Postmoderna konstrukcija realnosti pri Baudrillardu in Virilioju kot izziv za teologijo : [magistrsko delo]

Erlah, Sebastjan (author), Klun, Branko (mentor)

Živimo v dobi, ki jo velikokrat označujemo kot postmoderna. V dobi, v kateri za razliko od moderne dobe avtonomni subjekt izgine in človeštvo spozna svojo radikalno pogojenost od drugega. Prav tako s prizorišča izgine zadnji razlagalec stvarnosti, pojavi se radikalna pluralnost filozofskih smeri. Realnost postane razumljena kot konstruirana v smislu, da volja subjekta vzpostavlja pomene, ta pomenska mreža pa nima več stika z realnostjo kot tako. Pri postmoderni konstrukciji realnosti imajo veliko vlogo mediji. Francoska misleca Jean Baudrillard in Paul Virilio sta analizirala, kako se odnos do realnosti vzpostavlja preko vpliva medijev. Izziv za teologijo je, kako s svojim vztrajanjem, da je Bog zadnja stvarnost, vstopiti v dialog s postmoderno miselnostjo in vanjo inkulturirati sporočilo evangelija. Inkulturacija evangelija v postmoderno družbo ni mogoča, če družbo, v kateri se nahajamo, vnaprej zavračamo. Možna je le tako, da sprejmemo dejansko stanje in znotraj tega nastopimo kot oznanjevalci evangelija. Pri tem ni več bistveno vprašanje, ali naj uporabljamo sodobne tehnologije, ki čedalje bolj postajajo substitucija našemu telesu, niti ni več bistveno vprašanje, ali je potrošniška družba sprejemljiva ali ne in kako se od nje odvrniti. Bistveno vprašanje, ki se postavlja, je, kako uporabljati sodobno tehnologijo znotraj porabniške družbe, da bo Kristusov nauk slišen in bo hkrati obrodil vidne sadove v medčloveških odnosih in odnosih človeka z Bogom.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: postmoderna, hiperrealno, simulacija, substitucija, mediji, politika, evangelizacija, teologija.
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.09 - Master's Thesis
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: [S. Erlah]
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: IV, 92 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-108008
• UDC: 141.78:27-1(043.2)
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8145498
• Publication date in RUL: 11.06.2019

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Postmodern construction of reality by Baudrillard and Virilio as a challenge for theology

Abstract

We live in an era often called the postmodern era. In comparison with the modern era, this is an era in which an autonomous subject has disappeared and humanity has become aware of being radically determined by the other. At the same time, the last interpreter of the reality has disappeared and a radical plurality of philosophical directions has appeared. Reality is understood as constructed in the sense that the subject’s will establishes meanings, yet this web of meanings does not have any connection with the reality as such. The media have played a large role in the postmodern construction of reality. French philosophers Jean Baudrillard and Paul Virilio analyzed how the relation to reality is established through the influence of media. The challenge of theology is to discover how to enter into a dialogue with the postmodern mentality and inculturate into it the gospel message while insisting that God is the last reality. The inculturation of the gospel into the postmodern society is not possible if we reject the society in which we live. It is only possible if we accept the reality and act as witnesses of the gospel within it. Therefore, the question whether to use modern technologies, which are becoming more and more the substitutes of our bodies, is no longer relevant. The same can be said about the question whether a consumer society is acceptable or not and how to turn away from it – it is also no longer relevant. The essential question that has to be asked is how we can use modern technologies inside the consumer society to make Christ’s teachings heard and bear fruit that would be visible in interpersonal relationships and in personal relationships with God.

• Keywords: postmodern, hyperreal, simulation, substitution, media, politics, evangelization, theology.