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O kryzysie klimatycznym z perspektywy nieetnocentrycznej (na przykładzie filmu anime „Nausicaä z Doliny Wiatru” Hayao Miyazakiego)

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Filipowicz A.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2022

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issue 15

95-111

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The article raises the problem of non-Eurocentric approaches to natural disasters – treating them as ordinary rather than traumatic events. For some archaic (indigenous) types of thinking, fundamental changes taking place in the environment do not cause the cessation of relations with nature and involve the need to constantly adapt to its conditions, even at the expense of one’s own welfare or living. Hayao Miyazaki’s anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind also discusses this issue. The animistic thinking about the environment (Japanese Shintoism) shown in it opens a reflection on the possibility of considering old worldviews in the reflection on the ethical future of man on the eve of the climate collapse.

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Therianthropes in a Cartesian and an Animistic Cosmology: Beyond-the-Pale Monsters versus Being-in-the World Others

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Guenther M.

Literatura Ludowa

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2022

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vol. 66

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issue 3

7-35

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The nature of human-animal hybrid beings (or therianthropes) is examined in an Animistic (traditional San Bushman) and a Cartesian (Early Modern Western) cosmology. In each ontological ambiguity is imagined and conceptualized in different terms. One of them is through monstrosity, which, in the Western schema, is equated with human-animal hybridity. This equivalence threatens the boundaries and categories that buttress western cosmology, through a being – the human-animal hybrid – deemed a conceptual and epistemological abomination. It elicits a category crisis that is as much cerebral as it is visceral as the were-beings it conceives are feared and demonized. No such valences attach to therianthropes in the cosmology described in this paper. It is an “entangled” cosmology shot through with ambiguity and fluidity in which human-animal hybridity is neither abominable nor feared. Instead, as a pervasive and salient theme of San world view and lifeways, especially its expressive and ritual spheres, along with hunting, ontological mutability becomes an integral component of people’s thoughts and lives and thereby normalized and naturalized. Beings partaking of this state are deemed another species of being with whom humans engage as other-than-humans, on shared social terms. Monsters are beings who negate or transgress the moral foundation of the social order. San monstrosity, conceptually and phenomenologically, becomes thereby a matter of deviation from social (moral) pre/proscriptions rather than from classificatory (ontological) ones. This basic conceptual difference notwithstanding, we also find a fundamental commonality: the inversion, through monsters and monstrosity, of each cosmology’s underlying epistemic matrices, of structure and ambiguity, respectively.

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Against the “Anthropocene Apathy”. About the Rescue Potential of Postsecularism (on the Example of Works by the Romany Poetess Papusza)

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Filipowicz A.

Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies

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2021

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issue 7

1-25

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Чувство безнадежности по отношению к антропоцентрической парадигме мешает думать о будущем планеты и усиливает пессимизм и смирение. Это также касается гуманитарных наук об окружающей среде, обращающих внимание на необходимость изменения сознания, которая может помочь ограничить масштабы климатической катастрофы. Сегодня изменение человеческого сознания требует поддержки в виде эффективных инструментов для изменения реальности, которые удовлетворят потребность в целом, смысле и духовности, оставаясь при этом открытыми для иных, чем западные, моделей религиозности. Эти инструменты стоит искать в особенности в постсекулярном мышлении, сочетающем рациональное и интуитивное понимание реальности.

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Poczucie beznadziei wobec antropocentrycznego paradygmatu utrudnia dziś myślenie o przyszłości planety i wzmacnia pesymizm i rezygnację. Dotyczy to również ekokrytycznych nauk humanistycznych, które zwracają uwagę na potrzebę świadomościowej transformacji, mogącej ograniczyć zasięg katastrofy klimatycznej. Wymagają one dziś wsparcia w postaci narzędzi zmiany rzeczywistości, które odpowiadałyby społecznym potrzebom całości, sensu, duchowości oraz pozostawały otwarte na inne niż tylko zachodnie modele religijności. Warto ich szukać zwłaszcza w myśleniu postsekularnym, które łączy w sobie rozumowe i intuicyjne rozumienie rzeczywistości.

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The sense of hopelessness vis-à-vis the anthropocentric paradigm makes it difficult today to think about the future of the planet and reinforces pessimism and resignation. This is also true of the eco-critically inflected humanities; they highlight the need for an awareness-raising transformation that could limit the extent of the expected climate catastrophe. At this point, they must be supported by tools capable of changing reality. Such tools must meet the social needs of wholeness, meaning, and spirituality and remain open to non-Western models of religiosity. It is especially worth looking for them in post-secular thinking, which combines a reasoned and an intuitive way of understanding reality.

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1 Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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1 Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies

2 Filipowicz A.

1 Guenther M.

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O kryzysie klimatycznym z perspektywy nieetnocentrycznej (na przykładzie filmu anime „Nausicaä z Doliny Wiatru” Hayao Miyazakiego)

Therianthropes in a Cartesian and an Animistic Cosmology: Beyond-the-Pale Monsters versus Being-in-the World Others

Against the “Anthropocene Apathy”. About the Rescue Potential of Postsecularism (on the Example of Works by the Romany Poetess Papusza)