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Groźba zezwierzęcenia z wnętrza cywilizacji
Threat of Animalism from within Civilization

Author(s): Katarzyna Gurczyńska-Sady
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Social development
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: human; animalism; civilization; Nietzsche; Scheler; Arendt; Agamben

Summary/Abstract: The question I formulate in the paper and to which I try to find an answer concerns animalism understood as a phenomenon that threatens society. Based on the thought of Nietzsche, Scheler, and Arendt I formulate a conception of subjectivity to which the threat becomes real. “Dialogue” of these philosophers provides a basis to express a warning against animalism, which does not manifests in inhumanity, cruelty or immorality, but in being passive and thoughtless. To draw the latter conclusion I adopt Agamben’s considerations.

  • Issue Year: VII/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 9-17
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish