Toward a transfiguration of the world
The social construction of experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10565963 |
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| Authors | Csaba Szaló (0000-0002-5627-6183, Masaryk University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 345-356 |
| Publication date | 1995-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Czech Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0288 • E-ISSN: 2336-128X |
| Publisher | Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • CZ) |
| DOI | 10.13060/00380288.1995.31.3.05 |
| OpenAlex | W3033758101 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The erosion of modern cultural authority is a characteristic feature of the contemporary post-modern condition. The emergence and dissemination of heretical discourses displace the apolitical self-evidence and universality of modern experience. This article attempts to depict recent cultural transfigurations of experience in three dimensions. Firstly, the erosion of modern political discourse suggests that history, progress, state, nation and society have lost their charisma of self-evidence. These cornerstones of modern political experience are disclosed as socially constructed imaginary totalisation. Secondly, the representation of gender as a social construct reveals the falsehood of essential human experience. Gender, as an example of otherness, shows that the construction of experience is closely linked to a power/knowledge nexus. Thirdly, Nietzsche's metaphor of language as a prison allows the role of discursive practices in the constitution of experience to be outlined. This article argues for a non-foundationalist perspective, which grasps the mediated character of experience, and accepts the condition of uncertainty produced by the play of ambiguity and power
Aesthetics · Art · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
| Highly cited | No |
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