Transparentní společnost

A fully informed view of the world (the media is a determinant in it, in both a negative and positive sense) changes society and the social scenario - the notions of democracy and truth change. Instead of individual experience, media experience takes the place of individual experience, and one finds one's roots and identity only if one looks at oneself from the pages of a newspaper, from television or the Internet; otherwise one wanders through the world uprooted and without personality. How does mediatization change our existence and reality without wanting to demonize the mediated world or resist it with unnecessary nostalgia? What have myths in the communication society been transformed into? Does it still make sense to talk about progress and revolution? What do we lack for happiness and what are the aesthetics in an informed society?

The book The Transparent Society (the author, Gianni Vattimo, is a well-known Italian philosopher in Europe and the Americas) has been translated into many languages and its contents have become part of the social discourse in most civilized countries to the benefit of the former: what useless platitudes and ridiculous blunders our politicians, TV debaters and artists could forgive if they knew this book!

Czech edition