Postwar creations of strangers and estrangement: Notes on the ways to recovery and normalization

Bańka Augustyn ()
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Bańka Augustyn: University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS), Department in Katowice, ul. Kossutha 9, 40-844 Katowice, tel. 32 750 60 80

Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, 2012, vol. 18, issue 1-2, 9-28

Abstract: This paper is an attempt at exploring the phenomenon of creation of strangers and estrangement as post-war trauma effects. It starts with an observation that post-war is a mental state manifesting itself in individuals as estrangement from themselves, environment, other people, and from the very meaning of life. The post-war trauma triggers a tendency for recovery and normalization of life, which, however, never ends. The paper focuses mainly on four aspects. Firstly, critical moments of the evolution of post-war periods in Europe are discussed, starting with the end of war until now. Secondly, the evolution of change in mental moral grammar in specific post-war periods is looked upon. Thirdly, paths to recovery and normalization through the creation of strangers and estrangement in consecutive, critical post-war periods are indicated. Lastly, this paper tries to present the paradoxes of all the periods of the post-war syndrome.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.2478/v10241-012-0025-3

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