Nekros – książka o życiu
Nekros – a Book about Life

Summary/Abstract: This text is a comprehensive review of Ewa Domańska’s “Nekros. Wprowadzenie do ontologii martwego ciała” (PWN, Warszawa 2017). The unprecedented accomplishments of the author of the discussed book are both pioneering and incomparable in Polish conditions. It is precisely Ewa Domańska who postulated a distinct differentiation of death studies (thanatology) and dead body studies. On numerous occasions she wrote about the need overcome the still dominating trauma discourse for the sake of creating difficult hope and performative humanities, which actively prefigure the future and do not immerse themselves contemplatively in the demons of the past. The project conceived by Ewa Domańska, whose most complete presentation is “Nekros”, is suspended between utopia and vision; at the same time, it becomes enrooted in holistically and transdisciplinarily comprehended science.

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