Aug 2026· Nauki o Wychowaniu Studia Interdyscyplinarne· 0 citations
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This article examines a context that is critical for understanding contemporary transformations in socio-cultural reality, with a particular focus on broadly understood educational practice. Specifically, it addresses dehumanization, and more precisely, the variant which may be called self-dehumanization. The analysis proceeds in two stages. First, the phenomenon of self-imposed dehumanisation is conceptualized using selected themes from the humanist tradition of mass society analysis (Znaniecki, Ortega y Gasset, Oakeshott, Sloterdijk). Second, the article poses a series of questions regarding the relationship between contemporary education and the core elements of self-dehumanization: the culture of cynicism, the ontology of ingratitude, intellectual-ethical inertia, and resentment. The discussion seeks to invite further examination of education as a potential environment for dehumanization and, above all, the tendency among educational actors toward self-degradation, a topic that remains underexplored in pedagogical theory and is often overlooked in educational practice.
This conceptual study examines how selected cultural and social theories explain human well-being, social order, and the search for meaning. Rather than attempting to rank all cultural theories empirically, the article evaluates the explanatory usefulness of perspectives that address social integration, motivation, ali...
Elza Mammadova, Amal Huseynov· Porta Universorum· 0 citations
The article explores the phenomenon of collective feat as a special form of value-laden action rooted in historical memory, civic identity, and the spiritual and moral culture of society. It shows that collective heroism is only possible provided there are patriotic attitudes that are formed during the process of socia...
S. Nevzorov· Vestnik Sibirskogo gosudarst...· 0 citations
There is confusion around the definition of the term archetype with highly problematic and contradictory conceptualizations continued to the present day. As a solution for this problem the author argues that Jung‘s conceptualization of archetype theory is not one coherent theory, but contains four different theories...
Christian Roesler· Journal of Analytical Psycho...· 0 citations
The aim of the paper is to draw attention to the question of ultimate meanings in literary studies and its utilization for the sake of betterment of society. It starts with a view on how societies interpret their cultural products through Marxism, but not only pure Marxism but its combination with psychoanalysis, espec...
Božica Jović· European Journal of Literary...· 0 citations
How does the theme of the other–-as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme—allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts? This book employs phenomenology and semiotics to argue that modern literature is strongly concerned with the role of time in the construction of the self.
Alterity and Cr...
Melaney D. William· 0 citations
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