Poznaj nie-swego siebie. Ustęp do ksenorefleksji
Learn About Not-oneself Yourself. A Fragment of Xenoreflection

Summary/Abstract: If the philosophy of the West (and the civilisation of Man) starts with stifling the Socrateian daimonion and silencing the voice of the Philosopher himself in writing – then it ends with Lévinas “splitting the atom” of the subject and a prophetic prediction of communication (upon the very threshold of the neo-media revolution). The intention of this text is to comprehend the “entanglement” of the subject in the light of assorted contemporary discoveries and investigations. The point of departure is a simple intellectual experiment, subsequently interpreted in ten various contexts. The article is inspired by diverse philosophical sources (Agamben, Heidegger, Lévinas, Nancy, Ricoeur, Wodziński), but also by those found within the realm of assorted sciences (Gazzaniga, Heisenberg, Jaynes) and in particular the media theories (Havelock, de Kerckhove, Taylor, Ulmer). A description of the conclusions drawn from this reflection within the concepts of host / guest and hospitality / guest-the other leads towards a more in-depth discovery of a common field for the possible arrival at “such a You in which there is no I”.

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