Modernity and Ambivalence
Zygmunt Bauman
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 0745612423
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Know from the worried accounts narrated by intellectuals, the appointed or self-appointed interpreters of social experience. The narrators are never absent from their narration, though, and it is a hopeless task to try to sift out their presence from their stories. It may well be that at all times there was life outside philosophy, and that such life did not share the worries of the narrators; that it did quite well without being regimented by rationally proved and philosophically approved.
If consistent, it entails not just a strategy through which the order can be introduced, but also a strategy allowing it to be kept henceforth intact and immune to all and any ‘disturbing factors’. The imagination of the rationalizers is tempted by the prospect of a state of ultimate and stable perfection: one from which the very possibility of challenge to the established order will have been eliminated. The implementation of such a vision requires, however, the suppression or neutralization of.
Again the harrowing experience of ambivalence: they would forever obsessively scrutinize and censure other bearers of the hereditary stigma they wished to obliterate – but only to find to their dismay that the dreamt-of moment of disarmament and rest was no closer than before.40 By the end of the nineteenth century (at least in continental Europe, and in Germany more than anywhere else), the universalist armour of the ‘man as such’ lost much of its original shine. It continued to glitter, if at.
Inconclusiveness and prospectlessness of assimilatory efforts, the social configuration sedimented by the policy of assimilation remained a trap from which there were few, if any, exits. It was, presumably, the profound and continuous isolation of the victims of assimilatory dreams which prompted the astounding steadfastness with which the majority of German Jews stuck to their guns through thick and thin. Probably for the objective or subjective lack of other realistic options, they resolutely.
Archaeologist, the analyst ‘draws his inferences from the fragments of memories, from the associations and from the behaviour of the subject of analysis ... But it is a “construction” when one lays before the subject of the analysis a piece of his early history that he has forgotten.’ Is there any guarantee that the reconstruction is faithful to the actual events? Is it the truth, the one and only, that the analyst lays before the analysand? ‘It may seem, that no general reply can in any event be.