional experience in the products of craftsmen. By referring to the facts from the history of the Romanov’s pottery and toy craft, the author provides examples of the emergence of new plotlines in the conditions of changing sociocultural situation, and analyzes their correspondence with the tradition. The application of dialectical method demonstrates fusions of the tradition and novelties in folk art of the past and modernity. The authors’ contribution consists in identification of the causes of the current crisis state of traditional folk decorative and applied art. The article analyzes various measures, including the creation of manufacturing groups in the XX century, which were aimed at its preservation. The experience of the previous generations of professional and folk artisans allows tracing the peculiarities in the development of crafts, such as correlation between the traditional and innovative. The authors examines the necessary conditions for continuity of traditions of folk culture in modern civilization, which requires deliberate actions.

scholarly journals SOCIALIZATION IN SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF LONG-TERM CHARACTER

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Valeriy HEYETS ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

The preconditions and character of the “new normality” in the development of modern society are considered, the main features of which are the rapidity of change and the expansion of conflict, which incessantly dismantles barriers to the so-called “creative disorder.” As a result, public life is chaotic with a still unclear institutional world, where uncertainty and unpredictability, on the one hand, can no longer be limited to decisions of nation-states, and on the other, a set of signs of such normalcy, internalizing, forms dissatisfaction and protest. The set of current changes and social transformations has the characteristic features of the cycle with a special introduction to it and new content. However, there is a coincidence with a number of signs of the “dark centuries” of the Middle Ages. The way out of them was connected both with the socialization of technological transfer of cultural heritage in the process of assimilation of accumulated knowledge, and with the use of cultural capital of the past. All this, through the exteriorization activity of the individual, gave rise to the institutional conditionality for self-realization in the formation of the capitalist world. The possibility of such self-realization formed the basis of the dialectic of the formation and development of the social world of capitalism. Thus, socialization as a process of human assimilation of social ways of life and culture provided then and can provide today a social transformation of long-term nature in terms of movement from the current dominant importance of cosmopolitan universalization of the liberally organized market, which gave rise to the current crisis in society and the economy, to the evolutionary and institutional development of the economy and social transformations, through which there was a way out of the crisis and overcoming the challenges of modernity. The basis of such transformation is the mechanism of transformation of social reality on the basis of socialization on the way to a new social quality as a resource of development.

A Sinister Seduction of Modern Society

2001 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 494-495
Author(s):  
Rodney Cotterill
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society
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