Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 25 No. 2, 2010.
Original scientific paper
Postmodern Challenges to Animal Symbolicum
Gordana Jovanović
; University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract
Taking into account the significance of symbolization for human individual development, as well as for historical development of mankind, a question of transformations of symbolization under postmodern conditions has been raised. The aim is to show that behind the postmodern carnivals of signs and ecstasy of communication a deep desymbolization of the subjective as well of the social is occurring. As a consequence of such processes, conditions of possibility of reflection and social critique are disappearing. Thus, under the banner of postmodernity, animal symbolicum is becoming an animal desymbolicum, living in a social desert, unable to transcend its local experience as it has dissolved general notions and endangered symbolic order. It seems it has fallen into a deep historical and social amnesia.
Keywords
modernity; postmodernity; symbolization; desymbolization; communication; sign; animal symbolicum; social critique
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68516
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Publication date:
19.5.2011.
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