Pseudo-Concrete Ideals of a Good Life

• Authors: Erich Mistrík
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

What has happened in the late and concluding stages of postmodern culture is that concrete ideas of a good life have been reduced to pseudo-concrete ideals. With the aid of simulacra, the experience of everyday life is turning into a show, into narcissistic emptiness and single bodily pleasures.

Keywords

EN

postmodern culture; body; pleasure; beauty

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 151-160

Dates

published

2008-12-01

online

2008-12-29

Contributors

author

Erich Mistrík

• Department of Ethical and Civic Education, Faculty of Education, Comenius University, Račianska 59 813 34 Bratislava Slovak Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10023-008-0015-3