Dialektyka a myśl słaba
Dialectics versus a weak thought

Summary/Abstract: Review: Andrzej Zawadzki Literatura a myśl słaba [‘Literature and the ‘weak thought’’], Universitas, Kraków 2009. This review attempts at grasping the specificity of the ‘weak thought’ concept in the context of dialectics. Zawadzki refers the Gianni Vattimo work to the speculations of the German idealism, which has set the leading thread for considerations on mutual dependencies between the two formations. The notions of Verwindung, ‘trace’ or ‘nihilism’, being of key importance to Zawadzki, appear to be not so much of ‘inventions’ of the 20th-century philosophy as categories derived from an age-old philosophical tradition. Their attempted application in interpretation of literary texts is, therefore, the weak thought being harnessed in the service of literary science as much as the latter being opened to dialectic thinking.

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