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The monograph it attempts to identify the definitions of the past, present, and future used by Polish political elites in electoral discourse from 1989 to 2015. It aims not just to identify these definitions, but to compare and contrast them, and show how they evolved over this period. At all times, the dominant definitions were a resource of temporal consciousness for society. For this reason, they can be taken as a basis for scholarly "diagnosis." They can reveal key insights not only into social imaginations of the three dimensions of time, but into social change itself. Therefore, the fundamental aim of this work is to show how society developed its approach to the past, present, and future from 1989 to 2015.
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Key words: social time - the past - the present - the future - politics - communism - post-communism - social change - transformation
Part I THE PAST: DOMINANCE OF COMMUNISM
Part II THE PRESENT: FROM TIME TOGETHER TO "HERE AND NOW"
Part III THE FUTURE: TIME TO REMEDY THE PRESENT
About the author
Piotr Borowiec is Assistant Professor at the Department of Theory and Methodology of Politics, Institute of Political Science and International Relations, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. His research interests focus on the shifts in modern politics, political science, and political sociology and theory.
