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Naród – ten dziwny twór, który nie chce zniknąć z dyskursu humanistyki

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SKÓRCZEWSKI D.

Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL

2013

vol. 26

issue 1 (101)

East Central Europe has for long been dismissed in various ways by Western politicians and scholars, both of which groups continue to perceive it through Hans Kohn’s misleading yet prevalent dichotomy between two types of nationalism: a «good» Western and a «bad» Eastern nationalism. Discursive practices resulting from Kohn’s reductionist and fundamentally wrong approach,examples of which are briefl y discussed in the paper, are considered indicators of Saidean «orientalism» that “failed to identify with human experience” and are held responsible for the duplication of a paternalistic descriptive style predominant in contemporary Western discourses on East Central Europe. Postcolonial theory as developed by Said provides an illuminating explanatory context for the complex phenomena resulting from the current hegemony of the «West» over ECE, such as inferiority complex, subaltern status, incapacitation, and the powerful feeling of dissociation from the community of sovereign political and cultural entities. Drawing upon postcolonial conceptual framework, the paper offers a different perspective on the question of nationalism, one that does «accept» the concept of nation. Through the analysis of Frantz Fanon’s and Leszek Kołakowski’s two seminal essays, nation is viewed as a positive factorin the process of recovery of the collective subjectivity of postcolonial society, and by no means as an anachronism in the contemporary world that is supposedly «postnational.» The paper concludes with a proposal that the East Central European historical experience, alongside the emerging postcolonial studies in East Central Europe, be deemed an impulse for a reconsideration of the «antinationalist» attitudes of modern humanities, thus aiding the dominant Western discourses in disposing of their pernicious orientalist clichés and stereotypes of ECE.

Dyskutować z artystą, czyli humanistyka w ruinie. Esej nie tylko pro domo sua

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SKÓRCZEWSKI D.

Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL

2015

vol. 28

issue 1 (109)

The essay reflects on the present condition of the humanities in Poland and the prospects of the humanities’ survival in the contexts of: the commercial and corporative approach of Polish government to university, the crisis of science and research funding, the demographic crisis in Poland, and the severe devaluation of university in the present-day liberal model of education which severs the relationship between the university and the national life. Reflecting upon the management of Polish humanities on both governmental and university levels, the author points to some mental effects of postcolonial inferiority complex and some traps of nominalist thinking manifested in a magical belief in the reparatory upshots of the standardization of the teaching process.

Esej dotyczy obecnej kondycji nauk humanistycznych w Polsce i perspektywy ich przetrwania w obliczu komercyjno-korporacyjnego podejścia rządu do uniwersytetu, kryzysu nakładów na naukę, kryzysu demograficznego i pogłębiającej się dewaluacji uniwersytetu w obowiązującym dziś, liberalnym modelu kształcenia, zrywającym związek między uniwersytetem a życiem i tożsamością narodu. W sytuacji, jaka panuje w zarządzaniu polską humanistyką na poziomie ministerialnym, jak również uczelnianym, autor dostrzega mentalne skutki postkolonialnego kompleksu niższości oraz pułapki myślenia nominalistycznego, przejawiającego się magiczną wiarą w naprawcze efekty standaryzacji procesu kształcenia.

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Naród – ten dziwny twór, który nie chce zniknąć z dyskursu humanistyki

Dyskutować z artystą, czyli humanistyka w ruinie. Esej nie tylko pro domo sua