The following analysis of Katarzyna Czechot’s book Ofelizm. Romantyczne zawłaszczenia, feministyczne interwencje [Ophelism. Romantic appropriations, feminist interventions], published in 2016, is a chronological record of ophelic images proposed by this gender studies researcher. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate Czeczot’s dialogue with the traditional representations of Shakespeare’s tragic female figure. In the review the author pays attention to the subversive potential of the subsequent chapters of the work. The portrayals of a female, and sometimes feminized, body, which are linked together by an “ophelic code”, are often interpreted as a certain kind of medium of social revolutions, of changes in human expectations and desires.
The article is a critical reading of Jacques Derrida’s Spectres of Marx. Apart from presenting the Eagleton's and Negri’s critical interpretations and philosophical unproductiveness of Derrida's proposals, I also try to show their inability to fulfill the ethical and political promises, which they makes.
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Artykuł jest krytyczna interpretacją Widm Marksa Jacquesa Derridy. Obok przedstawienia krytycznych odczytań Eagletona czy Negriego, próbuję pokazać nie tylko filozoficzną jałowość propozycji Derridy, ale także niezdolność do wywiązania się z politycznych i etycznych obietnic, które składa.
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