Empatia – ulubienica literatury SF
Empathy: The Favorite of Science Fiction Literature

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the intriguingly frequent problematization of empathy in modernscience fiction literature – both globally and in the Polish context – which authorsusually mention explicitly, subjecting empathy to literary interpretation, although notnecessarily an affirming one. Empathy in the form of a specific “device” or a trait typicalto humanity becomes a symbol of the absolute, a stigma of heroism, or a governingprinciple of a community, occasionally revealing the principles of an empatheticsymbiosis that exceeds the anthropocentric dimension. The author analyzes novelsand short stories by Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, along with a specialfocus on Stanisław Lem and Jacek Dukaj.

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