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dc.contributor.author | Tymieniecka-Suchanek, Justyna | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-22T06:54:51Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-22T06:54:51Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9788322621707 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9788380120655 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/3819 | - |
dc.description.abstract | 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 — issues
so far absent in literary studies discourse of the contemporary Polish and
European Russian studies. The author searches and analyses philosophical problem
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 purpose
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 Culture
(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 sciences.
The author takes into consideration achievements of socio‑biology,
zoosemiotics
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 species
subjectivity of animals. Moral status of animals against the background of the development
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 — Animal
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 Khlebnikov
to Daniil Andreyev — describes problems concerning overcoming anthropocentrism
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 farming
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 nowadays
they are defined as interdisciplinary studies and institutional academic discipline
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 rejects
both instrumental, purely utilitarian attitude towards animals and primitive
or sentimental anthropomorphism and introduces instead thinking which is
rational, scientifically justified and ontologically and ethically prolific. | pl_PL |
dc.language.iso | pl | pl_PL |
dc.publisher | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | pl_PL |
dc.rights | Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/ | * |
dc.subject | filozofia przyrody | pl_PL |
dc.subject | zwierzęta w literaturze | pl_PL |
dc.subject | literatura rosyjska 20 wieku | pl_PL |
dc.subject | ekologia filozofia | pl_PL |
dc.title | Literatura rosyjska wobec upodmiotowienia zwierząt : w kręgu zagadnień ekofilozoficznych | pl_PL |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/book | pl_PL |
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