Wojciech Małecki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wojciech Małecki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wojciech |
| FAMILY NAME | Małecki |
| SIGNATURE | MAŁECKI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wrocław |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Group dance, social cohesion, and social identity in the Yali society from Papua
Group dance to music is a ubiquitous activity performed all around the world. Considering that even our distant ancestors engaged in ritual dancing, joint dances seem to be deeply rooted in human nature. Thus many scholars have hypothesized that group dancing might serve important adaptive roles. Here, we tested this premise by exploring whether group dancing to music does indeed entail social benefits, which could explain the pervasive nature of…
The Collector Hypothesis: Who Benefits More from Art, the Artist or the Collector
Human fascination with art has deep evolutionary roots, yet its role remains a puzzle for evolutionary theory. Although its widespread presence across cultures suggests a potential adaptive function, determining its evolutionary origins requires more comprehensive evidence beyond mere universality or assumed survival benefits. This paper introduces and tests the Collector Hypothesis, which suggests that artworks serve as indicators of collectors'…
Ecocriticism in Poland: Then and Now
The aim of this paper is to present a synoptic picture of the development and current state of ecocriticism in Poland. Understood in the generic sense of the study of literature and environment, ecocriticism had begun in Poland already in 1970s and has since then generated its own original tradition. Understood in the specific historical sense of a field devoted to the study of literature and environment that was consolidated in the 1990s in the …
Rorty and Beyond
Dethroning the Dark God of Absence: On Rorty, de Man and Unreadability
My aim in this paper is to shed light on Richard Rorty's critique of de Man's conception of unreadability. In particular, I explain why Rorty sees this conception as a kind of ‘negative theology’ that worships a ‘Dark God of Absence (...) whose voice is in the literariness of Language’ — a god who, importantly, must be rejected given Rorty's ‘horizontal’ thought. I also address the question of whether ‘continually rediscovering (...) the impossib…
What do thermonuclear bombs have to do with intercultural hermeneutics? (Or on the superiority of Dickens over Heidegger)
In this paper, I discuss Richard Rorty’s views on intercultural hermeneutics as presented in his essay “Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens” and in his correspondence with the Indian philosopher Anindita Niyogi Balslev. In doing so, I focus primarily on Rorty’s presumption that instead of providing an “authentic” picture of another culture, the goal of intercultural studies or hermeneutics should be to look if there is anything “of use” that a given …
Experiential Foundationalism, Linguistic Practice, and Historicity
Experiential Foundationalism, Linguistic Practice, and Historicity
Neopragmatism and the Question of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Stanley Fish
Neopragmatism and the Question of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Stanley Fish The aim of the paper is to criticize Stanley Fish's views on interdisciplinarity (particularly as far as his account of interdisciplinarity in literary studies is concerned). The first part of the article consists of: (a) a summary of his critique of the so-called religion of interdisciplinarity; (b) a description of Fish's theory of disciplinarity that underlies this…
Ascetic Priests and O'briens: Sadism and Masochism in Rorty's Writings
The late Richard Rorty has sometimes been described as a controversial, or even outrageous, thinker. Yet the reasons that stand behind such a reputation are obviously quite different from in the ca
The Collector Hypothesis: Who Benefits More from Art, the Artist or the Collector
Human fascination with art has deep evolutionary roots, yet its role remains a puzzle for evolutionary theory. Although its widespread presence across cultures suggests a potential adaptive function, determining its evolutionary origins requires more comprehensive evidence beyond mere universality or assumed survival benefits. This paper introduces and tests the Collector Hypothesis, which suggests that artworks serve as indicators of collectors'…
Dethroning the Dark God of Absence: On Rorty, de Man and Unreadability
My aim in this paper is to shed light on Richard Rorty's critique of de Man's conception of unreadability. In particular, I explain why Rorty sees this conception as a kind of ‘negative theology’ that worships a ‘Dark God of Absence (...) whose voice is in the literariness of Language’ — a god who, importantly, must be rejected given Rorty's ‘horizontal’ thought. I also address the question of whether ‘continually rediscovering (...) the impossib…
Ascetic Priests and O'briens: Sadism and Masochism in Rorty's Writings
The late Richard Rorty has sometimes been described as a controversial, or even outrageous, thinker. Yet the reasons that stand behind such a reputation are obviously quite different from in the ca
Neopragmatism and the Question of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Stanley Fish
Neopragmatism and the Question of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Stanley Fish The aim of the paper is to criticize Stanley Fish's views on interdisciplinarity (particularly as far as his account of interdisciplinarity in literary studies is concerned). The first part of the article consists of: (a) a summary of his critique of the so-called religion of interdisciplinarity; (b) a description of Fish's theory of disciplinarity that underlies this…
Ascetic Priests and O'briens: Sadism and Masochism in Rorty's Writings
The late Richard Rorty has sometimes been described as a controversial, or even outrageous, thinker. Yet the reasons that stand behind such a reputation are obviously quite different from in the ca
Experiential Foundationalism, Linguistic Practice, and Historicity
Experiential Foundationalism, Linguistic Practice, and Historicity
Dethroning the Dark God of Absence: On Rorty, de Man and Unreadability
My aim in this paper is to shed light on Richard Rorty's critique of de Man's conception of unreadability. In particular, I explain why Rorty sees this conception as a kind of ‘negative theology’ that worships a ‘Dark God of Absence (...) whose voice is in the literariness of Language’ — a god who, importantly, must be rejected given Rorty's ‘horizontal’ thought. I also address the question of whether ‘continually rediscovering (...) the impossib…
What do thermonuclear bombs have to do with intercultural hermeneutics? (Or on the superiority of Dickens over Heidegger)
In this paper, I discuss Richard Rorty’s views on intercultural hermeneutics as presented in his essay “Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens” and in his correspondence with the Indian philosopher Anindita Niyogi Balslev. In doing so, I focus primarily on Rorty’s presumption that instead of providing an “authentic” picture of another culture, the goal of intercultural studies or hermeneutics should be to look if there is anything “of use” that a given …
Ecocriticism in Poland: Then and Now
The aim of this paper is to present a synoptic picture of the development and current state of ecocriticism in Poland. Understood in the generic sense of the study of literature and environment, ecocriticism had begun in Poland already in 1970s and has since then generated its own original tradition. Understood in the specific historical sense of a field devoted to the study of literature and environment that was consolidated in the 1990s in the …
Rorty and Beyond
Group dance, social cohesion, and social identity in the Yali society from Papua
Group dance to music is a ubiquitous activity performed all around the world. Considering that even our distant ancestors engaged in ritual dancing, joint dances seem to be deeply rooted in human nature. Thus many scholars have hypothesized that group dancing might serve important adaptive roles. Here, we tested this premise by exploring whether group dancing to music does indeed entail social benefits, which could explain the pervasive nature of…
The Collector Hypothesis: Who Benefits More from Art, the Artist or the Collector
Human fascination with art has deep evolutionary roots, yet its role remains a puzzle for evolutionary theory. Although its widespread presence across cultures suggests a potential adaptive function, determining its evolutionary origins requires more comprehensive evidence beyond mere universality or assumed survival benefits. This paper introduces and tests the Collector Hypothesis, which suggests that artworks serve as indicators of collectors'…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works)