Co po French Theory? Kłopotliwe dziedzictwo
What after French Theory? A Troublesome Legacy

Summary/Abstract: The goal of the present article is a critical reading of the legacy of the French theory, which exerted a powerful impact upon the shape of the discourse of contemporary literary studies in Poland. Insofar as “practising theory,” which has, by and large, replaced “practicing literature,” indeed revived the Polish humanities in the 1990s, today the real epistemological potential of the poststructural theoretical instruments seems to be fading. The subsequent “turns,” proclaimed in the milieus of the “new” humanities seem to endorse the intellectual status quo, because they take place within the limits of the same paradigm, to which their purely declarative character testifies. The literary scholarship of/in the future will therefore be the scholarship of retreat.

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