Zeszyty Naukowe Centrum Badań im. Edyty Stein
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W poszukiwaniu sensu śmierci. O współczesnych zaświatach
Get PDFhis article is concerned with the meaning of death in representations of the other world in modern culture. The images of life after death, which are derived from religious traditions, are transformed as a result of the process of desacralization. Changes in the traditional iconography of the other world as well as its new representations in the media and popular culture (particularly in fi lms), can be discussed either in terms of saving the symbolic meaning of death or losing its importance in modern culture. Having studied certain examples, the author concludes that the search for the meaning of death inthe present is less connected with traditional or modern representations of the other worldthen with the human experience
Śmierć intelektualistki: Susan Sontag
Get PDFSusan Sontag is the most popular American intellectual. She died after a long and painful illness, i.e. cancer. The goal of this article is to show the relations between Sontag’s fi ction (Death Kit), her real life and intellectual attitudes (Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others). The analysis shows dependencies between Sontag’s writings and her own suffering as well as the experience of deat
O doświadczeniu śmierci
Get PDFThe main goal of this article is to present death as portrayed in literature and especially in poetry (Rilke, Leśmian, Norwid). The author presents poetry and philosophy dealing with death experiences as well as other people’s death. This article describes certain traumatic human emotions which accompany an experience of death
Nieśmiertelność kosmiczna. Na marginesie powieści Tomasza Manna Wyznania hochsztaplera Feliksa Krulla
Get PDFThis article presents a philosophical interpretation of Thomas Mann’s novel Confessions of Felix Krull, in which the writer presents a very original conception of immortality. According to the main character of the novel, Felix Krull, it is not possible for humans to live after death, but people are, after all, eternal beings, because their existence cannot be eliminated from the history of the world. This means that even if the world ceases to exist in the future, the fact of our existence will remain for eternity because it will always be true that we were once a part of the world and its history
Etyczne konsekwencje zaniku świadomości bycia śmiertelnym
Get PDFMax Scheler argued that the consciousness of being mortal was replaced by the knowledge of being mortal in the modern period, so now human beings only knowthat they are mortal. The goal of the article is to prove that this replacement has greatethical consequences, i.e. it is mainly the cause of the dominance of utilitarian ethics in Western civilization
The category of accident in narratives about salvation of extermination
Get PDFW artykule autor przedstawia przykłady polskich współczesnych narracji poholokaustowych (twórczość m.in. H. Krall, I. Fink, M. Głowińskiego, W. Dichtera, B. Wojdowskiego, świadectwa dzieci Holokaustu), ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem w nich kategorii przypadku. W większości tych tekstów przypadek rozpatrywany jest jako punkt zwrotny w narracji, zrywający fabułę wbrew wszelkim regułom – światopoglądowym czy historycznym, ale akceptowany ze względu na ocalający charakter. Głównym celem jest interpretacja owego egzystencjalnego i narracyjnego przypadku w świetle strukturalnej teorii narracji oraz próba odpowiedzi na pytanie o etykę takiej interpretacji. Z jednej bowiem strony, w narracjach ocalonych przypadek rzeczywiście powtarza się niemal jak refren, z drugiej – każda z tych narracji jest jednak zapisem pojedynczego losu, a samo zdarzenie ocalenia wymyka się wszelkiemu dyskursowi
Miejsce fenomenu śmierci w ontologii fundamentalnej Martina Heideggera
Get PDFThe text begins with an introduction that sketches the philosophical and cultural context of Being and Time which is followed by three parts. In the fi rst part theauthor explains the reasons why Heidegger’s analysis of human existence, which he calls a “hermeneutics of facticity”, developed into fundamental ontology. In the second part the author discovers an ontological description of death, as contained in this book, which is fundamentally different from any ontic description of this phenomenon. The last part contains the conclusions: 1. Heidegger’s fundamental ontology opens up a new chapter in the history of Western philosophy; it is an original project of a hermeneutic phenomenology; 2. the experience of death belongs, according to Heidegger, to the transcendental structure of a human being. Levinas’s and Sartre’s critique of Heidegger’s description of death is invalid because Heidegger does not describe bodily experience and pain, which accompany the process of dying, but rather the consciousness of being mortal that conditions people’s existential projects. This constitutes a deeper sense of his analyses
Ars moriendi a skandal śmierci.Rozważania nad "Ravelsteinem" Saula Bellowa
Get PDFThis article deals with the modern cultural perception of the phenomenon of death. It attempts to describe the role that death plays in individual and social existencein the post-secular age. ‘Based on a critical reading of Saul Bellow’s novel Ravelstein the author analyzes the process of tabooization of death. Putting death under taboo is based on a new cultural paradigm which is connected with a new axiology where the highest values are the following: youth, vitality, strength, health and beauty. Death (which, obviously, is in contradiction to those values) appears as something ugly, cruel and shameful, and as something to be hidden from the public view. As death has been denaturalized and medicalized, it is no longer seen as something natural or as a kind of rite of passage. Without the religious context, death (understood as a kind of new taboo) becomes an individual and social trauma. Therefore, one looks for a “third path” and tries to place death between full acceptance and total rejection. Bellow’s character, Ravelstein, also looks for that “third path”