@misc{Tomaszewski_Piotr_Społeczeństwo_2024,
 author={Tomaszewski, Piotr},
 copyright={Copyright by Pracownia Badań Orientalnych, Katedra Doktryn Politycznych i Prawnych Wydziału Prawa, Administracji i Ekonomii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego & Autors},
 address={Wrocław},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2024},
 publisher={Wydział Prawa, Administracji i Ekonomii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego},
 language={pol},
 abstract={The purpose of this article is a comparative analysis of several selected political-legal and sociological analyses of the phenomenon of mass society. The first part of the article analyses it in the context of the democratization process that progressed in the 19th century. The authors whose perspectives I use in this part are Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill. The second part of the article looks at the period at the turn of the 20th century, when certain phenomena associated with the emergence of mass societies proved to be fertile ground for the rise of totalitarianism. The authors whose criticism is used in this section are Gustave Le Bon and Hannah Arendt. In the third part of the article, I use the writings of authors who described Western mass societies after World War II - Erich Fromm, David Riesman and again Hannah Arendt. All three authors posed paradoxical theses, boiling down to the fact that the phenomenon of massification led to the loneliness of the individuals who formed them. The last part of the text shows the critique of mass culture in Herbert Marcuse's book One-Dimensional Man, chosen as a representative example of the ideology of the May '68 revolt, which the author of the text interprets, among other things, as an expression of opposition to the standardization of human existence, which was inherent in all major critiques of mass society.},
 type={text},
 type={Journal},
 title={Społeczeństwo masowe i jego wybrani krytycy w historii myśli politycznej i prawnej. Od de Tocqueville’a do Marcusego},
 doi={https://doi.org/10.34616/151192},
 keywords={John Stuart Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave Le Bon, Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse},
}