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Towards Post-Anthropocentric. Hermeneutics

Author(s): Patryk Szaj
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: hermeneutics; animal studies; posthumanism; Anthropocene;ecocriticism;

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article asks whether it is possible to practice post-anthropocentric hermeneutics. He expresses the need for opening the hermeneutic thought to the problem of what is non-human, especially in the context of contemporary diagnoses of the Anthropocene, climate crisis, ecological crisis, etc. Such a postanthropocentric correction of hermeneutics is possible due to the notion of “understanding” which can be extended towards understanding of non-human others and towards understanding with non-human others. This coincides with insights which have been formulated within animal studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, etc. In order to make such an extension happen, however, a biopolitical correction of hermeneutics is also required, which would restore the hermeneutic subject to the biological and material life.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 47-62
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish