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Michael Haneke nie po raz pierwszy stawia przed swoimi widzami wyzwanie. Jak rozumieć to, co film przedstawia i ukazuje? Jak rozumieć to, co film „opowiada”? Autor eseju stara się wskazać na performatywny charakter filmu i wagę cielesności w przedstawieniu, „opowiedzeniu” tej historii. Twierdzi, że działania (wykonanie) są w tym filmie ważniejsze niż słowa i że to dlatego ten film może tak mocno oddziaływać na widza. „Performatywność” filmu wymusza na widzu inny rodzaj refleksji, zdecydowanie przekraczający łatwe do jednoznacznego zwerbalizowania znaczenia. Reżyser stawia też bardzo mocno kwestię samostanowienia człowieka, możliwości decydowania o własnym losie nawet wówczas, gdy ów los trudno wziąć już we „własne ręce”. Przedstawia sytuację, „miejsce”, gdzie jednostka najczęściej „przegrywa” ze zorganizowaną racją „społeczeństwa” opowiadającego się zażyciem. Autor artykułu podnosi też kwestię adekwatności tytułu filmu. Dochodzi do wniosku, że zdanie Gabriela Marcela, który twierdzi, że kochać to znaczy mówić drugiej osobie: ty nigdy nie umrzesz, paradoksalnie jest bardzo adekwatne w odniesieniu do tego filmu.
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It is not the first time that Michael Haneke challenges his audience. How are we to understand what the film shows and reveals? What is the meaning of the film’s story? The author of the article tries to pin point the performative nature of the film and the importance of corporeality in the presentation and telling of this story. He claims that the action (performance) is more important than words in the film, which is why this film can have a very strong impact on the viewer. The “performativity” of the film forces onto the viewer a different kind of reflection, one far exceeding easy expressed meaning. The director puts forward very strongly the issue of self determination, the possibility of deciding one’s own fate, even when it is no longer an easy matter to take that fate into one’s own hands. He presents a situation, a “place” where the individual loses out to the organised raison of “society”, which supports “life”. The article also raises the question of the adequacy of the film title. The author comes to the conclusion that Gabriel Marcel’s opinion that to love means to tell the other person: “you are never going to die”, paradoxically, is highly adequate in relation to this film.
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According to Jan Patočka, phenomenology considers the human body as phenomenon. In Body, Community, Language and World Patočka concentrates on the body as a living and subjective entity, which represents the condition of our existence in the world, i.e. also the condition of apparition. As a consequence, the body itself is the condition of its own appearance. If this conclusion is not absurd, than in what sense? In the two cases, are we dealing with the same body or do we necessarily speak about two different entities? How are these entities characterized and how do they eventually differ? And if we speak about the same body, how is this body to be taken into account? May the phenomenological method be applied on an entity which seems to condition the existence of phenomena? Is it not rather a blind spot from which the phenomena arise and in which they disappear? And last but not least, what are the consequences of Patočka’s conception of corporeality in the realm on interpersonal relationships and what possibilities of understanding oneself as well as the other do they open?
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Na podstawie dwóch opowiadań – Kąpiel we Wszscińsku Siegfrieda Lenza i Szwabska kąpiel Herty Müller – została podjęta próba określenia więzi rodzinnych w kontekście krwi i wody. Więzy wody, które stają się widoczne podczas wspólnej kąpieli, odzwierciedlają więzy krwi, inicjowane aktem płciowym. W wymiarze duchowym oba rodzaje więzów wykazują zindywidualizowaną zdolność w kształtowaniu kontaktów interpersonalnych (ich stopnia bliskości i oddalenia), ale w wymiarze fizycznym poddane są one ścisłej weryfikacji kulturowej i cechuje je inwersja: o ile relacja wody eksponuje przynależność genealogiczną członków rodziny (integruje swoich i separuje obcych), o tyle relacja krwi zapobiega sytuacjom kazirodczym (łączy obcych i dzieli swoich).
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This paper, based on ethnographically obtained data, discusses German language acquisition at an early age: the discovery of the interconnection between language and corporeality is the key component of the analysis based on videostudies. The body-conceived as an intermediary and content element of education, becomes an essential base for foreign language acquisition. This will be documented by tangible data and subsequent theoretical analysis with respect to relevant terminology of cultural anthropology (Körper and Leib). The principle of corporeality is further used as a means of perceiving German language education in the sense of the so called language propaedeutic concept and as a means of the legitimisation of particular qualification and the role of foreign language teachers in preschool institutions.
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The article undertakes to interpret the collection of short stories titled Historie maniaków by Roman Jaworski using the category of ugliness. So far, this work has been analysed through a different aesthetic category, namely the grotesque, while the author himself drew attention in the discussed collection of short stories to ugliness and recommended that it should be chosen as the principle perspective. The analysis focuses on the impact of the ugliness category on the shaping of elements of the world presented in the work: the creation of the characters and their corporeality, settings, as well as the very composition of the collection and the construction of the language used by the author. The paper finishes with an attempt to interpret Historie maniaków using contemporary humanistic theories, which consider the category of ugliness as a positive value.
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This article focuses on the special status of women’s autobiographical reportages in whichthe creator-participant creates her own autobiographical space in relation to the already establishedplaces of memory, which are internalized and presented as her own. On the example of wartimereportages Kruchy lód. Dziennikarze na wojnie [Thin Ice. Journalists in Wartime] by Anna Wojtachaand Inny front [Different Front] by Miłada Jędrysik, I would like to present what the choiceof autobiographical places can tell us about the subject, what is exposed by the structure of the storyand how the category of corporeality influences the understanding of this genre.
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The article presents a research of the usage of colours in Estonian fairy tales and the associations that are created by means of colours. The topic of colour usage also includes the aspect of corporeality that generates a critical discussion on the presentation of a woman in fairy tales. The symbolical meanings of different colours in fairy tales largely overlap with their meanings in folk belief and runo songs. The colours that are particularly meaningful are black, white, and red. Also, such colours as grey and gold occupy special places in fairy tales. In addition to physical description, colours are used to present characters’ or objects’ inner values, also expressing the way they differ from the ordinary, or hinting at the magical qualities they may possess. Black and white form a pair of opposites, symbolising good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death. Those meanings remain with them also in case one is being used without the other. The colour red represents health, fertility, and beauty; that is why it is frequently used in the descriptions of women. At the same time, the colour red can be used as an opposite to white, having in this case a negative meaning. Gold and other metals show the object’s magical characteristics, but at the same time also its value. Possessing a golden object can also hint at the owner’s high moral values. The colour grey represents wisdom but it can also be seen as a colour that disguises magical as ordinary.
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This article aims to problematize the issue of corporeality in Joanna Bator’s novel Chmurdalia, whitch was written in 2010. The aim of the sketch is to discuss and conceptualize the approaches to corporeality presented in the novel and to take into account such an approach to the human body that would take into account its specific subjective character. It is also advisable to verify the theses about the fundamental role of corporeality in Bator’s novel and about the subjectivity of the body. The last point is directly related to the – extremely important for my deliberations – elements of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept. His theory seems to be especially valuable in the face of the phenomenon of “looking at the body”” that is taking place today. According to the philosopher, the uniqueness of corporeality manifests itself in the fact that the body is not limited only to what is seen, but is also what it watches. The text includes a reflection on the present Chmurdalia shots of corporeality related to the corporeality of the main character, Dominika Chmura, as well as the body of Dominika’s friend, Sara Jackson, and the hairdresser Tadeusz Kruk’s theme.
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The author concentrates on the relation between person and body in phenomenology and analytical philosophy. Both of these traditions are, in their own way, critical towards the cartesian dualism. While phenomenology tries to overcome this dualism through the description of the experience of our corporeality from the first person point of view, analytic philosophy examines the metaphysical problem of the relation person and body from the third person perspective a usually proposes a materialist answer in the sense of an identity of person and body. The central part of the paper is a detailed analysis of Kripke’s challenge of contemporary materialism. The author argues that it is possible to accept Kripke’s modal and temporal arguments in favour of the dualism of person and body without being forced to accept the idea of dualism itself. It is the metaphysics of constitution that represents an alternative: the person is constituted by her body, but she is not identical with it. Surprisingly, it is the idea of the living body that is rediscovered in this solution – the idea which, in a sense, is a part of the phenomenological heritage, even though it is devoid of phenomenological anti-scientism and idealism.
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The article aims to investigate Francis Bacon’s works in the broader cultural and philosophical context. Tracking down the influence of other artists on Bacon’s art and the symbols visible in his paintings leads to valid conclusions related to the problems of the artists of the twentieth century. These are: human loneliness, abandonment by the Creator, reduction of human being to mere bodies and the question of the existence and location of an immortal soul.
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Odstępstwa od zachowań uchodzących za normatywne tworzą obraz człowieka, którego aktywność sprowadza się do nieregularności. Takich nieregularności w zachowaniu Stefana Napierskiego (właśc. Marek Eiger) znający go pisarze we wspomnieniach odnotowują wiele. W scenariuszu niechęci zapisują argumenty irracjonalne, ciążące ku temu, co somatyczne, cielesne. To właśnie cielesność jako społeczny konstrukt kształtujący twórczą wyobraźnię Napierskiego jest przedmiotem analizy w niniejszym artykule. Autorka przywołuje kategorię wstrętu nie tylko jako afektu, odrzucenia tego, co odrażające, ale także jako mechanizmu obronnego realizowanego za pomocą społecznych wyobrażeń. Analizuje m.in. motywy powracające w twórczości Napierskiego (myszy, szczury, krawaty, szafa). Opisuje wstręt modelujący wyobrażenia na temat ciała, interpretuje konsekwencje takiej postawy dla Napierskiego. Pisarza, który rozpoczął grę ograniczeń polegającą na samopiętnowaniu, który przejął społeczne wyobrażenia i dzięki nim modelował fantazmat cielesności zdradzającej władzę ojców – rasy semickiej.
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Deviations from normative behaviour form an image of a man whose activity is reduced to irregularities. Writers who knew him record many such irregularities in the behaviour of Stefan Napierski (b. Mark Eiger) in their memoirs. In their script of aversion, they record irrational arguments, tending towards the somatic, corporal. It is a social construct of corporeality shaping Napierski’s creative imagination that is the subject of analysis in this article. The author refers to the category of disgust not only as affect, rejecting what is disgusting, but also as a defence mechanism implemented by socialperceptions. She analyses recurring themes in Napierski’s oeuvre (mice, rats, ties, wardrobe). She describes the disgust shaping ideas about the body, interprets the consequences of such an approach for Napierski. The writer, who started the game of restrictions involving self-stigmatisation, who took over social perceptions and through them modelled the phantasm of corporality betraying the power of fathers – the Semitic race.
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The “corporeal turn” which has taken place in 20th century thought, is closely related with the discovery of corporeality as a key motive of philosophical ethics. The aim of the present paper is to present and compare two phenomenological contributions to „bodily ethics“ – the first one consists in an ethical interpretation of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, while the second one is explicitly contained in the thought of E. Levinas. The starting point of our analysis is the conception of intersubjectivity which differs radically in the thought of the two philosophers. While Merleau-Ponty stresses especially the primordial inter-corporeal resonance and empathy between myself and the other, Levinas’ view is based on the idea of an irreducible alterity of the other, which makes him to consider the relation between myself and the other as essentially asymmetrical. We attempt to show that the relation between Levinas’ and Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of intersubjectivity is far more complex than it seems and that in order to develop the moral phenomenology of corporeality in a productive way, it is necessary to overcome certain one-sidedness both in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty. This overcoming is unthinkable without taking over the most productive motives of both philosophers’ views of intersubjectivity and corporeality.
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The article propounds an interpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy, in which the issueof illness would be instrumental. However, in contrast to any kind of reductionarybiographism, the illness should be conceived as inextricably intertwined with thethinking itself. Nietzsche’s own illness was initially nothing more than a personal problem, yet it soon influenced his whole life, forcing to forgo the academic career. Thus afflicted, the philosopher used his experience to develop a new view oncorporeality, diametrically opposed to Cartesianism. In the post-Cartesian model,objective thinking and illness have nothing in common; either corporal sufferingexerts no influence upon thoughts, or the mind sinks into pure insanity. Whoever losttheir faculties is still capable to stick to rationality, if only they accept the diagnosis,however subjectively unconvincing it would seem. Suspicious of the notion of truth,Nietzsche reverses the post-Cartesian model. Objective thinking, neatly separatedfrom illness, as well as rational diagnoses appear to him as a fetish supporting thosewho cannot deal with their own corporeality. They repress their weaknesses, assuming the unfounded belief in objective thinking, which can be practised irrespective ofpersonal malaise. However, Nietzsche’s suffering, which recurred irregularly and hadno detectable grounds, couldn’t be separated not only from thinking, but from lifeas such. The philosopher was thus lead to advance a concept of “diet”, construed asbroadly as possible, including the selection of food, lectures and embraced thoughts.The diet is the uttermost refutation of diagnosis, as it treats the mind and the bodyas a unity changing in time. The illness, which accompanies life inevitably, servesas a permanent yardstick of quality of our thoughts. Moreover, it gives us the opportunity to experience pure becoming.
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Olga Tokarczuk’s novel E.E. apart from the fact that it is the story of a 15-year-old girl with mediumistic abilities and her family is also affacted by the issue of corporeality. Especially inspiring, valuable cognitively and imoprtant from a perspective of this article seem to be the corporeality presentation of two main characters – Erna Eltzner and her mother. This article containing an in-deph reflection on the issue of corporeality of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel. The aim of the work is to analyze and interpret showed by Tokarczuk images of corporeality related to psychic and personality domain of the main characters. The main thesis is the assumption that corporeality is essential for the novel about the fate of Erna Eltzner. The aim is to look and subject the interpretation of the presented by Tokarczuk depiction of corporeality, capturing its function, reflection on the cosequences of the used way of imagery as well as to analyze what is the connection between the corporeality of the main character and gaining by her identity and independence. The methodology adopted in the project is based on the elements of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s theory as well as the conception of somatopoetics by Anna Łebkowska. The essay’s author on the basis of somatopoetics theory brings us closer the functioning of the body as an interpretive category not just as a subject of literaturę, as well as using the tools created by somatopoetics examines various aspects of the manifestation of the category of corporeality in the novel.
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The article discusses the Polish translation (2018) of Goliarda Sapienza’s novel L’arte della gioia (The Art of Joy, in Polish Sztuka radości, trans. by Tomasz Kwiecień) in relation to the selected works of Inga Iwasiów and Sylwia Zientek. Anarchism, which provides the ideological background of the Italian book, serves as the basic point of reference for this interpretation. The author points to the issues from Sapienza’s novel which are important from the perspective of anarchism and which can also be found in the Polish texts mentioned in the article. The aim of this analysis is to discuss the context in which The Art of Joy functions in Poland and to suggest the possible lines of interpretation that can be drawn between this novel and contemporary Polish literature.
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The paper investigates manners of linguistic description of psychosomatic, autobiographically interpreted experience in contemporary women’s poetry, which is analyzed in the context of the poetics of the moment, with reference to Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s concept of “poetry as a mode of attention.” The authoress is particularly interested in the figure of paronomasia, evoking homonymic, parallel spheres: the material and the transcendental one. The article contains close reading interpretations of poems by, among others, Krystyna Miłobędzka, Teresa Ferenc, Bogusława Latawiec and Ludmiła Marjańska, in which paronomasia introduces the reader into a dual dimension of existence, both anchoring the subject in the physical, bodily reality and provoking metaphysical questions.
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The paper deals with two little clay legs from the collection of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. They are fragments of anthropomorphic figurines of the Linear Pottery Culture, discovered in 1962 at the site Koniecmosty 2, świętokrzyskie voivodeship. Performed was the technological, iconographic and contextual analysis of the statuettes. Raised were also issues relating to corporeality and personal identity in the Neolithic.
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The author reflects on the problem of social transformation in terms of receiving and classifying humor, as shown by the example of disappearing lyrical species called ‘trifle’. In his view, contemporary Polish poetry (and, in fact, all world literature) avoids decidedly satirical and humorous forms. Poetry is domi-nated by discreet and mixed humor, such as black humor, irony, pure-nonsense, mockery, persiflage, derision, grotesque. The analysis is based on poetry by the artists of three generations: Tadeusz Rozewicz, Bohdan Zadura and Krzysztof Jaworski.
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The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 are a symbolic source of all later views on a nuclear holocaust. The specificity of the Japanese narratives, however, lies in the fact that they take the first-person form, and thus they give a direct testimony of the individuals’ experience. In the article I refer to the personal accounts of the victims of the atomic bomb (the so-called hibakusha) to prove that corporeality is employed in them as the primary category of description, and functions as the existential ground on which both the horror of the explosion is constructed, and the collapse of the “world of life” of the community is experienced.
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Consumer society has undergone various transformations in terms of group and social behaviors. Body estheticization is undoubtedly one of the essential phenomena involved. It depends on the improvement of the bodilyfeatures in order to increase its esthetic values, i.e. transformation of the body into a work of art. Body estheticization is characterized by complex factors such as: reliance on the established patterns of beauty promoted by media. The article assumes that beauty may be perceived not only from the socio-cultural perspective but also as an evolutionary phenomenon. In the light of the course of evolution, people has developed a mechanism of sexual selection which facilitatedthe choice of the right candidate on the basis of the essential parameters including:existence, survival and reproductive success. Among other mechanisms, the external appearance, beauty, body and its predispositions have become symbols of beneficial genes, used alsoas a particular kind of information for representatives of the opposite sex. The article discusses the evolutionary foundation of beauty and beauty standards, in particular: the cult of youth, beautiful body and its predispositions, which constitute a connection between evolutionary psychology, socio-biology and body estheticization.
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