WHY INTELLECTUALS ARE NOT DANGEROUS FOR REAL POWER, WHY THEIR POWER IS DANGEROUS
IA REGNUM published a review on the book “Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” by Frederick Jameson issued by Publishing house of the Gaidar Institute.
Dmitry Buyanov, author of the article, wrote in his annotation: “Social and political fight is still associated here with leaders, ideologists, intellectuals educating and leading people towards changes. However, this scheme reached crisis already in the 1970-s in the West, which dramatically changed (or killed?) classical politics. Is Russia experiencing a similar crisis having joined capitalism and what will be its outcome?”
“Publication of a work devoted to the Western past turns out to be strangely relevant for Russia. We are also in a “limbo” state: intelligentsia betrayed people not only having “sailed under false colors” of Perestroika but also cynically trampled upon all values and ideals that they promoted for decades (if not “hammered into their heads”) to Soviet people. Our analogue of a "Social Democrat" worked more with elite against masses rather than with people against the ruling class. What politics in Russia should look like after that and who should recreate it. This is an open question.
This is not a literal situation of Western postmodernism but in fact, we understand postmodernism quite “original”, through the prism of our own experience,” author summarized.
Please, find full text of review here.
“Publication of a work devoted to the Western past turns out to be strangely relevant for Russia. We are also in a “limbo” state: intelligentsia betrayed people not only having “sailed under false colors” of Perestroika but also cynically trampled upon all values and ideals that they promoted for decades (if not “hammered into their heads”) to Soviet people. Our analogue of a "Social Democrat" worked more with elite against masses rather than with people against the ruling class. What politics in Russia should look like after that and who should recreate it. This is an open question.
This is not a literal situation of Western postmodernism but in fact, we understand postmodernism quite “original”, through the prism of our own experience,” author summarized.
Please, find full text of review here.