Praktykowanie filologii, wytwarzanie obecności: w stronę materialistycznego odzyskiwania humanistyki
Practising Philology and “Producing Presence”: Towards the Materialistic Recovery of the Humanities

Author(s): Jakub Skurtys
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: philosophy of presence; H.U. Gumbrecht; methodology of the humanities; materiality of communication
Summary/Abstract: In the presented paper the author attempts to examine the philosophical concepts of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and portrays them as useful for a new model of the humanities. The author analyzes some of Gumbrecht’s writings on the condition and future of the philological disciplines. Moreover, he argues that the separation and dismissal of the elitist overtonesof Gumbrecht’s thought from the core of his ideas about the “production of presence,”“reading for moods” and “powers of philology” is crucial if one is looking for an answer to the question about what chances for philology brings the epistemological approach based on the metaphysics of presence, which reclaims the eventness of the aesthetic experience.

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