283 research outputs found
Charms of the Cynical Reason
No full textThe impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable and fascinating literary and cinematic images of soviet and post-Soviet tricksters, including such “cultural idioms” as Ostap Bender, Buratino, Vasilii Tyorkin, Stierlitz, and others. Soviet tricksters present survival in a cynical, contradictory, and inadequate world, not as a necessity, but as a field for creativity, play, and freedom. Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, Lipovetsky attempts to draw a virtual map of the soviet and post-Soviet cynical reason: to identify its symbols, discourses, and contradictions, and by these means its historical development from the 1920s to the 2000s
Charms of the Cynical Reason
No full textThe impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable and fascinating literary and cinematic images of soviet and post-Soviet tricksters, including such “cultural idioms” as Ostap Bender, Buratino, Vasilii Tyorkin, Stierlitz, and others. Soviet tricksters present survival in a cynical, contradictory, and inadequate world, not as a necessity, but as a field for creativity, play, and freedom. Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, Lipovetsky attempts to draw a virtual map of the soviet and post-Soviet cynical reason: to identify its symbols, discourses, and contradictions, and by these means its historical development from the 1920s to the 2000s
Charms of the Cynical Reason: Tricksters in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
No full textThe impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable and fascinating literary and cinematic images of soviet and post-Soviet tricksters, including such “cultural idioms” as Ostap Bender, Buratino, Vasilii Tyorkin, Stierlitz, and others. Soviet tricksters present survival in a cynical, contradictory, and inadequate world, not as a necessity, but as a field for creativity, play, and freedom. Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, Lipovetsky attempts to draw a virtual map of the soviet and post-Soviet cynical reason: to identify its symbols, discourses, and contradictions, and by these means its historical development from the 1920s to the 2000s
“Eto prosto bukvy na bumage...” Vladimir Sorokin: Posle literatury (“It’s just letters on paper...” Vladimir Sorokin: After the Literature)
No full textThis volume is devoted to the leading contemporary Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin (b. 1955). The articles included in the collection are focused both on general principles of his poetics and individual works: texts written in the late Soviet underground, his post-Soviet bestsellers, plays, screenplays and films. Sorokin is seen here not only as a writer, but also as a media figure who created his own personal myth. The book consists of the most important works written about Sorokin for several decades, throughout his literary career, as well as new articles and Sorokin’s selected interviews
Pussy Riot as the Trickstar
No full textIn his article, Mark Lipovetsky analyses Pussy Riot’s punk-prayer and the public discussion following the event. The author situates Pussy Riot’s performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour as the cultural return to and rebirth of the trickster trope – which was extremely powerful in the Soviet period but visibly declined in its cultural significance in post-Soviet times. At the background of this tradition, Pussy Riot represents a rare case of the trickstar (Marylyn Jurich), a female trickster, undermining not only socio-political but first and foremost the gender regime of the society, challenging sexism and gender repression. Analyzing Pussy Riot’s performance and its perception, Lipovetsky’s article argues that the Pussy Riot debate has revealed such flaws in the liberal discourse as the silent equation of moral values with religious doctrines; hierarchical, essentialist and, basically, pre-modern, understanding of culture (rejecting contemporary art for the lack of “harmony”); and, most importantly, the allegiance to patriarchal stereotypes. The shared values that are responsible for these flaws, appear not so different from the conservatives’ rage against “blasphemy” and the assault on the national “spiritual ties” (“dukhovnye skrepy”, to use Putin’s words); aggressive “defence” of “eternal” moral/religious values epitomized by the disgust towards contemporary art. The discourse triggered by Pussy Riot within the liberal intelligentsia reveal the hypocrisy of the liberal opposition, which supported “girls” only as the irritant to their enemies, while not so secretly despising them as silly manipulated puppets who should be physically punished for their shameful transgression. Furthermore, this debate laid bare the responsibility of neo-traditionalist ideology, shared by many representatives of liberal intelligentsia, for the Putin regime’s ideology
G. Lipovetsky: The Painless Ethics
No full textThe bachelor thesis follows and critically interprets the proposition about the development of ethics and morality in Le Crépuscule du devoir by Gilles Lipovetsky on the specific examples of the approaches towards ethics that are noted by author himself. The thesis clarifies in which cases is his philosophical and sociological diagnosis, analysis and prediction justified and where it is on the contrary problematic and why. His general proposition is that contemporary moral "boom" is actually a "shock" and not only a "comeback" or a "revitalization" of the traditional morality. According to him, it would be no exaggeration to say that contemporary morality is definitely leaving the traditional one behind. The ambition of the thesis is to understand previous periods of ethical thought, defined by Lipovetsky as religious and lay ethics, and also to clarify the character and typical manifestations of his "postmoral ethics of the third type" with neither religious nor lay basis in form of duty. The thesis analyses the tension and inner discrepancies of that "painless" ethics stated by Lipovetsky. The aim is also to justify the "applied ethics of responsibility" formulated by Lipovetsky, which is to be set in the period of "the twilight of duty"
Sorokin i rozhenie novoi russkoi literatury" ("Sorokin and the Birth of a New Russian Literature")
No full textThis chapter analyses Sorokin's role in decoding of Socialist Realist literary conventions and cliches
La ligereza como nueva forma de vida: entrevista con Gilles Lipovetsky para un análisis del presente
No full textIn this interview, French sociologist Gilles Lipovetsky, world-renowned for his work on fashion, consumption and hypermodern societies, analyzes some of the cross-cutting aspects of his work, especially on the last of his analytical contributions: the society of lightness. I introduce this interview with a critical reading of Lipovetsky\u27s theories to contextualize and problematize his postulates, with a view to collecting the author\u27s contributions that allow a contextualized analysis of the present.En esta entrevista el sociólogo francés Gilles Lipovetsky, mundialmente reconocido por sus trabajos sobre la moda, el consumo y las sociedades hipermodernas, analiza algunos de los aspectos transversales de su obra, especialmente sobre la última de sus contribuciones analíticas: la sociedad de la ligereza. Introduzco esta entrevista con una lectura crítica a las teorías de Lipovetsky para contextualizar y problematizar sus postulados, con miras a recoger las contribuciones del autor que permitan un análisis contextualizado del presente
Ética e religião em Gilles Lipovetsky: uma análise da obra A sociedade pós-moralista
No full textA presente dissertação expõe o pensamento de Gilles Lipovetsky, analisando de forma
específica a obra A sociedade pós-moralista, na qual o autor trata detalhadamente da questão
ética na contemporaneidade. No âmbito da tradição filosófica francesa, Lipovetsky propõe um
estudo de fenômenos sociais mais específicos, tendo como objeto central a sociedade
hipermoderna. Nesta sociedade determinada pelo consumo, a ética coloca-se sob novos
parâmetros. Na obra supracitada, o autor dedica-se a compreender os paradoxos que circulam
as discussões em torno da questão ética, constatando que uma ética do pós-dever, cujo
propósito se volta para a satisfação plena dos desejos subjetivos dos indivíduos nas mais
variadas ações, determina hoje as relações sociais dos indivíduos nas esferas sociais. A teoria
do autor a respeito da ética do pós-dever traz elementos significativos para uma melhor
compreensão da questão religiosa, sobretudo em sua dimensão ética. As contribuições do
autor apontam para a emergência de uma religião secularizada a gravitar no cenário social
dado, cujas características são expostas nesta dissertação. Ao contrapor as considerações de
Lipovetsky com as teorias de outros autores, é possível perceber a existência de pontos
convergentes e divergentes nas propostas éticas que eles apresentam. A análise de Lipovetsky
se mostra pertinente para a discussão de uma possível ética global, comum a todos os povosThe present dissertation exposes the thought of Gilles Lipovetsky by examining specifically his book The post-moralistic society, in which the author treats in detail the ethical issue in contemporaneity. Under the French philosophical tradition scope, Lipovetsky proposes a study of more specific social phenomenons, by having as central object the hypermodern society. In this society determined by consumption, the ethics puts itself under new parameters. In the book mentioned above, the author is dedicated to understanding the paradoxes that circulate the discussions around the ethical issue, he notes that an ethics of post-obligation, whose purposes is the full satisfaction of the subjective desires of individuals in the most variety of actions, today determines the social relations of individuals in the social spheres. The author's theory concerning to the ethics of post-obligation brings significant elements for a better understanding of the religious issue, especially in its ethical dimension. The contributions of the author pointed to the emergence of a secularized religion to gravitate in the given social setting, whose characteristics are exposed in this dissertation. By opposing the considerations of Lipovetsky with the theories of other authors, it is possible to realize the existence of convergent and divergent points in the ethical proposals that they present. Lipovetsky's analysis shows itself pertinent to the discussion concerning to the possibility of a global ethics, common to all peoplesCoordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superio
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