Ku archeontologii martwego ciała (kontemplacyjne podejście do przeszłości)
Towards an Archeontology of the Dead body (A Contemplative Approach to the Past)

Summary/Abstract: Ewa Domańska distinguishes a distinct contemplative approach to the past which unlike documentary, commemorative or 'oral evidence' approaches undertakes, among other things, reflection on various aspects of the dead body's existence and functioning. She traces the facets of 'endism' in historical reflection, which is increasingly skeptical of the prospects of historiography characterised by anthropocentrism, ethnocentrism, eurocentrism and phallocentrism. Thus many scholars think that present-day historiography should first of all study historians their motivations, sponsors and backgrounds. Those who want the Third Millennium to be a new beginning for historiography postulate that scholars should give more thought to death, the deceased and their corpses. Domańska's claim is that in future-oriented human sciences questions concerning the past cannot be answered until we refer to ontology, to those thinkers who like Martin Heidegger study existence, death and the issue of being.

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