W poprzek i na skos. Uwagi na marginesie książki "Kulturo-znawstwo. Dyscyplina bez dyscypliny?"
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Summary/Abstract: Review: Kulturo-znawstwo. Dyscyplina bez dyscypliny? [‘Studies-in-Culture: A discipline without a discipline?’], ed. by W.J. Burszta, M. Januszkiewicz, Wydawnictwo Szkoły Wyższej Psychologii Społecznej ‘Academica’ [Warsaw School of Social Sciences & Humanities press], Warszawa 2010. The book being reviewed is a monograph by various authors who have attempted at defining the position of cultural studies among other research areas (history, literary science, philosophy, ethnology or anthropology), trying to point out to the most typical cognitive strategies which may shape up the cultural studies’ specificity. The reviewer primarily refers to two threads touched upon in this publication: a profile of the research attitude referred to as ‘cultural-study-oriented’ and the history of Polish research that can be considered to have anticipated our contemporary cultural studies. Cultural studies generally tend to renounce any association with the formula of traditional disciplines characterised by specifically defined subject and research methods; yet, there can be no better word describing its purpose. Beside internal discussions on crises of subsequent traditional disciplines, this might be seen as a manifestation of eventual prevalence of non-systemic and post-disciplinary thinking in the humanities. Viewed from a different angle, they may be considered an attempt of saving the humanities’ unity against modern specialisation trends.

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