ABSTRACT
A humanistic discourse about the quality of a contemporary society should allow for the context of the social-cultural changes taking place in the globalizing world. The most characteristic feature of the times that came after the period of modernity is the rapid development of civilization. Civilization can be understood as an organized and highly pluralized form of life of a social community and as a peak or a twilight of a social-cultural development. The core of globalization, as a process of radical and permanent changes, is the cultural diversity of contemporary societies, which determines the axionormative chaos and emptiness, large character, disorientation, changeability, identity crisis, pluralism, and relativism of outlooks. According to Kwieciński (2002), “These problems mock borders.” On the individual level, it means losing axionormative points of reference, the lack of roots, individualistic alienation, and the necessity to exist in an ambiguous and internally contradictory reality, which is not a monolith. (Cybal-Michalska 2006).
