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

Hrčak ID:

68516

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/68516

Publication date:

19.5.2011.

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