Published: 2022-06-25

The New Humanities: In Search of Boundaries

Agata Bielik-Robson Logo ORCID , David Schauffler Logo ORCID

Website: https://ab.us.edu.pl/emp?id=24272

(A Translation into English/Przekład na język angielski)

Abstract

"The New Humanities: In Search of Boundaries"

This article attempts to discuss the philosophical contexts and meaning of the new humanities in the context of the philosophy of subjectivity. At the foundation of the new humanities, as it is argued, is not enlightenment, but Heidegger’s thought, with his excoriating critique of modern subjectivity and its Machenschaft. The article points to the foundational hubris that the new humanities oppose, and to the attempt to reinstall the subject within fixed boundaries. The new humanities, and posthumanism in particular, might backlash with violence against civilisation, comparable to that they endeavour to renounce. In order to manoeuvre through these convoluted figures of subjectivity, the article supports its theses with insightful readings of Hölderlin and Adorno.

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Bielik-Robson, A., & Schauffler, D. (2022). The New Humanities: In Search of Boundaries: (A Translation into English/Przekład na język angielski). Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (44), 199–215. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.13804

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Er(r)go 44 (1/2022)

No. 44 (2022)
Published: 2022-07-19


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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