Lektury pożyteczne (II)
Journal Title: Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne - Year 2012, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
The text constitutes a discussion of several books that have been published in France recently. These are works in political studies La Nouvelle raison du monde. Essai sur la société néolibérale by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval – an outstanding Marxist criticism of neoliberalism pointing out all dangers deriving from this political system), philosophy (a thorough historical analysis of the phenomenon of Raymond Boudon’s rationality or a great essay by Jean-Luc Nancy devoted to drawing) and cultural studies (an essay by Pascal Bruckner) on masochism in the culture of the West, and an outstanding work by Jacques Rancière’ flourishly written constituting a thorough analysis of the world artistic modernism). Le texte constitue une présentation de quelques livres, parus en France au cours de dernières années. Ce sont des études du domaine de politologie La Nouvelle raison du monde. Essai sur la société néolibérale de Pierre Dardot et Christian Laval – une excellente critique marxiste du néolibéralisme, qui accentue tous les dangers résultant de ce système politique), de philosophie (une perspicace analyse historique du phénomène de rationalisme de Raymond Boudon ou un essai formidable de Jean-Luc Nancy, consacré au dessein), d’études culturelles (essai de Pascal Bruckner, consacré au masochisme dans la culture occidentale et un extraordinaire texte d’une grande portée de Jacques Rancière – une analyse profonde du modernisme artistique mondial).
Authors and Affiliations
Adam Dziadek
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