Nad kulturową mapą cierpienia
Beyond the Cultural Map of Suffering

Summary/Abstract: This article provides critical context for, and an analysis of, Sebastian Porzuczek’s The Mapping of Pain: Reading – Gaze – Affect (Mapowanie bólu. Lektura – spojrzenie – afekt). Porzuczek’s study is an literary-anthropological project that aims to characterize the cultural conceptualization of pain in modernity – and, to a lesser extent, in postmodernity – through interpretations of mainly-European literary and film works. This article analyses The Mapping of Pain against a backdrop of earlier Polish research in the humanities. The reading of this book inspires further questions connected with Cartesian dualism, the ethical implications of the distinction between pain and suffering, and also the influences of the COVID-19 pandemic (bringing forth the concept of the viral epidemic from the margins of the attention of the postmodern world) upon today’s society.

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