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A Dog’s Death, or Heidegger and Gombrowicz’s Discourses on People and Animals

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the intertextual relations between Gombrowicz’s oeuvre andHeidegger’s philosophy with particular emphasis on the themes of human-animalrelations, and the matters of human’s and animal’s death. Analyses revealed that bothHeidegger and Gombrowicz’s anthropological projects differ fundamentally. WhileHeidegger seeks to capture what is humanity by multiplying divisions between peopleand animals, Gombrowicz in many ways problematizes such divisions. The article’sessential methodological context is the field of animal studies that frequently critiquesHeidegger’s concepts. By comparison, Gombrowicz avoids these anthropocentric pitfalls,which makes Bielecki contradict current scholarship that generally gravitates towarda conviction that Gombrowicz consistently stabilizes the firm boundary between thehuman and the animal.

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