Ewa Domańska
Towards an Archeontology of the Dead body (A Contemplative Approach to the Past)
Ewa Domaiiska distinguishes a distinct contemplative approach to the past which — unlike documentary, commemorative or 'oral evidence' approaches — undertakes, among other things, reflection on various aspects of the dead body's existence and functioning. She traces the facets of 'end-ism' in historical reflection, which is increasingly skeptical of the prospects of historiography characterised by anthropocentrism, ethnocentrism, eurocentrism and phallocentrism. Thus many scholars think that present-day historiography should first of all study historians — their motivations, sponsors and backgrounds. Those who want the Third Millennium to be a new beginning for historiography postulate that scholars should give more thought to death, the deceased and their corpses. Domaflska's claim is that in future-oriented human sciences questions concerning the past cannot be answered until we refer to ontology, to those thinkers who — like Martin Heidegger — study existence, death and the issue of being.
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No. 3 (2001)
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10.31261/errgo
English
Język Polski