Books by Justyna Tymieniecka-Suchanek
Wydanie II uzupełnione, 2020
Tamże, s. 153. Warto zwrócić uwagę na fakt, że kreowane przez literaturę wizerunki zwierząt utrwa... more Tamże, s. 153. Warto zwrócić uwagę na fakt, że kreowane przez literaturę wizerunki zwierząt utrwalają w potocznej świadomości fałsz etologiczny (np. wilk jest okrutny). Jednak jako literaturoznawca nie mogę do końca zgodzić się z J. Wawrzyniakiem, który pisze, że dzieła plastyczne, literackie i filmowe nie mają "z realnym wyrafinowaniem moralnym i estetycznym bezosobowej przyrody nic wspólnego" (Tamże, s. 136). Sądzę, że utwory literackie (np. baśnie o zwierzętach) lub filmy (Ptaki, Szczęki) są nie tyle projekcjami ludzkiej niewiedzy, ile efektem pewnej wizji artystycznej. To nie owe wizje fikcyjnego świata przedstawionego w dziele artystycznym są absurdalne, lecz fakt, że istnieją odbiorcy, którzy uznają je za wiarygodne źródło wiedzy. Artystyczny obraz zwierząt odbiega od prawdy etologicznej równie często, jak literackie ujęcie historyczne, które wielokrotnie rozmija się z prawdą faktograficzną, co w niczym nie umniejsza jego walorów estetycznych. 15 Wyjątek stanowią utwory o zwierzętach pisane przez Iwana Sokołowa-Mikitowa dla dzieci. "Każda z króciutkich nowel Sokołowa-Mikitowa-pisze w eseju Zielenieje gałązka Gleb Goryszyn-jest hymnem pochwalnym dla zwierzęcia, ptaka czy żyjątka. Nawet w […] pająkach autor znajduje cechy doskonałości, pożyteczności i wzruszającej oryginalności charakteru".
Mity -stereotypy -uprzedzenia, 2020
W aktualnym numerze monograficznym pisma „Zoophilologica” prezentujemy serię artykułów w większ... more W aktualnym numerze monograficznym pisma „Zoophilologica” prezentujemy serię artykułów w większości dotyczących relacji człowiek–zwierzęta
ujętych w schemat koncepcyjny: mity – stereotypy – uprzedzenia. Ową serię będziemy kontynuować w numerach kolejnych.
Russian literature and animals empowerment. Eco-philosophical issues
Summary
The research is devo... more Russian literature and animals empowerment. Eco-philosophical issues
Summary
The research is devoted to the selected problems related to eco-philosophical issues analysed on the basis of Russian literature of the last two centuries — is¬sues so far absent in literary studies discourse of the contemporary Polish and European Russian studies. The author searches and analyses philosophical prob¬lem concerning relation and interaction between people and animated nature represented mainly by animals, with consideration of assessment and moral qualification of human actions resulting from this relation (eco-ethics). The pur¬pose of the thesis is to determine and understand quality of human existence and coexistence with other species on the basis of selected literary works (prose and poetry) as well as journalism.
This interdisciplinary thesis combining the disciplines of literary studies and natural history, is an attempt to contribute to the studies called the Third Cul¬ture (term introduced by John Brockman) which includes various disciplines of natural science (and exact sciences) and humanities. The lecture given by Charles Snow at the end the fifties considerably contributed to the rapid development of these disciplines. Snow distinguished and described growing split between two cultures: traditional humanities and sciences. At present these sciences and humanities create one current in culture — the Third Culture. Its representatives synthetically combine in their work various disciplines depending on current needs. In Brockman's opinion in humanistic science, whose representatives have hermetic and marginal disputes, old ideas are only transformed while in natural sciences creative questions are put, new information appears and problems are formulated anew. Nowadays, according to Brockman, the Third Culture strongly attracts the representatives of humanities who think that ideas should be verified in compliance with empirical facts, and everything humanities are concerned with (e.g. literary studies) should take account of achievements of natural scienc¬es. The author takes into consideration achievements of socio-biology, zoosemi¬otics and cognitive ethology — sciences exploited by eco-philosophy. The thesis presents the relation ‘human being - animal' in a historical process against the background of the development of philosophical and natural sciences. Therefore, an arrangement of the material is determined by non-literary phenomena, e.g. Darwin's theory of evolution.
The thesis consists of four chapters. In the first chapter — Individual and spe¬cies subjectivity of animals. Moral status of animals against the background of the develop¬ment of eco -philosophical thought (not only Russian) — the author attempts to describe animals as a subject, taking into consideration various concepts of subjectivity of animals, to determine the place of an animal in philosophy of nature over the centuries, and to analyse an attitude towards animals in Russian philosophy (e.g. Vladimir Solovyov, Vasily Rozanov, Pyotr Kropotkin). The second chapter — Ani¬mal as a person / thing / inferior existence in Russian literature of the second half of the
19th century. Lev Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and others — is devoted to the review
of the relation ‘human being - animal' in the works of the title corypheuses and writes such as Nikolay Shcherbina, Ivan Turgenev, Vladimir Sollogoub, Anton Chekhov, Vsevolod Garshin, Vladimir Chertkov. The third chapter — Russian
literature of the first half of 20th century about “younger brothers”. From Velimir Khleb¬nikov to Daniil Andreyev — describes problems concerning overcoming anthropo¬centrism in relations between people and animals, hunting, vegetarianism and cruelty to animals. The starting point for the discussion are works of the writers: Khlebnikov and Andreyev. The above issues are also analysed on the basis of the works of Mikhail Artsybashev, Sergei Yesenin, Andrei Platonov, Alexander Dobrolubov, Nikolaj Zablocki, Lidija Zinov'eva-Annibal, Jelena Guro, Aleksandr Kuprin, Mikhail Prishvin and others. In the fourth, the most extensive chapter — Influence of the 20th century experiences on the eco -ethical tendencies in the post -war and contemporary Russian literature. From genocide to bioethics — the author makes attempts to show an animal as a victim of war, gulag, starvation, collective farm¬ing and civilization development in the works of Viktor Afanasyev, Anastasia Tsvetaeva, Varlam Shalamov, Vladimir Tendryakov, Valentin Rasputin. The last chapter is devoted to the interpretation of the complex relation ‘human being - animal' not only in extreme conditions but also in ordinary, unexceptional ones, e.g. in the works of Chyngyz Aitmatov, Andrei Bitov, Svetlana Vasilenko.
The thesis reflects human attitude towards animals in the works in which an animal has not been presented as a mask, symbol, allegory but as an animal in the literary sense. Therefore, the works presenting images of animals which have nothing to do with ethological truth (e.g. fable) have not been taken into account in this thesis. It represents modern trend of posthumanities. Posthumanities is an ethical and intellectual attitude which among others supports scientifically and legitimizes actions aimed at protecting various species, and which promotes studies in ‘human being — animal' relations called in short animal studies. The studies originated in the western intellectual thought long time ago and nowa¬days they are defined as interdisciplinary studies and institutional academic dis¬cipline in the academic process. The thesis is aimed at propagation of the studies in Poland.
The author tries to prove that in the Russian literary works an animal is not merely a pretext for exploring extensive implications of the ideology which re¬jects both instrumental, purely utilitarian attitude towards animals and primi¬tive or sentimental anthropomorphism and introduces instead thinking which is rational, scientifically justified and ontologically and ethically prolific.
Zoophilologica , 2019
Dominika Dzwonkowska (filozofia i bioetyka), Marek Głowacki (sztuka), Dariusz Gzyra (etyka praw z... more Dominika Dzwonkowska (filozofia i bioetyka), Marek Głowacki (sztuka), Dariusz Gzyra (etyka praw zwierząt), Beata Mytych-Forajter (literaturoznawstwo i ekokrytyka), Alina Mitek-Dziemba (zastępca redaktorki naczelnej), Jacek Kurek (historia), Magdalena Malinowska (pierwszy sekretarz), Dominika Pieczka (drugi sekretarz, redaktorka techniczna ds. serwisu OJS), Tomasz Nowak (językoznawstwo), Piotr Skubała (nauki biologiczne), Justyna Tymieniecka-Suchanek (redaktorka naczelna), Dobrosława Wężowicz-Ziółkowska (kulturoznawstwo)
Papers by Justyna Tymieniecka-Suchanek
Przegląd Rusycystyczny, 2024
Tekst pt. Święte zwierzęta bez zwierząt? jest recenzją książki Tatiany Goriczewej Święte zwierzęt... more Tekst pt. Święte zwierzęta bez zwierząt? jest recenzją książki Tatiany Goriczewej Święte zwierzęta w polskim przekładzie Grzegorza Ojcewicza, która została opublikowana przez wydawnictwo „GregArt” w 2022.
Dobrostan zwierząt. Różne pespektywy, 2018
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Andersheit - Fremdheit - Ungleichheit, Jan 17, 2022
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica
Artykuł jest wstępnym rozpoznaniem antropocenowego „języka”, w jakim przemawia do współczesnego o... more Artykuł jest wstępnym rozpoznaniem antropocenowego „języka”, w jakim przemawia do współczesnego odbiorcy dzieło Nikołaja Fiodorowa – Filozofia wspólnego czynu. Fiodorow przewidział kryzys planetarny, czym wpisał się w aktualną debatę o antropocenie. Autorka nawiązuje do rozważań Artioma Klujewa, Eleny Suchanowej i Gleba Bakunowa – rosyjskich filozofów, którzy słusznie doszukują się w koncepcji Fiodorowa rozwiązań problemów antropocenu, ale niesłusznie traktują ideę przezwyciężenia śmierci i wskrzeszenia zmarłych, co prowadziłoby do przeludnienia Ziemi, jako panaceum na lepszą przyszłość, którą zapewniłaby ludzkości kolonizacja kosmosu.
Teksty Drugie, 2022
(Ze wstępu) Zwierzęta kulturowo wykluczone, a więc takie, które – najogólniej rzecz ujmując – nie... more (Ze wstępu) Zwierzęta kulturowo wykluczone, a więc takie, które – najogólniej rzecz ujmując – nie cieszą się ludzką sympatią, budzą lęk i obrzydzenie, od pewnego czasu coraz częściej stają się przedmiotem poważnej debaty naukowej. Należą do nich zwłaszcza owady i robaki, pająki, żmije i węże, nietoperze i gryzonie, zwykle negatywnie waloryzowane w utworach literackich lub obrazach filmowych, będące upostaciowieniem różnych atawistycznych/instynktownych oraz irracjonalnych lęków. Za najbardziej dokuczliwych wrogów człowieka – jak przekonuje jeden z dawnych etnografów – należy uznać „wszelkie niższe formy życia – owady, myszy, szczury […], które potrafią go przemóc swoją liczebnością i powszechnym występowaniem”. Zintensyfikowane negatywne emocje (wstyd, strach, odraza, niepokój, panika), stany afektywne i napady histerii (zwykle u kobiet) wywołują szczury, wobec których stosuje się pojęcie abiektalności zaczerpnięte z teorii francuskiej filozofki Julii Kristevej. „Jej teoria «abiektu» – wstrętnego zła zawartego w nas samych, które, nie potrafiąc się go pozbyć w żaden inny sposób, staramy się przynajmniej wkopać pod kanapę”, stała się niezwykle przydatna nie tylko w psychoanalitycznym rozpoznawaniu drzemiących w człowieku lęków, ale i w filozoficznym studiowaniu stosunku ludzkiego podmiotu do wszystkiego, co budzi w nim skrajne obrzydzenie. Przedstawiciel kultury europejskiej – podkreśla Marta Tużnik – odczuwa wstręt zwłaszcza do krwi, ekskrementów, wydzielin ludzkiego organizmu, zwłok, szczurów czy robaków. Usytuowanie szczurów obok zwłok i ekskrementów jest wielce wymowne i nie wymaga komentarza. Nie powinien zatem dziwić dominujący w kulturze wysokiej i niskiej negatywny obraz szczura, który jeszcze czeka na swojego badacza.
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The following article is devoted to a symbiosis of biology and semiotics, which contributed to th... more The following article is devoted to a symbiosis of biology and semiotics, which contributed to the establishment of various inter-disciplinary areas of knowledge and trends within broadly understood semiotics: ecosemiotics (cultural and biological), biosemiotics (endosemiotics / exosemiotics), biological semiotics / semiotic biology and zoosemiotics. The author focuses on the latter. She concentrates mainly on Yuri Lotman’s works wherein numerous connections between biology and ethology can be found. An eminent Estonian biosemiotics professor Kalevi Kull has analyzed these connections in an article. The author comes to the conclusion that Lotman largely contributed to the development of zoosemiotics in Russia and Estonia
The article is devoted to the Italian short stories by Dmitrij Mierie¿kowski. In her consideratio... more The article is devoted to the Italian short stories by Dmitrij Mierie¿kowski. In her considerations, the author starts from the problem of stylization, but having analysed given works, she comes to a conclusion that they cannot be treated as Renaissance Italian short story stylised ones because they are just an imitation, paraphrase or a free translation of Italian short stories. Besides, the works by Mierie¿kowski lack an internal rift between the model and the primary system of thought due to the absence of the latter. According to the author, the short stories by Mierie¿kowski are worth paying attention to for many reasons. First, they mark a direction of the writer s cultural interests. Second, they are a rare genre among his works, and third, they constitute a loose literary series which will become a dominating literary form at the turn of his whole literary output (mainly the novel-like trilogies)
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Books by Justyna Tymieniecka-Suchanek
ujętych w schemat koncepcyjny: mity – stereotypy – uprzedzenia. Ową serię będziemy kontynuować w numerach kolejnych.
Summary
The research is devoted to the selected problems related to eco-philosophical issues analysed on the basis of Russian literature of the last two centuries — is¬sues so far absent in literary studies discourse of the contemporary Polish and European Russian studies. The author searches and analyses philosophical prob¬lem concerning relation and interaction between people and animated nature represented mainly by animals, with consideration of assessment and moral qualification of human actions resulting from this relation (eco-ethics). The pur¬pose of the thesis is to determine and understand quality of human existence and coexistence with other species on the basis of selected literary works (prose and poetry) as well as journalism.
This interdisciplinary thesis combining the disciplines of literary studies and natural history, is an attempt to contribute to the studies called the Third Cul¬ture (term introduced by John Brockman) which includes various disciplines of natural science (and exact sciences) and humanities. The lecture given by Charles Snow at the end the fifties considerably contributed to the rapid development of these disciplines. Snow distinguished and described growing split between two cultures: traditional humanities and sciences. At present these sciences and humanities create one current in culture — the Third Culture. Its representatives synthetically combine in their work various disciplines depending on current needs. In Brockman's opinion in humanistic science, whose representatives have hermetic and marginal disputes, old ideas are only transformed while in natural sciences creative questions are put, new information appears and problems are formulated anew. Nowadays, according to Brockman, the Third Culture strongly attracts the representatives of humanities who think that ideas should be verified in compliance with empirical facts, and everything humanities are concerned with (e.g. literary studies) should take account of achievements of natural scienc¬es. The author takes into consideration achievements of socio-biology, zoosemi¬otics and cognitive ethology — sciences exploited by eco-philosophy. The thesis presents the relation ‘human being - animal' in a historical process against the background of the development of philosophical and natural sciences. Therefore, an arrangement of the material is determined by non-literary phenomena, e.g. Darwin's theory of evolution.
The thesis consists of four chapters. In the first chapter — Individual and spe¬cies subjectivity of animals. Moral status of animals against the background of the develop¬ment of eco -philosophical thought (not only Russian) — the author attempts to describe animals as a subject, taking into consideration various concepts of subjectivity of animals, to determine the place of an animal in philosophy of nature over the centuries, and to analyse an attitude towards animals in Russian philosophy (e.g. Vladimir Solovyov, Vasily Rozanov, Pyotr Kropotkin). The second chapter — Ani¬mal as a person / thing / inferior existence in Russian literature of the second half of the
19th century. Lev Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and others — is devoted to the review
of the relation ‘human being - animal' in the works of the title corypheuses and writes such as Nikolay Shcherbina, Ivan Turgenev, Vladimir Sollogoub, Anton Chekhov, Vsevolod Garshin, Vladimir Chertkov. The third chapter — Russian
literature of the first half of 20th century about “younger brothers”. From Velimir Khleb¬nikov to Daniil Andreyev — describes problems concerning overcoming anthropo¬centrism in relations between people and animals, hunting, vegetarianism and cruelty to animals. The starting point for the discussion are works of the writers: Khlebnikov and Andreyev. The above issues are also analysed on the basis of the works of Mikhail Artsybashev, Sergei Yesenin, Andrei Platonov, Alexander Dobrolubov, Nikolaj Zablocki, Lidija Zinov'eva-Annibal, Jelena Guro, Aleksandr Kuprin, Mikhail Prishvin and others. In the fourth, the most extensive chapter — Influence of the 20th century experiences on the eco -ethical tendencies in the post -war and contemporary Russian literature. From genocide to bioethics — the author makes attempts to show an animal as a victim of war, gulag, starvation, collective farm¬ing and civilization development in the works of Viktor Afanasyev, Anastasia Tsvetaeva, Varlam Shalamov, Vladimir Tendryakov, Valentin Rasputin. The last chapter is devoted to the interpretation of the complex relation ‘human being - animal' not only in extreme conditions but also in ordinary, unexceptional ones, e.g. in the works of Chyngyz Aitmatov, Andrei Bitov, Svetlana Vasilenko.
The thesis reflects human attitude towards animals in the works in which an animal has not been presented as a mask, symbol, allegory but as an animal in the literary sense. Therefore, the works presenting images of animals which have nothing to do with ethological truth (e.g. fable) have not been taken into account in this thesis. It represents modern trend of posthumanities. Posthumanities is an ethical and intellectual attitude which among others supports scientifically and legitimizes actions aimed at protecting various species, and which promotes studies in ‘human being — animal' relations called in short animal studies. The studies originated in the western intellectual thought long time ago and nowa¬days they are defined as interdisciplinary studies and institutional academic dis¬cipline in the academic process. The thesis is aimed at propagation of the studies in Poland.
The author tries to prove that in the Russian literary works an animal is not merely a pretext for exploring extensive implications of the ideology which re¬jects both instrumental, purely utilitarian attitude towards animals and primi¬tive or sentimental anthropomorphism and introduces instead thinking which is rational, scientifically justified and ontologically and ethically prolific.
Papers by Justyna Tymieniecka-Suchanek
ujętych w schemat koncepcyjny: mity – stereotypy – uprzedzenia. Ową serię będziemy kontynuować w numerach kolejnych.
Summary
The research is devoted to the selected problems related to eco-philosophical issues analysed on the basis of Russian literature of the last two centuries — is¬sues so far absent in literary studies discourse of the contemporary Polish and European Russian studies. The author searches and analyses philosophical prob¬lem concerning relation and interaction between people and animated nature represented mainly by animals, with consideration of assessment and moral qualification of human actions resulting from this relation (eco-ethics). The pur¬pose of the thesis is to determine and understand quality of human existence and coexistence with other species on the basis of selected literary works (prose and poetry) as well as journalism.
This interdisciplinary thesis combining the disciplines of literary studies and natural history, is an attempt to contribute to the studies called the Third Cul¬ture (term introduced by John Brockman) which includes various disciplines of natural science (and exact sciences) and humanities. The lecture given by Charles Snow at the end the fifties considerably contributed to the rapid development of these disciplines. Snow distinguished and described growing split between two cultures: traditional humanities and sciences. At present these sciences and humanities create one current in culture — the Third Culture. Its representatives synthetically combine in their work various disciplines depending on current needs. In Brockman's opinion in humanistic science, whose representatives have hermetic and marginal disputes, old ideas are only transformed while in natural sciences creative questions are put, new information appears and problems are formulated anew. Nowadays, according to Brockman, the Third Culture strongly attracts the representatives of humanities who think that ideas should be verified in compliance with empirical facts, and everything humanities are concerned with (e.g. literary studies) should take account of achievements of natural scienc¬es. The author takes into consideration achievements of socio-biology, zoosemi¬otics and cognitive ethology — sciences exploited by eco-philosophy. The thesis presents the relation ‘human being - animal' in a historical process against the background of the development of philosophical and natural sciences. Therefore, an arrangement of the material is determined by non-literary phenomena, e.g. Darwin's theory of evolution.
The thesis consists of four chapters. In the first chapter — Individual and spe¬cies subjectivity of animals. Moral status of animals against the background of the develop¬ment of eco -philosophical thought (not only Russian) — the author attempts to describe animals as a subject, taking into consideration various concepts of subjectivity of animals, to determine the place of an animal in philosophy of nature over the centuries, and to analyse an attitude towards animals in Russian philosophy (e.g. Vladimir Solovyov, Vasily Rozanov, Pyotr Kropotkin). The second chapter — Ani¬mal as a person / thing / inferior existence in Russian literature of the second half of the
19th century. Lev Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and others — is devoted to the review
of the relation ‘human being - animal' in the works of the title corypheuses and writes such as Nikolay Shcherbina, Ivan Turgenev, Vladimir Sollogoub, Anton Chekhov, Vsevolod Garshin, Vladimir Chertkov. The third chapter — Russian
literature of the first half of 20th century about “younger brothers”. From Velimir Khleb¬nikov to Daniil Andreyev — describes problems concerning overcoming anthropo¬centrism in relations between people and animals, hunting, vegetarianism and cruelty to animals. The starting point for the discussion are works of the writers: Khlebnikov and Andreyev. The above issues are also analysed on the basis of the works of Mikhail Artsybashev, Sergei Yesenin, Andrei Platonov, Alexander Dobrolubov, Nikolaj Zablocki, Lidija Zinov'eva-Annibal, Jelena Guro, Aleksandr Kuprin, Mikhail Prishvin and others. In the fourth, the most extensive chapter — Influence of the 20th century experiences on the eco -ethical tendencies in the post -war and contemporary Russian literature. From genocide to bioethics — the author makes attempts to show an animal as a victim of war, gulag, starvation, collective farm¬ing and civilization development in the works of Viktor Afanasyev, Anastasia Tsvetaeva, Varlam Shalamov, Vladimir Tendryakov, Valentin Rasputin. The last chapter is devoted to the interpretation of the complex relation ‘human being - animal' not only in extreme conditions but also in ordinary, unexceptional ones, e.g. in the works of Chyngyz Aitmatov, Andrei Bitov, Svetlana Vasilenko.
The thesis reflects human attitude towards animals in the works in which an animal has not been presented as a mask, symbol, allegory but as an animal in the literary sense. Therefore, the works presenting images of animals which have nothing to do with ethological truth (e.g. fable) have not been taken into account in this thesis. It represents modern trend of posthumanities. Posthumanities is an ethical and intellectual attitude which among others supports scientifically and legitimizes actions aimed at protecting various species, and which promotes studies in ‘human being — animal' relations called in short animal studies. The studies originated in the western intellectual thought long time ago and nowa¬days they are defined as interdisciplinary studies and institutional academic dis¬cipline in the academic process. The thesis is aimed at propagation of the studies in Poland.
The author tries to prove that in the Russian literary works an animal is not merely a pretext for exploring extensive implications of the ideology which re¬jects both instrumental, purely utilitarian attitude towards animals and primi¬tive or sentimental anthropomorphism and introduces instead thinking which is rational, scientifically justified and ontologically and ethically prolific.