Proces rozwoju zachodniej cywilizacji w amerykańskiej myśli II połowy XX wieku

Jadwiga Błahut-Prusik

Published: 2018-10-161

No. 8 (2002)

Development Process of the Western Civilization in American Thought of the Second Half of XX Century

Jadwiga Błahut-Prusik

Abstract

The article portrays how relationships between human beings, nature, their products and themselves have changed within the space of centuries. The fundamental intention is to show variables which are at the basis of the historic process. The foundation of this analysis is a tendency to separate three basic breakthroughs in human history: the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution and the post-industrial revolution. They are especially characteristic of contemporary American philosophy. Each of these stages of the development of civilisation entails radical transformation of all the components pertaining to human existence. The relationships between human beings, exterior reality, space and time are changing. Former contexts disappear and the world demands new ideas, conceptions and justifications. At every stage, the human being looks for a new frame of reference that defines his place in the world. And history goes on...

Keywords:

time, timeless time, industrial civilization, information, informationalism, space, space of flows, nature, agricultural revolution, virtual reality, net, network society

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Błahut-Prusik, J. (2018). Development Process of the Western Civilization in American Thought of the Second Half of XX Century. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (8), 59–78. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/hip/article/view/1748

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