Tożsamość jako niewygoda. Dwie genealogie nowoczesnej hamartii
Identity as Discomfort: Two Genealogies of Modern Hamartia

Summary/Abstract: Koczanowicz explores one of the most interesting effects of modernity, namely the universal sense that we are someone else. This sense is rooted in modernity’s key developments, such as the division of labour, social stratification, the collapse of universally accepted values and the appearance of the individual as a separate social category. These developments promote the notion that our identity is imposed from outside. Koczanowicz analyses this state by drawing on the concept of harmatia, borrowed from ancient poetics. But while in antiquity harmatia was linked with exceptional figures who did not recognize their actual situation, in modernity it has become more democratic, belonging to almost all people.

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