„(…) doświadczenie jest owocem pracy, przeżycie jest fantasmagorią przeżycia”.
Walter Benjamin1)W. Benjamin, Pasaże, red. R. Tiedemann, przekł. I. Kania, posł. Z. Bauman, Kraków 2005, s. 843.
Kantowską antropologię filozoficzną fundują cztery pytania: co mogę wiedzieć?, co powinienem czynić?, czego mogę się spodziewać? (...)
Reading it today, there’s something quaint about the prediction made by eminent scholar and theoretist of literature Michał Głowiński, in a text written in the 1980s, that the dichotomy between internal and external methodologies inherited from the reaction against Positivism would eventually be abandoned, yielding to the advent of a new era in literary studies, thanks to the application of an integral method based on a communicative conception of the work of literature. (...)
Poetics has often been described in recent times as a field forced into making defensive gestures. There have also been assertions that the charges mounted by post-structuralism of a tendency to search for eidetic literariness, the need to generalize from what is consummately idiomatic, the shuttering of literature inside a closed system, and so on, are still valid. (...)
Experience is the outcome of work; immediate experience is the phantasmagoria of the idler.
Walter Benjamin1)Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin, Cambridge 1999, p. (...)