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Zapach upiora – Ale z naszymi umarłymi Jacka Dehnela

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Romaniszyn-Ziomek L.

Świat i Słowo

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2020

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vol. 35(2)

127-135

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The article attempts to interpret Jacek Dehnel’s book But Together With Our Dead, which invokes the spiritual ideas of the Polish Romanticism. It is based on the figure of the zombie – the living dead, the revenant who is the carrier of various references and contexts. The figure also allows us to read Dehnel’s novel not only in the context of a grotesque aimed at Romanticism, but also in the context of the current socio-political situation, immutably founded on the spirit of national megalomania, rising from crypts and burial mounds.

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The Fading Revolutionary Capacity of the Zombi. The Transformation of Zombis’ Symbolism in Haitian Literature as Exemplified by the Novels of Dany Laferrière and Yanick Lahens

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Poręba I.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

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2023

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issue 19

271-282

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Zombis, unlike the zombies prevalent in American pop culture, function in Haitian culture as complex symbols with historically variable meanings – initially depicting the process of enslavement during the transatlantic slave trade, they increasingly became symbols of Haitian revolutions and resistance. This dialectical doubling of the meaning of zombis can still be found in Dany Laferrière’s novel Pays sans chapeau, published in 1996. The article reconstructs the origin of zombis, presents a discussion on the meaning of this figure, including dialectical views, and discusses their fictional depictions. The aim of the article is to investigate whether zombis still have a twofold symbolism in narrative, as symbols of both enslavement and revolutionary resistance. By considering the vestigial reminiscences of zombis in Yanick Lahens’ novel Douces déroutes, attention is drawn to the processes of gradual loss of zombis’ ambivalence and their importance as means of creating Haitian identity and everyday experience. According to the study’s conclusions, their absence (or their residual forms) in the novel of the second decade of the 21st century is as significant and interesting as their vitality and omnipresence in the works of writers of previous generations.

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DAVIDA CHALMERSA ARGUMENT Z LOGICZNEJ MOŻLIWOŚCI ISTNIENIA ZOMBI

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Jarocki J.

Roczniki Filozoficzne

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2013

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vol. 61

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issue 1

23-42

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This paper presents a reconstruction of the argument for the logical possibility of zombies, proposed by David Chalmers, which has been debated in analytical philosophy for at least fifteen years now. Beside discussing it, I’m trying to analyze every of its premises. My aim is, especially, to present how the reasoning can show that: (a) zombies/zombie worlds are genuinely conceivable; (b) conceivability is a good guide to possibility; (c) the possibility of zombies is philosophically significant. I’m particularly putting emphasis on some issues concerning two-dimensional semantics and distinctions of conceivability. The conclusion of this paper is that the argument is still not refuted, so a discussion over it should be conducted, instead of a priori refutation. The debate over zombies may have a positive influence on many fields of philosophical investigation.

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W niniejszym artykule omawiam wysunięty przez Davida Chalmersa argument z logicznej możliwości istnienia zombi, który w filozofii anglosaskiej dyskutowany jest już od ponad piętnastu lat. Oprócz jego prezentacji staram się również przeanalizować każdą z jego przesłanek. W szczególności moim celem jest zaprezentowanie w jaki sposób rozumowanie na rzecz logicznej możliwości istnienia zombi udowadnia, iż: (a) zombi, względnie świat zombi, są rzeczywiście pojmowalne; (b) pojmowalność ta prowadzi do możliwości; (c) możliwość zombi ma jakiekolwiek znaczenie filozoficzne. W ostatniej części artykułu prezentuję najczęstsze formy krytyki argumentu, nie rozstrzygam jednak o ich słuszności. Wnioskiem artykułu jest stwierdzenie, że argument z logicznej możliwości istnienia zombi wciąż uważany jest za nieobalony, co powinno skłonić do dyskusji nad nim, nie zaś jego apriorycznego odrzucenia. Co więcej, debata nad tym zagadnieniem może mieć pozytywny wpływ na wiele dziedzin filozofii.

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Zapach upiora – Ale z naszymi umarłymi Jacka Dehnela

The Fading Revolutionary Capacity of the Zombi. The Transformation of Zombis’ Symbolism in Haitian Literature as Exemplified by the Novels of Dany Laferrière and Yanick Lahens

DAVIDA CHALMERSA ARGUMENT Z LOGICZNEJ MOŻLIWOŚCI ISTNIENIA ZOMBI