Wdzięczność albo uśmiech widmowego kota
Gratitude, or the spectral cat’s grin

Summary/Abstract: An attempt at thinking the phenomenon of gratitude in the third decade of the 21st century. Working with tropes from anthropology, literature, and philosophy, it indicates that it is closely related to “weak presences” within the dominant order. To summon and render those presences visible opens a possibility for new being that multiplies existence’s poten-tialities. It is a gift that is perfect in its ephemerality, fragi-lity, and finitude: it is gratitude without obligation—being always in the process of emergence, and being.

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