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Conformity and the Need for Roots
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Graczyk, Piotr |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | Human tongues are fundamentally political – they are weapons in the quest for cultural hegemony, which decides about the unequal division of labour and power within human societies. On the other hand, language may be a material for utopia – thanks to its universal character. Both the construction of political institutions and the creation of utopias may be called literature. Thus, management and literature are synonyms. One can distinguish three levels of literature's thickness. First level, the toughest one, is the ontological level – it answers the question about what exists. The second, softer one, is the nomothetic (or architectural) level. It forces its users to react: it is like a door that can be opened or closed. The third one is literature proper. It is the most flexible layer of social literature. It may be used to design and test new social and institutional constellations. In the text, three literary examples of social designing are discussed: two novels by Ursula Le Guin (The Dispossessed and Always Coming Home) and an essay by Simone Weil (The Need for Roots). What is at stake in these three books is the relation of conformity (understood as the inevitable tool of socialization) and freedom. But freedom is possible only within a particular social tradition – since the tradition of resistance is its part. Book Name: Aesthetics, Organization, and Humanistic Management |
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| Ending Page | 72 |
| Page Count | 14 |
| Starting Page | 59 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003091530-6 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-09-26 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Aesthetics, Organization, and Humanistic Management Cultural Studies Conformity Freedom Utopias Need for Roots Social Political Human Societies Roots Human |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
