Ku archeontologii martwego ciała (kontemplacyjne podejście do przeszłości)

• Authors: Ewa Domańska

Title variants

EN

Towards an Archeontology of the Dead body (A Contemplative Approach to the Past)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Ewa Domańska Towards an Archeontology of the Dead body (A Contemplative Approach to the Past) Ewa Domaiiska distinguishes a distinct contemplative approach to the past which - unlike doc­umentary, commemorative or 'oral evidence' approaches - undertakes, among other things, reflec­tion on various aspects of the dead body's existence and functioning. She traces the facets of 'end-ism' in historical reflection, which is increasingly skeptical of the prospects of historiography characterised by anthropocentrism, ethnocentrism, eurocentrism and phallocentrism. Thus many scholars think that present-day historiography should first of all study historians - their motivations, sponsors and backgrounds. Those who want the Third Millennium to be a new beginning for histo­riography postulate that scholars should give more thought to death, the deceased and their corpses. Domaflska's claim is that in future-oriented human sciences questions concerning the past cannot be answered until we refer to ontology, to those thinkers who - like Martin Heidegger - study exist­ence, death and the issue of being.

EN

Ewa Domańska Towards an Archeontology of the Dead body (A Contemplative Approach to the Past) Ewa Domaiiska distinguishes a distinct contemplative approach to the past which - unlike doc­umentary, commemorative or 'oral evidence' approaches - undertakes, among other things, reflec­tion on various aspects of the dead body's existence and functioning. She traces the facets of 'end-ism' in historical reflection, which is increasingly skeptical of the prospects of historiography characterised by anthropocentrism, ethnocentrism, eurocentrism and phallocentrism. Thus many scholars think that present-day historiography should first of all study historians - their motivations, sponsors and backgrounds. Those who want the Third Millennium to be a new beginning for histo­riography postulate that scholars should give more thought to death, the deceased and their corpses. Domaflska's claim is that in future-oriented human sciences questions concerning the past cannot be answered until we refer to ontology, to those thinkers who - like Martin Heidegger - study exist­ence, death and the issue of being.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach / Śląsk Sp. z o.o. Wydawnictwo Naukowe
• Journal: ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura
• Year: 2001
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2001-10-01

Contributors

author

Ewa Domańska