Metafizyka i metasocjologia miasta
Metaphysics and Meta-Sociology of a Town

Summary/Abstract: Memory and perceptions are an equally material part of a town – one that can be told – and its metaphysical component. Each town has metaphysics of its own, which can be not solely discovered but, predominantly, which one can attempt to expand, sustain, and enhance so that we would not be surrounded by deserted Angkor, totally devoid of memory and shadows. While in Angkor we do not feel the presence of shadows. Schulzian conventions are an example of something that from the vantage point of contemporary anthroposociological self-reflection can be described as the production of metaphysics. Literature, Zhadan’s poetry or essays by literary scholars and philosophers, modest contributions by sociologists, theatrical activity and performances all comprise a successive enlivenment, perpetuation, and contribution to the metaphysics of a town that exists and lives in its assorted versions Jewish, Polish (preserved somewhere in the Eastern Borderlands), Ukrainian or Armenian. These are various pitches of the same prism, i.e. the described town.

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