Krzysztof Ziarek
Biographic Data
| ID | 990888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Krzysztof Ziarek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Krzysztof |
| FAMILY NAME | Ziarek |
| SIGNATURE | ZIAREK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1941-9034 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
All of Nothing: Dis-Humanization” in Lispector and Heidegger
The essay develops a parallax between Lispector and Heidegger with regard to the question of being: being not as an idea or a concept, or as anything substantive, but being in the spatio-temporal sense of being in being, of the event which lets each instant of “in being” take place. Instantiating this proximity, the essay focuses on dis-humanization and the role that openness to nothingness plays in this context. Lispector’s writings, especially …
The Poetic Way of Thinking
Heidegger repeatedly performs the encounter of thinking and poetry, explicitly for the sake of inaugurating a non-metaphysical way of thinking. This transformed thinking is to be poetic and non-conceptual, eschewing the comfort of transparent meaning, the grasping power of concepts, the presentational force of images, or the self-evident correctness of propositional statements. The need for such a non-metaphysical thinking arises historically, at…
The Nonviolent "Enjunction" of Being: Heidegger on Ge-walt
Research Article| July 01 2014 The Nonviolent "Enjunction" of Being: Heidegger on Ge-walt Krzysztof Ziarek Krzysztof Ziarek University at Buffalo, SUNY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2014) 14 (2): 65–78. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.14.2.0065 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn E…
Language after Heidegger
Heidegger's impact on the language of philosophy
Ceaseless Poverty”: Image and the Poietic Word
Looking at Dickinson and Hölderlin, this essay begins by exploring the idea of the poetic dimension of existence and its relation to the image, or more precisely, to the capability to disclose into images. For Dickinson the relentless “poverty” of a non-poetic existence indicates that what is missing from such existence are not just images but the capacity for their “disclosing” - the poetic gift or aptitude. With the help of Heidegger’s essays o…
A Vulnerable World: Heidegger on Humans and Finitude
A Vulnerable World:Heidegger on Humans and Finitude Krzysztof Ziarek (bio) The notion of vulnerability comes from the Late Latin vulnerabilis, derived from vulnerare “to wound,” which comes from vulner-, vulnus “wound.” As the Merriam-Webster dictionary suggests, it is probably akin to Latin vellere, “to pluck,” and Greek oulē, “wound.” The Latin noun vulnus refers primarily to bodily wounds and moral hurts or emotional damages, but it also signi…
Reticent event: Letting Things Happen
The Limits of Life: A Non-Anthropic View of World and Finitude
The geological perspective adopted and validated by the term Anthropocene brings into view an interesting quandary, as the term in the same gesture endorses anthropocentrism and yet calls the centrality of the human into question in relation to the geological span of the planet or the cosmic time of the galaxy. Therefore, I use the Anthropocene as a prompt for a critique of the anthropological conception of the human and of technology underlying …
Noting Silence
In coming to words, language "reserves" itself: it holds back its event, keeping it illegible and silent. It is possible to see much of modern innovative or "experimental" poetry as such an experience of reticence and stillness, an experiment of language listening to itself "speaking" in order to allow the force of the illegible to come to speech. How this silence both limits what can be said and holds what has been written open to the possibilit…
The Way of World, or the Critique of Cosmo-Technics
The Return to Philosophy? Or: Heidegger and the Task of Thinking
Krzysztof Ziarek's essay, The Return to Philosophy? or: Heidegger and the Task of Thinking, constitutes a response to Russell. While Ziarek admits that there is some philological sense in the attempt to read Heidegger through a transcendental optics, he argues that philosophically this strategy risks covering-up the most significant developments of Heidegger's thinking. Whilst it might be said that the attempt to locate a transcendental reduction…
After Humanism: Agamben and Heidegger
Placed side by side, Giorgio Agamben's The Open and Martin Heidegger's "Letter on Humanism" might read like two versions of the critical question about the aftermath of humanism. For Agamben, the answer lies in the rendering inoperative of the anthropological machine of humanism and the resulting liberation of the human-animal relation into the figure of nonknowledge. For Heidegger, the questioning pivots on the issue of the human in relation to …
Adorno and Heidegger: Philosophical Questions
Adorno and Heidegger explores the conflictual history of two important traditions of twentieth-century European thought: the critical theory of Theodor W. Adorno and the ontology of Martin Heidegger. As is well known, there has been little productive engagement between these two schools of thought, in large measure due to Adorno's sustained and unanswered critique of Heidegger. Stemming from this critique, numerous political and philosophical bar…
The Turn of Art: The Avant-Garde and Power
New Literary History - Volume 33, Number 1, Winter 2002
Is All Technological? Global Power and Aesthetic Forces
Linking global forms of power and aesthetics may appear far from obvious and unexpected in the context of debates about globalization, which remain predominantly economic, political, or sociological in character. Art and aesthetic questions seem relatively unimportant and secondary to far more significant economic, political, social, or more rarely ethical considerations, which occupy the foreground in the plethora of meetings, speeches, and publ…
Alternative vision: Ethics, Power, and Levin's The Philosopher Gaze
Proximities: Irigaray and Heidegger on Difference
Love and the Debasement of Being: Irigaray's Revisions of Lacan and Heidegger
Postmodern Culture - Volume 10, Number 1, September 1999
Powers to Be: Art and Technology in Heidegger and Foucault
Etude de la relation entre l'esthetique, le pouvoir et la force dans la problematique de la techne et de la poiesis etudiee par Foucault et Heidegger dans le contexte post-nietzscheen de la modernite poetique et technologique. Examinant le lien entre physis, poesie et langage chez Heidegger, d'une part, ainsi que sa conception non-instrumentale et non-anthropologique de la technologique, d'autre part, l'A. montre que l'esthetique de l'existence d…
The ethos of everydayness: Heidegger on poetry and language
Heidegger and the Poets: Poiesis/Sophia/Techne
The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other
There is a growing recognition of Levinas's importance. It can in part be attributed to an increasing concern that twentieth-century continental philosophy seems to have no place for ethics. In making ethics fundamental to philosophy, rather than a problem to which we might one day return, Levinas transforms continental thought. The book brings together some of the most interesting and far-reaching responses to the work of Levinas, in three diffe…
The Reception of Heidegger's Thought in American Literary Criticism
Powers to Be: Art and Technology in Heidegger and Foucault
Etude de la relation entre l'esthetique, le pouvoir et la force dans la problematique de la techne et de la poiesis etudiee par Foucault et Heidegger dans le contexte post-nietzscheen de la modernite poetique et technologique. Examinant le lien entre physis, poesie et langage chez Heidegger, d'une part, ainsi que sa conception non-instrumentale et non-anthropologique de la technologique, d'autre part, l'A. montre que l'esthetique de l'existence d…
The ethos of everydayness: Heidegger on poetry and language
The Nonviolent "Enjunction" of Being: Heidegger on Ge-walt
Research Article| July 01 2014 The Nonviolent "Enjunction" of Being: Heidegger on Ge-walt Krzysztof Ziarek Krzysztof Ziarek University at Buffalo, SUNY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2014) 14 (2): 65–78. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.14.2.0065 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn E…
A Vulnerable World: Heidegger on Humans and Finitude
A Vulnerable World:Heidegger on Humans and Finitude Krzysztof Ziarek (bio) The notion of vulnerability comes from the Late Latin vulnerabilis, derived from vulnerare “to wound,” which comes from vulner-, vulnus “wound.” As the Merriam-Webster dictionary suggests, it is probably akin to Latin vellere, “to pluck,” and Greek oulē, “wound.” The Latin noun vulnus refers primarily to bodily wounds and moral hurts or emotional damages, but it also signi…
The Limits of Life: A Non-Anthropic View of World and Finitude
The geological perspective adopted and validated by the term Anthropocene brings into view an interesting quandary, as the term in the same gesture endorses anthropocentrism and yet calls the centrality of the human into question in relation to the geological span of the planet or the cosmic time of the galaxy. Therefore, I use the Anthropocene as a prompt for a critique of the anthropological conception of the human and of technology underlying …
The Return to Philosophy? Or: Heidegger and the Task of Thinking
Krzysztof Ziarek's essay, The Return to Philosophy? or: Heidegger and the Task of Thinking, constitutes a response to Russell. While Ziarek admits that there is some philological sense in the attempt to read Heidegger through a transcendental optics, he argues that philosophically this strategy risks covering-up the most significant developments of Heidegger's thinking. Whilst it might be said that the attempt to locate a transcendental reduction…
After Humanism: Agamben and Heidegger
Placed side by side, Giorgio Agamben's The Open and Martin Heidegger's "Letter on Humanism" might read like two versions of the critical question about the aftermath of humanism. For Agamben, the answer lies in the rendering inoperative of the anthropological machine of humanism and the resulting liberation of the human-animal relation into the figure of nonknowledge. For Heidegger, the questioning pivots on the issue of the human in relation to …
Is All Technological? Global Power and Aesthetic Forces
Linking global forms of power and aesthetics may appear far from obvious and unexpected in the context of debates about globalization, which remain predominantly economic, political, or sociological in character. Art and aesthetic questions seem relatively unimportant and secondary to far more significant economic, political, social, or more rarely ethical considerations, which occupy the foreground in the plethora of meetings, speeches, and publ…
The Reception of Heidegger's Thought in American Literary Criticism
The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other
There is a growing recognition of Levinas's importance. It can in part be attributed to an increasing concern that twentieth-century continental philosophy seems to have no place for ethics. In making ethics fundamental to philosophy, rather than a problem to which we might one day return, Levinas transforms continental thought. The book brings together some of the most interesting and far-reaching responses to the work of Levinas, in three diffe…
The ethos of everydayness: Heidegger on poetry and language
Heidegger and the Poets: Poiesis/Sophia/Techne
Powers to Be: Art and Technology in Heidegger and Foucault
Etude de la relation entre l'esthetique, le pouvoir et la force dans la problematique de la techne et de la poiesis etudiee par Foucault et Heidegger dans le contexte post-nietzscheen de la modernite poetique et technologique. Examinant le lien entre physis, poesie et langage chez Heidegger, d'une part, ainsi que sa conception non-instrumentale et non-anthropologique de la technologique, d'autre part, l'A. montre que l'esthetique de l'existence d…
Love and the Debasement of Being: Irigaray's Revisions of Lacan and Heidegger
Postmodern Culture - Volume 10, Number 1, September 1999
Proximities: Irigaray and Heidegger on Difference
Alternative vision: Ethics, Power, and Levin's The Philosopher Gaze
The Turn of Art: The Avant-Garde and Power
New Literary History - Volume 33, Number 1, Winter 2002
Is All Technological? Global Power and Aesthetic Forces
Linking global forms of power and aesthetics may appear far from obvious and unexpected in the context of debates about globalization, which remain predominantly economic, political, or sociological in character. Art and aesthetic questions seem relatively unimportant and secondary to far more significant economic, political, social, or more rarely ethical considerations, which occupy the foreground in the plethora of meetings, speeches, and publ…
Adorno and Heidegger: Philosophical Questions
Adorno and Heidegger explores the conflictual history of two important traditions of twentieth-century European thought: the critical theory of Theodor W. Adorno and the ontology of Martin Heidegger. As is well known, there has been little productive engagement between these two schools of thought, in large measure due to Adorno's sustained and unanswered critique of Heidegger. Stemming from this critique, numerous political and philosophical bar…
The Return to Philosophy? Or: Heidegger and the Task of Thinking
Krzysztof Ziarek's essay, The Return to Philosophy? or: Heidegger and the Task of Thinking, constitutes a response to Russell. While Ziarek admits that there is some philological sense in the attempt to read Heidegger through a transcendental optics, he argues that philosophically this strategy risks covering-up the most significant developments of Heidegger's thinking. Whilst it might be said that the attempt to locate a transcendental reduction…
After Humanism: Agamben and Heidegger
Placed side by side, Giorgio Agamben's The Open and Martin Heidegger's "Letter on Humanism" might read like two versions of the critical question about the aftermath of humanism. For Agamben, the answer lies in the rendering inoperative of the anthropological machine of humanism and the resulting liberation of the human-animal relation into the figure of nonknowledge. For Heidegger, the questioning pivots on the issue of the human in relation to …
Noting Silence
In coming to words, language "reserves" itself: it holds back its event, keeping it illegible and silent. It is possible to see much of modern innovative or "experimental" poetry as such an experience of reticence and stillness, an experiment of language listening to itself "speaking" in order to allow the force of the illegible to come to speech. How this silence both limits what can be said and holds what has been written open to the possibilit…
The Way of World, or the Critique of Cosmo-Technics
Reticent event: Letting Things Happen
The Limits of Life: A Non-Anthropic View of World and Finitude
The geological perspective adopted and validated by the term Anthropocene brings into view an interesting quandary, as the term in the same gesture endorses anthropocentrism and yet calls the centrality of the human into question in relation to the geological span of the planet or the cosmic time of the galaxy. Therefore, I use the Anthropocene as a prompt for a critique of the anthropological conception of the human and of technology underlying …
Language after Heidegger
Heidegger's impact on the language of philosophy
Ceaseless Poverty”: Image and the Poietic Word
Looking at Dickinson and Hölderlin, this essay begins by exploring the idea of the poetic dimension of existence and its relation to the image, or more precisely, to the capability to disclose into images. For Dickinson the relentless “poverty” of a non-poetic existence indicates that what is missing from such existence are not just images but the capacity for their “disclosing” - the poetic gift or aptitude. With the help of Heidegger’s essays o…
A Vulnerable World: Heidegger on Humans and Finitude
A Vulnerable World:Heidegger on Humans and Finitude Krzysztof Ziarek (bio) The notion of vulnerability comes from the Late Latin vulnerabilis, derived from vulnerare “to wound,” which comes from vulner-, vulnus “wound.” As the Merriam-Webster dictionary suggests, it is probably akin to Latin vellere, “to pluck,” and Greek oulē, “wound.” The Latin noun vulnus refers primarily to bodily wounds and moral hurts or emotional damages, but it also signi…
The Nonviolent "Enjunction" of Being: Heidegger on Ge-walt
Research Article| July 01 2014 The Nonviolent "Enjunction" of Being: Heidegger on Ge-walt Krzysztof Ziarek Krzysztof Ziarek University at Buffalo, SUNY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2014) 14 (2): 65–78. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.14.2.0065 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn E…
The Poetic Way of Thinking
Heidegger repeatedly performs the encounter of thinking and poetry, explicitly for the sake of inaugurating a non-metaphysical way of thinking. This transformed thinking is to be poetic and non-conceptual, eschewing the comfort of transparent meaning, the grasping power of concepts, the presentational force of images, or the self-evident correctness of propositional statements. The need for such a non-metaphysical thinking arises historically, at…
All of Nothing: Dis-Humanization” in Lispector and Heidegger
The essay develops a parallax between Lispector and Heidegger with regard to the question of being: being not as an idea or a concept, or as anything substantive, but being in the spatio-temporal sense of being in being, of the event which lets each instant of “in being” take place. Instantiating this proximity, the essay focuses on dis-humanization and the role that openness to nothingness plays in this context. Lispector’s writings, especially …
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