Escape from arbitrariness : Legitimation crisis of real
socialism and the imaginary of modernity

J 2021

Escape from arbitrariness : Legitimation crisis of real socialism and the imaginary of modernity

ŚWIREK, Krzysztof a Pavel POSPĚCH

Základní údaje

Originální název

Escape from arbitrariness : Legitimation crisis of real socialism and the imaginary of modernity

Autoři

ŚWIREK, Krzysztof a Pavel POSPĚCH

Vydání

European Journal of Social Theory, London, SAGE Publications, 2021, 1368-4310

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50401 Sociology

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 1.766

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/21:00120599

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

Arbitrariness; market economy; modernity; post-socialism; socialism

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 19. 2. 2021 11:25, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

The 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe and the subsequent transitions have commonly been interpreted in political terms, as movements towards democracy, or in economic terms, as escape from the command economy towards the free market. We revisit the problem to suggest a different reading. We argue that in the legitimization crisis of real socialism, a pivotal role was played by the burden of social oversaturation and bureaucratic arbitrariness, which met its desired alternative in social imaginaries of impersonal, objective social system. For the citizens of Central and East European countries, this fantasy was matched by the promise of the free market, which was morally contrasted to the experience of daily life under late socialism. We argue that this desire to escape from arbitrariness to objectivity is a particularly strong motive in the imaginary of modernity which found one of its historical manifestations in the disappointment with real socialism.

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Escape_from_arbitrariness.pdf

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Citovat

ŚWIREK, Krzysztof a Pavel POSPĚCH. Escape from arbitrariness : Legitimation crisis of real socialism and the imaginary of modernity. European Journal of Social Theory. London: SAGE Publications, 2021, roč. 24, č. 1, s. 140-159. ISSN 1368-4310. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431020908587.

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