Filozofia filologii
The philosophy of philology
Contributor(s): Artur Hellich (Editor), Helena Markowska-Fulara (Editor), Jan Potkański (Editor), Łukasz Żurek (Editor)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: history of philology; methodology of literary studies; contemporary humanities; history of science; continental philosophy
Summary/Abstract: The autors of the articles look for the answers to the questions of “What is philology? What it used to be or could be?”, “Who is a philologist and what do they do?”, “How does a philologist justify and legitimise what they do?” from various complementary perspectives: the history of the discipline and its modern developments, classic texts of philosophy and the most recent literary studies practices, a personal love for words and a sense of responsibility for the shared world. These considerations are as much meta-scientific as they are identity-based, arising from the need to answer the question about the role of the contemporary scholar of the humanities.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-4162-2
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-4154-7
- Page Count: 334
- Publication Year: 2019
- Language: Polish
Wprowadzenie
Wprowadzenie
(Introduction)
- Author(s):Artur Hellich, Jan Potkański
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:7-13
- No. of Pages:7
- Keywords:history of philology; methodology of literary studies; contemporary humanities; history of science; continental philosophy
- Summary/Abstract:The autors of the articles look for the answers to the questions of “What is philology? What it used to be or could be?”, “Who is a philologist and what do they do?”, “How does a philologist justify and legitimise what they do?” from various complementary perspectives: the history of the discipline and its modern developments, classic texts of philosophy and the most recent literary studies practices, a personal love for words and a sense of responsibility for the shared world. These considerations are as much meta-scientific as they are identity-based, arising from the need to answer the question about the role of the contemporary scholar of the humanities.
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Filologia: problemy definicyjne (od Baudouina do de Mana)
Filologia: problemy definicyjne (od Baudouina do de Mana)
(Philology: Definitional Problems (from Baudouin to de Man))
- Author(s):Łukasz Żurek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:17-42
- No. of Pages:26
- Keywords:philology; Wincenty Lutosławski; Jan Baudouin de Courtenay; Jan Bołoz Antoniewicz; history of Polish humanities
- Summary/Abstract:The author presents a brief history of the reception of philology in post-war Americaand describes the Anglo-Saxon trend of the “return to philology,” which began in the1990s. The author argues that modern attempts to redefine philology often copy the traditional historiographical narrative, in which material is subordinated (selected andorganized) to metaphors of “development,” “decline,” “fall” or “end.” As a result of suchan approach, scholars overlook the context of different philological traditions and heterogenous utterances concerning philology, diverging from the canonized narrative. Following these remarks, the author proposes an alternative model of writing (about) the history ofphilology, whose key aspect is placing different definitions of philology and philological practices in the precise cultural milieu of time and space.
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Praktykowanie filologii, wytwarzanie obecności: w stronę materialistycznego odzyskiwania humanistyki
Praktykowanie filologii, wytwarzanie obecności: w stronę materialistycznego odzyskiwania humanistyki
(Practising Philology and “Producing Presence”: Towards the Materialistic Recovery of the Humanities)
- Author(s):Jakub Skurtys
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:43-65
- No. of Pages:23
- Keywords:philosophy of presence; H.U. Gumbrecht; methodology of the humanities; materiality of communication
- Summary/Abstract:In the presented paper the author attempts to examine the philosophical concepts of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and portrays them as useful for a new model of the humanities. The author analyzes some of Gumbrecht’s writings on the condition and future of the philological disciplines. Moreover, he argues that the separation and dismissal of the elitist overtonesof Gumbrecht’s thought from the core of his ideas about the “production of presence,”“reading for moods” and “powers of philology” is crucial if one is looking for an answer to the question about what chances for philology brings the epistemological approach based on the metaphysics of presence, which reclaims the eventness of the aesthetic experience.
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Interpretować świat czy go zmieniać? O możliwych pożytkach z filologii dla życia
Interpretować świat czy go zmieniać? O możliwych pożytkach z filologii dla życia
(To Interpret the World or to Change It? On the Possible Usefulness of Philology for Life)
- Author(s):Katarzyna Szkaradnik
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:66-83
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:philology; hermeneutics; politicalness; emancipation; interpretation; social engagement
- Summary/Abstract:Among the main dilemmas concerning the humanities, especially philology, there is alsothe choice between its autotelic value and social investment. The next issue is the primacyof either reading or theory, which sometimes treats literature instrumentally, focused onits own unmasking and emancipatory mission. In the present article, some controversiesrelated to the political aspects of being a philologist, usually contrasted with its supposedneutrality, are considered. The authoress emphasizes the inevitable position of the scholar,that is, adopting a definite perspective toward texts, which, however, he or she can andshould transcend. Referring interalia to the hermeneutical conceptions of Gadamerand Marquard, she points to the social – both critical and constructive – potential of reading and interpretation. In that project, which aims to reconcile the alteration of the world with its protection, philologists are entrusted with a particularly responsible task.
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Miłość do słów w czasach mowy nienawiści. Trzy opowieści
Miłość do słów w czasach mowy nienawiści. Trzy opowieści
(Love for Words in Times of Hate Speech. Th ree Stories)
- Author(s):Joanna Soćko
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:84-100
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:philology; Ryszard Koziołek; Tadeusz Sławek; Stefan Szymutko; thinking with literature
- Summary/Abstract:The article discusses academic and quasi-academic writings of three Silesian literary scholars: Tadeusz Sławek (born in 1946), Stefan Szymutko (born in 1958) and Ryszard Koziołek (born in 1966). The author pays special attention to Koziołek’s vision of philology and hisproject of making philology an important tool for dealing with social tensions manifesting themselves in hate speech. She traces the roots of this project and shows how it corresponds with the history of philology, whose origins indicate deep interrelations between philosophical discussions, literary texts and the quality of public debates.
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Filologia–ekologia. Linie połączeń
Filologia–ekologia. Linie połączeń
(Philology – Ecology. Lines of Connection)
- Author(s):Jarosław Woźniak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:101-120
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:ecocriticism; ecology; philology; textualism; new materialisms; awareness
- Summary/Abstract:The aim of this article is to find connections between two disciplines crucial for ecocriticism,i.e. between philology and ecology. The author of the paper analyzes the transformationof ecocriticism’s attitude towards broadly defi ned philology. It is argued that thoughphilology, understood as a discipline focused on language and text, was marginalized duringthe early phases of ecocriticism, it has recently been revalued as the trend’s philosophical background which determines the ecocritical view on the extratextual world and environment. What is more, the philological practice – broadly defined as work with/focus on atext and the practice of reading – is considered to be the ecological practice. The authorfurther argues that another issue which enables one to combine philology with ecologyis the notion of awareness, which is a key concept for American transcendentalists and, as a consequence, Anglo-American ecocriticism, as well as for philology, which is hereperceived, with reference to Friedrich Nietzsche, as the philology of the world (and notas the philology of the book).
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Problemy filologiczne w historii wiedzy (o literaturze)
Problemy filologiczne w historii wiedzy (o literaturze)
(Philological Matters, History of Science and Literary Criticism)
- Author(s):Maciej Adamski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:121-138
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:philology; history of problems; literary criticism
- Summary/Abstract:In this paper the author tries to point to how to make use of the history of problems (Problemsgeschichte) in philology and the history of criticism. The concept of the historyof problems (and the related fields: history of ideas and history of concepts) is depictedin the first part of the paper; polemical views are briefly discussed as well. Attempts atapplying the history of problems in the fields of literary criticism are reviewed aft erwards. On the basis of Barbara Skarga’s and Marco Sgarbi’s ideas, in the second part of the paperthe structure of the philological problem is analyzed.
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Ryszarda Nycza język modernizmu
Ryszarda Nycza język modernizmu
(Ryszard Nycz’s Language of Polish Modernism)
- Author(s):Artur Hellich
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:141-159
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:theoretical discourse; literary term; academic metaphor; science vs. art; modernism; Ryszard Nycz; process; New Humanities
- Summary/Abstract:The aim of the article is to present the language style of Ryszard Nycz’s work with particular emphasis on the metaphors he uses (and their literary genesis) as well as his attempt toconstruct an academic dissertation from numerous quotes, intertext allusions and elementsof other discourses (which is here referred to as a from of literary criticism collage). The author puts forward the thesis that the procedure of blurring the boundaries between literary criticism and literature, which leads to the legitimization of poetic, essayistic andliterary expressions as scientific terms, follows the tradition of the academic writing of the Polish school of the theory of literary communication and – when considered asa literary practice – has modernist roots. At the end of the article, the author generalizeshis conclusions and addresses one of the problems in contemporary humanities, which is the relation of the language of literary criticism (in particular the theoretical terms) to the reality perceived as being fluid and non-substantial.
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Charyzmatyczna odnowa humanistyki
Charyzmatyczna odnowa humanistyki
(Charismatic Renewal of the Humanities)
- Author(s):Jan Potkański
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:160-177
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:affect; memory; post-secularism; community; New Humanities
- Summary/Abstract:The article reconstructs the “New Humanities”, animated by Ryszard Nycz, as a quasi-cultformation. It is argued that the formation applies in practice the principles of post-secularism, openly declared by some of its members, in particular Agata Bielik-Robson and Adam Lipszyc. It is thus a “congregation” in the sense proposed by Hegelian philosophyof religion. The synthesis of studies on memory and affects, characteristic of the New Humanities, refers, in this perspective, to the synthesis of the doctrinal imagery (myth) and the emotionally experienced cult, as described by Hegel. The second, more speculative part of the article seeks to redefine the concepts of heresy, atheism, science and law in the context of the “orthodoxy” of the New Humanities.
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W trzecim języku liczby pojedynczej. Agaty Bielik-Robson i Adama Lipszyca mesjańskie filozofie filologii
W trzecim języku liczby pojedynczej. Agaty Bielik-Robson i Adama Lipszyca mesjańskie filozofie filologii
(Third-Language Singular. Agata Bielik-Robson’s and Adam Lipszyc’s Messianic Philosophy of Philology)
- Author(s):Antoni Zając
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:178-199
- No. of Pages:22
- Keywords:Jewish philosophy; messianic thought; philosophy of literature; post-secular thought
- Summary/Abstract:This article aims to provide a preliminary presentation of the idiosyncratic philological-philosophical idioms of two thinkers: Agata Bielik-Robson and Adam Lipszyc. The author presents their concepts on the grounds of post-secular thought; he also suggests that we see Bielik-Robson’s and Lipszyc’s writings as examples of the so-called “messianic philosophy of philology,” which is based on the notion of literature as the ultimate space for negotiations between theological and secular languages in modernity. Drawing on deconstruction, the messianic philosophy of philology develops a set of micrological interpretational tools, which enable an approach to reading literary text that is sensitive towards the presence of transcendental traces in immanent discourses. This hermeneutical procedure is founded on the “messianic idea” – according to that concept, the linguistic gestures of a singular subject are inspired by hope for a new, just language that is to come, as well as hope for the arrival of a revitalized, redeemed world.
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Praktyki „mniejszościowej” historii literatury w Żmucie Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza
Praktyki „mniejszościowej” historii literatury w Żmucie
Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza
(Practices of a “Minor” History of Literature in Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s Żmut)
- Author(s):Zbigniew Jazienicki
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:200-216
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz; Adam Mickiewicz; skein; minor literature; herstory
- Summary/Abstract:The article is an attempt at applying the concept of minor literature, borrowed from thejoint works of Deleuze and Guattari, to read Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s Żmut. The starting point is the question of whether speaking up by the essayist for a repressed history of Polish romanticism and the over looked actresses of the biography of Mickiewicz qualifies as an attempt to write a “minor” history. However, the purpose of the article is a reflection on the analytical utility of the notion of “minor literature” and the risks (alsopolitical ones) inherent in philological practice based on this notion.
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Dyskusja o książce Literatura w warszawskiej prasie kulturalnej pogranicza oświecenia i romantyzmu
Dyskusja o książce Literatura w warszawskiej prasie kulturalnej pogranicza oświecenia i romantyzmu
(On the Civil War in Poland. Debate over the Book Literature in Warsaw’s Cultural Press Between Enlightenment and Romanticism)
- Author(s):Zbigniew Jazienicki, Jan Potkański, Tomasz Jędrzejewski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:217-240
- No. of Pages:24
- Keywords:classicism; romanticism; turning point; agon; archives
- Summary/Abstract:The participants of the discussion, including the author of the monograph in question, are reconstructing the categorical logic of the book, which is not fully revealed in the text. They argue about the relation between conciliatory monism and confrontational dualismas an attitude of the description of the literary field and also about the relation between continuances and interruptions in the historical-literary process. Their debate forms the basis for raising questions of transcendental nature, firstly, about the development of the literary historian’s subjectivity in the relation to his or her predecessors, secondly,about his or her attitude to what is being studied and to the receivers of the discourse of literary history, thirdly, last but not least, about the relation between literary studies and its methodology to philosophy. At the end of the discussion remarks on the immanent politicalness of the history of literature are formulated.
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„Zwrot archiwalny” w literaturoznawstwie polskim – teoria, praktyka, perspektywy
„Zwrot archiwalny” w literaturoznawstwie polskim –
teoria, praktyka, perspektywy
(The “Archival Turn” in Polish Literary Studies – Theory, Practice, Perspectives)
- Author(s):Helena Markowska-Fulara
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:243-254
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:archives; turn; philology; Actor-Network Theory; Derrida
- Summary/Abstract:In the last few decades the turns in humanities were announced so often that Danuta Ulicka, while presenting her project of literary studies, uses the phrase “archival turn” some what ironically and distances herself from the will to establish a new methodology. However, the fact is that the commentaries to her proposition picked up the new name and completed the act of creation of the new methodological perspective. The paper attempts to answer the question of how to understand the “archival” practice of the literary scholar. It is considered in the context of – firstly – different meanings of the term “archives” in the Polish and international discourse and – secondly – of those practices of Polish literary studies which can be recognized as the realization of concepts marked by the “archival turn.” As a consequence, three main forms of reflection developed within the frame work of the analyzed methodological approach are indicated: theoretical diagnosis regarding theidea of “archives,” studies concentrated on archives as an institution and projects beginning with archival research and culminating with the “revealing” of the document. The analysisof Ulicka’s proposition and related opinions also enables the author to characterize thespecific philosophy of philology which accompanies the turn towards the archives.
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Miejsce filologii w czytaniu poezji cybernetycznej na przykładzie recepcji twórczości Łukasza Podgórniego
Miejsce filologii w czytaniu poezji cybernetycznej
na przykładzie recepcji twórczości Łukasza Podgórniego
(The Role of Philology in Reading Cybernetic Poetry – Based on the Reception of the Work of Łukasz Podgórni)
- Author(s):Paulina Chorzewska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:255-268
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:cybernetic poetry; Łukasz Podgórni; cybertext; internet culture; philology
- Summary/Abstract:The paper considers the problem of the reception of Łukasz Podgórni’s poetic work in the field of university and literary criticism in the context of philological practice and literary reflection. Strategies for the description of digital and analog cybernetic poetry are highlighted. The article notices the problem of the risk of cybertext rejection andavoiding the code layer, as defined by Espen J. Aarseth. Further, the poetic digital generator of Podgórni – PLR Generatywna historia Polski pisana Comic Sansem – is analyzed. The author attempts to comment on all the layers of cybertext and on the contexts related tothe history and culture of new media.
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Filologia filmoznawstwa Karola Irzykowskiego
Filologia filmoznawstwa Karola Irzykowskiego
(Karol Irzykowski’s Philology of Film Theory)
- Author(s):Sylwia Borowska-Kazimiruk
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:269-285
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:Karol Irzykowski; ekphrasis; Jonathan Crary; Tenth Muse; philology; film theory
- Summary/Abstract:This article presents Karol Irzykowski’s ideas about film art as an original proposition of both philological and visual analysis of a new cultural phenomenon. Irzykowski was one of the Polish theoreticians who appreciated this new position of the individual wholost his or her strong beliefs in empirical capabilities of cognition and, therefore, the belief in the abilities of language which transformed into the crisis of realism’s ocular-centricmanner of description. The Tenth Muse is an original, innovative proposal of overcoming such a crisis of human perception. Irzykowski claimed, in opposition to the Bergsonian mechanism of cinematographic perception, that observation is a means of constructive cultural expression of an individual whose unstable existential position may be understood as a chance for establishing a new dynamic, a new cultural environment. An imagebe comes a never-ending impulse to overcome static forms of art, social schemes and perceptual staleness. Irzykowski mobilized his philosophical theories of seeing and his own ideas on literature’s mechanism of metaphor and combined them in his complex film theory framework, where the metaphor – both filmic and literary – gives an opportunity for breaking through a series of static linguistic and visual representations and reaching moments of true sense of one’s existential condition. In the article, this theoretical approach is presented in the light of the debate about therole of philology and its position in contemporary literary practices after the “audiovisualturn,” which has established new, complex relations between the individual, one’s text andperceived object/image.
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Przeciw autonomii. Pisarze-celebryci i próba rewizji illusio literatury
Przeciw autonomii. Pisarze-celebryci i próba rewizji illusio literatury
(Against Autonomy. Celebrity Authors and an Attempt to Revise the Illusio of Literature)
- Author(s):Dominik Antonik
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:286-308
- No. of Pages:43
- Keywords:celebrity authors; literary field; economy of literature; sociology of literature; cultural economics; Pierre Bourdieu
- Summary/Abstract:The article deals with Polish contemporary celebrity authors, who are treated as a complex phenomenon forming a new model of literary production and consumption. In that newfield of cultural production literature emerges in complex relations between the author and his image, text, media, economy, marketing, audience, general presence of the author and his work in the public space, and other varied non-textual forms of the presence of literature. The functioning of celebrity authors on such a great scale is enabled by the more and more complex relationship between fields of literature, media, and economy, which approach eachother and became more porous in order to easily exchange different forms of capital. The article considers these new conditions of cultural production in the context of a changing literary illusio. The proposed model of relational literary culture has been derived fromand contrasted with the dominating approach in academic criticism, based on Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of autonomy. In this criticised approach the phenomenon of celebrity authors is placed on the map of polarized fields of culture and economy and condemnedas an inauthentic and simple market invention. The author argues that literature can nolonger be considered as a field of struggle between high cultural value and economic capital.
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Literaturoznawca? Językoznawca? Niefilolog? O tożsamości dzisiejszego filologa – pytania i wątpliwości
Literaturoznawca? Językoznawca? Niefilolog? O tożsamości dzisiejszego filologa – pytania i wątpliwości
(Literary Scholar, Linguist, Non-Philologist? About the Identity of the Modern Philologist – Questions and Doubts)
- Author(s):Ewelina Woźniak-Wrzesińska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:309-320
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:philology; Polish studies; modern languages; literary studies; linguistics
- Summary/Abstract:In the text, I consider the problem of the status of the Polish philologist. I am interested in issues related to the identity of the philologist (understood as the place where thoughts come from). In the introduction I present the older meanings of the terms philology and philologist. By the way, I reconstruct old assessment practices of philological attitudes. A comparison of different models of recognition of the rank of the philologist encourages further consideration. In the central part of the article, I wonder what the meaning of beinga philologist is today. I ask how (on the basis of what methods and approaches) a philologistis to be recognized. In this way, I distinguish between philological specialities (linguisticand literary) and look at what connects them and what divides them – in particular in theaspect of scientific conduct. It’s obvious that both literature experts and linguists deal with the word, while the way of handling it will be different. It should, therefore, be asked – are we currently referring to the identity or the different identities of the philologist?
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