Dilemma of Facedness and Facelessness in the Social-Cultural Context of Mass Society
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https://doi.org/10.46991/BYSU:E/2015.6.1.003Keywords:
face, mask, facelessness, individuality, crowd, man of a crowd, mass culture, mankurtAbstract
The article considers the problem of transformation of individuality in the social-cultural context of contemporary mass society. One of the peculiar social-cultural characteristics of contemporary word is that the individual is viewed as a social creature that has individuality. However the contemporary man who has the right of being individuality runs into defacing, one-dimensionalising elements of mass culture which has emerged as a result of some civilizational, political and cultural transformations. Regularities peculiar to the crowd function within mass culture and as a result being subjected to dissolving, defacing influence of mass crowd one encounters the risk of losing the uniqueness of one’s own face.
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