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Leaving Shadows

Summary/Abstract: In a review of Andrzej Marzec’s Antropocień. Filozofia i estetyka po końcu świata (TheAnthroposhadow: Philosophy and Esthetics after the End of the World), Żółkoś framesMarzec’s considerations in the perspective of the posthumanist current, which dealswith the climate crisis and its social consequences. Żółko presents the conceptof “anthroposhadow” outlined by Marzec by juxtaposing it with key aspects of theAnthropocene debate. The main discussion concerns the possibility of transcendingthe anthropocentric attitude, which Marzec attempts by referring to Timothy Morton’sconcept of “dark ecology,” Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology, and Jane Bennett’snew materialism. Żółko polemicizes against Marzec’s rejection of the environmentalhistory of the Holocaust by indicating that his critique fails to consider the relationalityand connections between human and non-human actors of the Holocaust.

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