W trzecim języku liczby pojedynczej. Agaty Bielik-Robson i Adama Lipszyca mesjańskie filozofie filologii
Third-Language Singular. Agata Bielik-Robson’s and Adam Lipszyc’s Messianic Philosophy of Philology

Author(s): Antoni Zając
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Jewish philosophy; messianic thought; philosophy of literature; post-secular thought
Summary/Abstract: This article aims to provide a preliminary presentation of the idiosyncratic philological-philosophical idioms of two thinkers: Agata Bielik-Robson and Adam Lipszyc. The author presents their concepts on the grounds of post-secular thought; he also suggests that we see Bielik-Robson’s and Lipszyc’s writings as examples of the so-called “messianic philosophy of philology,” which is based on the notion of literature as the ultimate space for negotiations between theological and secular languages in modernity. Drawing on deconstruction, the messianic philosophy of philology develops a set of micrological interpretational tools, which enable an approach to reading literary text that is sensitive towards the presence of transcendental traces in immanent discourses. This hermeneutical procedure is founded on the “messianic idea” – according to that concept, the linguistic gestures of a singular subject are inspired by hope for a new, just language that is to come, as well as hope for the arrival of a revitalized, redeemed world.

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