NEW MODES OF EMOTIONS IN MODERN CULTURE

Abstract

The relevance of the study of the emergence of new affective states is related to the political and cultural context: global catastrophes, disillusionment with the idea of universal justice and good, doubt about the universality of humanism and Enlightenment ideas. The purpose of the study is to identify new modes of modern emotional culture (awkwardness, post-irony, new sincerity, cringe). Post-irony allows a person, while remaining in a gray moral zone, to express skepticism about the clarity and comprehensibility of the world, and the new sincerity provides tools for reassembling the world and the soul wounded by totalitarian regimes, wars and terrorist attacks in art, which is studied on literary material, therefore the main method of research is hermeneutic. The ideological separation between post-ironic populist politicians and snowflakes adhering to the norms of the new ethics is analyzed. It is assumed that at the individual level, these new modes of emotions and feelings are not only not harmful, but, on the contrary, have a therapeutic effect.

Keywords

• new sincerity
• kringe
• post-irony
• new ethics
• history of emotions
• postmodernism
• metamodernism