Er(r)rgo...

• Authors: Wojciech Kalaga
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Er(r)go, what is the other side of discourse? Is it the evident awaiting to be discovered, or is it a double non-evidentness of the metaphorical and the enthymematic? The world as a stable, though always distant target of cognition, or the world as a hypothetical project of an uncertain an nomadic thought? History as macro-narration or as a conglomerate of mini-stories, epistemology or rhetoric, the obvious or the relative truth? (The paper by Andrzej Dziamski already anticipates the theme of the third issue of "Er(r)go"). Panrationalism or adogmatism? The contemporary methodological debates, the divisions into traditionalists and postmodernists, the doubting and the certain, the metaphorists and the scientificalists, the constructivists and the essentialists, are contained in the attitude to the evident. For some, the evident is evident, even though one has to persevere in order to know; for others. the evident is not-evident, although it imposes itself on knowledge. But here also the desacralization of the foundations of cognition becomes a pagan sacrum, forcing us eventually into a series of dualisms. A grand narrative about the annihilation of grand narratives. Anti-anti-anti-... -realism. With tender suspicion, we embrace our own discourse and the discourse of the other. With magnanimous violence we mark out the limits of the parentheses of the non-evident. We seek to explore the unstable and opalescent space between le dit and le dire. We continue our effort as translators of dualisms into pluralism, and not infrequently do we return to the point of departure, now paradoxical. Yet each duality contains/opens a fissure, only apparently void. Seemingly condemned to dualisms, we sometimes forget to let the Third speak. Wojciech Kalaga  

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach / Śląsk Sp. z o.o. Wydawnictwo Naukowe
• Journal: ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura
• Year: 2001
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2001-01-01

Contributors

author

Wojciech Kalaga