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Between Eros and Agape. Naturalistic-cultural contexts of postmodern partner relationships
Mirosław Piechowiak
Abstract
One of the basic assumptions in the discussed dissertation was an attempt to draw attention to the problems of human relations, in particular the broad contexts of love present in partner relationships in the postmodern world, deformed by the consumer markets of the capitalist society. Having the conviction that the atmosphere of consumption filled with precisely configured systems arousing a variety of sensual desires is the principal modality in which love is realized nowadays, I observe that today love becomes not so much a constitutive phenomenon of partner relationship but rather an object of desire for a particular, strongly emancipated individual. Love present in commercials is accompanied by the message that everyone can achieve professional success that allows to acquire all the material goods that should be associated with success in love. Despite the fact that deeper emotions are "misunderstood" in postmodern times, I assume that the postmodern man is not (need not be) destined to experience a deficit of feelings. I, therefore, perceive partner love as a phenomenon, attainable nowadays, constructed on the basis of sexual strategies of seduction, sensual desire (appreciation of sensual carnality, as in Ludwig Feuerbach's philosophy), continued in the desire to be "for", manifesting itself in self-sacrifice and asymmetrical responsibility for the Other.- Record ID
- UAM24b8df3d319a44c8ae794ac4aed05170
- Diploma type
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Author
- Title in Polish
- Pomiędzy Erosem i Agape. Naturalistyczno – kulturowe konteksty ponowoczesnych relacji partnerskich
- Title in English
- Between Eros and Agape. Naturalistic-cultural contexts of postmodern partner relationships
- Language
- pol (pl) Polish
- Certifying Unit
- Faculty of Social Sciences (FoSS)
- Discipline
- philosophy / (humanities) / (humanities)
- Scientific discipline (2.0)
- Status
- Finished
- Defense Date
- 27-06-2014
- Title date
- 27-06-2014
- Supervisor
- URL
- http://hdl.handle.net/10593/11007 Opening in a new tab
- Keywords in English
- postmodernism; love; relationship; sensuality; dialogue
- Abstract in English
- One of the basic assumptions in the discussed dissertation was an attempt to draw attention to the problems of human relations, in particular the broad contexts of love present in partner relationships in the postmodern world, deformed by the consumer markets of the capitalist society. Having the conviction that the atmosphere of consumption filled with precisely configured systems arousing a variety of sensual desires is the principal modality in which love is realized nowadays, I observe that today love becomes not so much a constitutive phenomenon of partner relationship but rather an object of desire for a particular, strongly emancipated individual. Love present in commercials is accompanied by the message that everyone can achieve professional success that allows to acquire all the material goods that should be associated with success in love. Despite the fact that deeper emotions are "misunderstood" in postmodern times, I assume that the postmodern man is not (need not be) destined to experience a deficit of feelings. I, therefore, perceive partner love as a phenomenon, attainable nowadays, constructed on the basis of sexual strategies of seduction, sensual desire (appreciation of sensual carnality, as in Ludwig Feuerbach's philosophy), continued in the desire to be "for", manifesting itself in self-sacrifice and asymmetrical responsibility for the Other.
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://researchportal.amu.edu.pl/info/phd/UAM24b8df3d319a44c8ae794ac4aed05170/
- URN
urn:amu-prod:UAM24b8df3d319a44c8ae794ac4aed05170