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O władzy ludzi nad zwierzętami w kulturze zachodniej – perspektywa posthumanistyczna

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Gajewska G.

Studia Europaea Gnesnensia

2015

issue 11

213-235

In this paper, I discuss the problem of human ascendance over animals. The issue is particularly important and often addressed in contemporary intellectual current referred to as posthumanism. In this framework, the interest in humanity is not abandoned, but one departs from the anthropocentric approach. The prefix “post” denotes a shift of focus, from problems and intellectual positions which underline the privileged status of the human to non-anthropocentric attitudes. These are non-anthropocentric humanities, although the designation itself is paradoxical, and undermines the legitimacy of the humanities in general, since anthropos is the principal subject of research of the discipline and the humanistic approach. For those reasons, “non-anthropocentric humanities” and other ones as well, such as “non-humanist anthropology”, “anthropology of objects”, “anthropology of cyborgs” or finally “posthumanities” provoke reservations. Still, this is a problem which always appears when appropriate words are lacking to describe a set of new tendencies, directions of research or intellectual approaches which have not yet developed a suitable terminology. The prefix “post” suggests that new phenomena cannot be rendered by means of the former notions and categories; new methods which make it possible have to be sought. In the case of notions such as “non-anthropocentric humanities” and “posthumanities”, the important thing is that they forecast as change of the dominant in the tendencies, directions and methods of (post)humanistic studies. They do not draw upon humanism as a specific approach to the world in whose centre one finds the human being, but to the non-essentialist and non-hierarchically oriented posthumanism.

Optyka obcości. Ludzkie wiersze o zwierzętach

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Szulc-Woźniak A.

Polonistyka. Innowacje

2017

issue 5

41-52

The article questions the post-anthropocentric ability of Joanna Pollakówna’s poems. Poet, Ph.D holder in history of art, rooted in the European culture and Christian thought (St. Augustine, St. John of the Cross, Pascal), seems to be close to the traditional values of humanism (humanisms). She takes up themes of pain and suffering, adds religious and philosophical meanings along with anthropocentric perspective inscribed so deeply into them that it is sometimes barely visible. At one time, in her work, she is looking for relationship and intimacy with non-human beings – at other times recognizing the equality of all beings towards the biological life (zoe). In the following text I present the selected Pollakówna’s poems representing her writing and containing reflections about animals. In this way, I try to outline the poet’s two directions of considerations of non-human beings – striving towards relationships and the delight of their impossible to tame nature.

Artykuł stawia pytanie o możliwość postantropocentrycznej lektury wierszy Joanny Pollakówny. Poetka, doktor historii sztuki, zakorzeniona w kulturze europejskiej i myśli chrześcijańskiej (św. Augustyn, św. Jan od Krzyża, Pascal), wydaje się bliska tradycyjnym wartościom humanizmu (humanizmów). Podejmując tematy bólu i cierpienia, przymierza do nich sensy religijne i filozoficzne, wraz z wpisaną w nie, tak głęboko, że niekiedy trudną do dostrzeżenia, perspektywą antropocentryczną. Równocześnie, w swojej twórczości, poszukuje relacji i bliskości z istotami nie-ludzkimi – dostrzegając równość wszystkich bytów wobec kolei biologicznego życia (zoe). W tekście przedstawiam wybrane wiersze Pollakówny, reprezentatywne dla jej pisarstwa i zawartych w nim refleksji o zwierzętach. Zarysowuję w ten sposób dwa kierunki rozważań poetki o istotach nie-ludzkich – dążenie ku relacji i zachwyt ich niemożliwą do oswojenia naturą.

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O władzy ludzi nad zwierzętami w kulturze zachodniej – perspektywa posthumanistyczna

Optyka obcości. Ludzkie wiersze o zwierzętach