Departament Loreto. Las i jaźń
The Loreto Department. Rainforest and the Self

Summary/Abstract: The author brings the reader close to an interpretation of the Amazon rainforest comprehended as a “runaway rebellion of life”. The approach to the rainforest as a living being composed of symbiotically co-existing species of plants and animals, proposed by Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and other researchers connected with Indian perspectivism, discloses a number of aspects calling for further reflection. The repulsion, feeling of being lost, and fear experienced by a Westerner facing a rainforest demonstrates elementary aporia passed over in silence, i.e. the impassable unity of man and Nature. The presented text is a record of an auto-ethnographic experience of a stay in Peruvian Amazonia (Department of Loreto) in 2019.

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