Sister Bridget Costello reads Baudrillard Cover Image

Siostra Bridget Costello czyta Baudrillarda
Sister Bridget Costello reads Baudrillard

Author(s): Tomasz Kunz
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: literature; journal; jagiellonian university; Polish Studies

Summary/Abstract: The article constitutes an attempt to reflect on the present condition and potential future of Polish studies (and the future of university humanistic studies in general) as seen through a simultaneous reading of the fi fth chapter of John Maxwell Coetzee’s book Elizabeth Costello, entitled Humanities in Africa and two short essays by a French philosopher and sociologist Jean Baudrillard, taken from his book Simulacra and Simula tions. The main focus of attention is the threat of de-professionalization of humanistic studies associated with the uncontrolled multiplication of new critical languages, the disappearance of ideological and competence arguments and an uncritical cult of radical inventiveness which is not accompanied by an accumulation of knowledge.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 05+06
  • Page Range: 95-109
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish