The article is a critical insight into Ryszard Nycz’s theoretical and antropological project included in his book, Culture as a Verb. Sounding out New Humanities. The fundamental argument is based on the archeology of Nyczean concepts, and their philosophical and socio-political implications. The analytical process focuses on three points. Firstly, the issue is the non-reducing meaning of the cultural experiment, which is the foundation of the “new” epistemology. Secondly, the question is the new idea of temporality, historicity, and relations between nature and culture. Thirdly, the focus is on the concept of praxis.
Recenzja książki M. Jaya, „Pieśni doświadczenia”. Nowoczesne amerykańskie i europejskie wariacje na uniwersalny temat, przeł. A. Rejniak-Majewska, Kraków 2008.
THE POWER OF REFLECTIONThe article constitutes a part of a larger project devoted to a new assessment of the epistemological and institutional aspect of the sciences of man. In the first part, the author takes up the issue of criticism of a certain version of the concept of crisis (a kind of preliminary assessment, carried out from the position of psychoanalytical criticism of culture). In the second part, the author puts forward a hypothesis concerning the necessity to defend the speculative potential (tradition and the future) and subjects to a critical evaluation the existential and hermeneutic interpretation of “self-understanding” as a principle of the functioning of the humanities. In the third part, the author takes up the issue of the emancipating potential of humanities, juxtaposing the “work of reflection” with the language of axiology and instrumental reason.
This text tried to demonstrate the Critical Theory in the other than the sociological and political context. The author attempted to perceive in the philosophical conceptions of Adorno the elements of the theory of lecture and interpretation. There are some crucial notions and metaphors in the theoretical discourse of Adorno on which is obligated to focused: the text as a snare, the problem of invention, the question of style and idiom, the commentary in the prospect of the institution and epistemological theory. However, the main problem in this article is: how construct the critical discourse in the face of the primordial situation of commentator which is the impossibility of real express.
La conoscenza malinconica, personificata da figure come Walter Benjamin o Theodor W. Adorno, è un’estensione di questa tensione primaria nella strumentalizzazione della gioia come affetto autarchico (da un lato) e utopia nominalista e feticismo dell’immediatezza (dall’altro). Nell’articolo, alla “conoscenza malinconica” si accompagnano altri due tipi di gioia: l’etica del cuore di Kant, e la “conoscenza gioiosa” di Nietzsche, entrambe apparentemente fenomenologiche, raggiungono il confine della gioia come condizione di possibilità o impossibilità della vita e della conoscenza. In questo modo si può comprendere la tensione che radicalizza davvero la gioiosa modernità: tra Saturno ed Eros, tra critica epistemologica e fiaba.
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The text attempts to show joy in the modern dialectic of knowledge and reification. Both components of this dialectic lead deeper into current problems with the legitimization of science. Melancholic knowledge, personified by such figures as Walter Benjamin or Theodor W. Adorno, is an extension of this primary tension in the instrumentalization of joy as an autarkic affect on the one hand, and a nominalist utopia and fetishism of immediacy on the other. In the article, “melancholic knowledge” is accompanied by two other types of joy: Kant’s ethics of the heart and Nietzsche’s “joyful knowledge”, both seemingly phenomenological, reaching the edge of joy as a condition of possibility or impossibility of life and knowledge. In this way, one can understand the tension that truly radicalizes joyful modernity – stretched between Saturn and Eros, between cognitive theory criticism and fairy tale.
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Tekst jest próbą pokazania radości w nowoczesnej dialektyce wiedzy i urzeczowienia. Obie składowe tej dialektyki prowadzą w głąb teraźniejszych problemów z legitymizacją nauki. Wiedza melancholijna, uosabiana przez takie postaci jak Walter Benjamin czy Theodor W. Adorno stanowi rozwinięcie tego prymarnego napięcia w instrumentalizacji radości jako autarkicznego afektu (z jednej strony) oraz nominalistycznej utopii oraz fetyszyzmu bezpośredniości (z drugiej). W artykule „wiedzy melancholijnej” towarzyszą dwa inne rodzaje radości: Kantowska etyka serca, oraz Nietzscheańska „wiedza radosna”, obie pozornie fenomenologiczne docierają na skraj radości jako warunku możliwości lub niemożliwości życia i poznania. W ten sposób można zrozumieć napięcie, które prawdziwie radykalizuje nowoczesność radosną – rozpiętą między Saturnem i Erosem, między teoriopoznawczą krytyką a baśnią.
The article is an attempt to rethink the relationship between chance and necessity in the work of Stanisław Lem. The author of the article uses both the expository and literary philosophy of the writer himself as well as Lacanian psychoanalysis (especially the topological view of the unconsciousness of desire) and Michel Foucault’s archeology of knowledge (especially the problem of the limits of representation and analogy as an alternative to dialectics). The two main theses of the article are: 1. classical philosophy (Kant, Hegel) provides Lem with such fundamental categories as critical imagination or abolition of genesis, and is treated as parallel (not secondary or supplementary) to biotechnological theory; 2. the writer approaches the problem of Other-ness from the anti-dualist perspective.
O książce Anny Burzyńskiej "Anty-teoria literatury" rozmawiają dr hab. Anna Burzyńska, prof. Anna Łebkowska, prof. Teresa Walas, prof. Henryk Markiewicz, prof. Ryszard Nycz, dr Tomasz Kunz i mgr Jakub Momro
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