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Natura alpinizmu. Wspinaczka jako bricolage

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Pacukiewicz M.
Prace Kulturoznawcze
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2012
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vol. 14
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issue 2
179-192
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In the Western European tradition, mountains are seen as nature’s strongest fortress. For a long time they were transformed into a rhetorical figure by aesthetic conventions and scientific discourse. It is only the modern mountain climbing that has recognised the autonomy of mountains and established a vertical climbing route as the basis of experiencing them. The ontological experience of a climbing route is a kind of mediation: every step a climber takes oscillates between culture and nature, their components intertwining with each other to form a cohesive whole. Thus, climbing becomes a sort of a logical tool for climbers to classify the world not only in the mountains, but also in a broader context, with their personality model based on the model and style of the climbing route.
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Dziennik w ścisłym znaczeniu tego wyrazu. Szczęśliwa porażka Bronisława Malinowskiego

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Pacukiewicz M.
ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura
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2004
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issue 9
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Marek Pacukiewicz A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. Bronislaw Malinowski's Fortunate Defeat Inspired by two images of Bronislaw Malinowski made by Witkacy and the idea of repetition which they inevita­bly evoke, the author points to the essential duality characterising Malinowski' s Diary. The duality in question is the one between the sublime metaphysics of the mind/spirit and the dogging corporeality of the body. This parti­cular opposition is also reflected in Malinowski's language which remains unintentionally transgressive, always on the verge of succumbing to its internal centrifugal force questioning its internal metaphysical element in favour of the discourse of emptiness and melancholy. Thus, following Joseph Conrad, Malinowski's Diary inscribes itself into the context of 19th "crisis of metaphysics" which eventually opens up a path to ontological identity located between repetition and mask and susceptible to the dynamics of ontological mobility.
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Marek Pacukiewicz A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. Bronislaw Malinowski's Fortunate Defeat Inspired by two images of Bronislaw Malinowski made by Witkacy and the idea of repetition which they inevita­bly evoke, the author points to the essential duality characterising Malinowski' s Diary. The duality in question is the one between the sublime metaphysics of the mind/spirit and the dogging corporeality of the body. This parti­cular opposition is also reflected in Malinowski's language which remains unintentionally transgressive, always on the verge of succumbing to its internal centrifugal force questioning its internal metaphysical element in favour of the discourse of emptiness and melancholy. Thus, following Joseph Conrad, Malinowski's Diary inscribes itself into the context of 19th "crisis of metaphysics" which eventually opens up a path to ontological identity located between repetition and mask and susceptible to the dynamics of ontological mobility.
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CONRAD AND MALINOWSKI: THE PREDICAMENT OF CULTURE AND THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL DISCOURSE

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Pacukiewicz M.
Yearbook of Conrad Studies
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2007
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vol. 3
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CONRAD AND MALINOWSKI: THE PREDICAMENTOF CULTURE AND THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL DISCOURSE
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“Over the Edge”: Liminal aspects of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

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Pacukiewicz M.
Yearbook of Conrad Studies
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2014
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vol. 9
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Heart of Darkness is often seen as a parable on the subject of human nature or as a critique of modern Western civilization and its colonial crimes. The novella was obviously planned not as a story ‘about’ Africa, but above all as a story that makes the reader – like Marlow – confront the experience of an unknown cultural context. As such, it is an exemplary tale about the meeting of cultures and the experience of cultural otherness, which cannot be reduced to a mere epistemological pattern. This article is an attempt to apply the concept of the ritual of passing and Victor Turner’s theory of liminality to a reading of Conrad’s novella.
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Cultural aspects of Joseph Conrad´s autobiography. On the digressive structure of Some Reminiscences

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Pacukiewicz M.
Yearbook of Conrad Studies
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2012
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vol. 7
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In this essay I attempt to analyse Joseph Conrad’s ‘autobiography’ - as it is presented in Some Reminiscences - with particular reference to the enduring cultural patterns that it exhibits. According to the configurationist or “culture and personality” approach elaborated by American anthropologists such as Ruth Benedict and Ralph Linton, patterns of behaviour transmitted within particular cultural groups permanently configure the personality model of its members both at the level of everyday behaviour and at the level of ideal patterns. This is confi rmed by an analysis of Conrad’s autobiography, in which the writer draws on the ideal patterns of the culture of the Polish eastern borderlands (which he acquired during the process of socialization) - not only in order to analyse his own personality, but also to govern his behaviour in completely different cultural contexts. Even more interestingly, these behavioural patterns have confi gured the particular model of the world that is reflected in the very structure of Conrad’s works. In this connection the influence of the gawęda or ‘Polish nobleman’s tale’ would seem to be indisputable. It is not so much that Conrad alludes to this literary convention in his autobiographical reminiscences, but rather that he uses it to re-create the model (based on cultural patterns) of the imagination of a Polish nobleman from the eastern borderlands. Moreover, this culturally determined writing strategy is used in Conrad’s other works.
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An unwritten Tristes Tropiques: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Joseph Conrad

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Pacukiewicz M.
Yearbook of Conrad Studies
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2011
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vol. 6
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issue 1
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In an interview with Didier Eribon, Claude Lévi-Strauss admitted that he wished he had written Joseph Conrad’s books. It seems that once he even started writing a “Conradian” novel entitled Tristes Tropiques, but the only known fragment of this novel would seem to be the description of a sunset, which has become part of another book of the same title containing reminiscences from his journeys. In what way, then, did Conrad infl uence this unusual book by Lévi-Strauss? There are certainly similarities between the works of both writers. Apart from a similarity of literary form and cultural substance, we can fi nd a unique “optical experience” (Dariusz Czaja) in their descriptions of sunsets, which I interpret as a substructure of their studies of the world, culture and human knowledge.
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Review of “Lord Jim” Conrada. Interpretacje (Conrad’s ‘Lord Jim’. Interpretations) by Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech

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Pacukiewicz M.
Yearbook of Conrad Studies
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2011
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vol. 6
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issue 1
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Review of „Lord Jim” Conrada. Interpretacje (Conrad’s ‘Lord Jim’. Interpretations) by Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech, Kraków: Universitas, 2007, pp. 221
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Niemoc i wszechmoc narcyzmu. Kilka refleksji na temat anaklastyki

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Pacukiewicz M.
Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
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2020
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vol. 108
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issue 1
70-81
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In modern humanities Narcissus, or a narcissist, has become an all-encompassing term that is to warn us against the idle knowledge of oneself and isolation of the individual. Derived from psychology, sociology and poststructuralism, this diagnosis has provided the basis for a common criticism of the Similar and repetition of the Same, while paradoxically favouring the articulation of the source of endless chains of mimetic reflections and behavioural patterns: the original and unique Narcissus elevated to the status of an individual perfectly abstracted from the cultural context. Doesn’t therefore the myth of Narcissus warn against itself? Isn’t the self-reflective antinarcissism of modern humanities becoming what it seeks to criticise? This discourse may undermine the importance of deep mechanisms of culture whose message and preservation rely primarily on repetition and regularity. The article offers an overview of selected proposals that criticise various types of cultural narcissism. It outlines the structure of this phenomenon, taking into account the research proposals of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Analysing narcissism as a modern form of mediation between the subject and the world, the authors try to determine what tools a contemporary narcissist uses to see his or her reflection, what dangerous ontological boundaries are crossed in the process, and consequently, which reflection eventually becomes a reality that he or she presents to others. While the ‘culture of narcissism’ – in psychosocial terms – places the individual at the centre, cultural narcissism seems to consider a community as a reservoir of codes and therefore the primary content.
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