Agata Bielik‐robson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 81464 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Agata Bielik‐robson |
| PRENOMES | Agata |
| SOBRENOME | Bielik‐robson |
| ASSINATURA | ROBSON A B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9638-6758 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
“Beatific Horror, Wretched Bliss”
Susan Taubes was often juxtaposed with thinkers of a similar Gnostic sensibility: Simone Weil, Martin Heidegger, and her husband, Jacob Taubes. There is, however, another figure who could be compared to Susan Taubes: Clarice Lispector, a Brazilian thinker-novelist of a Jewish East-European origin. In my essay, I attempt to show that they both share a peculiar, perhaps uniquely feminine, type of Gnosticism that reacts to “the exclusion of women.” …
Title Lurianic Fable
This essay conducts a comparative analysis of the literary use of kabbalistic motives in the two seemingly very distant authors: Jacques Derrida and Philip K. Dick. It shows how the Lurianic “fable,” conceived in the Derridean terms as a literary récit, shapes their understanding of time as an open-ended game whose outcome remains unknown. It thus wants to prove that Derrida’s essay Given Time, based on the little prose by Charles Baudelaire call…
Forum. Humanistyka postsekularna. Próba rekapitulacji
Od 2002, nr 1/2 wyd.: Stowarzyszenie "Pro Cultura Litteraria"
“Humbled onto Death”
This essay reflects on the concept of the death of God as part and parcel of modern philosophical theology: a genre of thinking that came into existence with Hegel’s announcement of the “speculative Good Friday” as the most natural expression of die Religion der neuen Zeiten, “the religion of modern times”. In my interpretation, the death of God not only does not spell the end of the era of atheism but, on the contrary, inaugurates a new era of c…
The Sum of All Fears
My essay positions Heidegger’s Black Notebooks ( Schwarze Hefte ) in the light of the later transformation of his thought after die Kehre , which introduces a new motif: “the withdrawal of Being.” And while the Jewish question disappears from his official discourse, the essay poses it nonetheless, despite and against Heidegger’s silence: Does the diagnosis from the Black Notebooks , which perceives the Jew as the agent of metaphysical destruction…
Exodus into Ordinary Life
This essay focuses on Eric Santner's psychoanalytic reinterpretation of the crucial symbol of Judaism - yetziat mitzrayim, the getting out of Egypt - as "the Exodus out of our own Egyptomania." Formulated in his book on Rosenzweig and Freud, On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life, it appears in all Santner's later works concerned with political theology, where "Egyptomania" stands for everything that overburdens human life with an excessive "sign…
Reditus into self-inflicted immaturity
In my essay, I offer an interpretation of Giorgio Agamben's political thought as a case of philosophical perversion. According to Lacan, perverse practice is based on a structural non-personal enjoyment, in which a pervert assumes the role of an executioner, meticulously executing his task. My analysis will focus on Agamben's perverse use of the messianic discourse, the aim of which is to explode it from within: while applying all elements of the…
Memory - A Pharmakon
This essay examines the pathologies of Polish memory through Melanie Klein’s psychoanalytical theory. Bielik-Robson suggests that the majority of what is seen as historical memory in contemporary Poland is no memory at all but a compulsion to repeat, reminiscent of the dark ritual of an ever-returning trauma. It is of course risky to extrapolate from psychoanalytical methods to collective subjects, but this essay attempts to describe the assumpti…
The Culture of the End
This project was accomplished with funds from the program“Development of Scientific Journals,” awarded by the Ministry of Educationand Science in 2021, decision number rcn/sp/0575/2021/1
God of Montaigne, Spinoza, and Derrida-The Marrano (Crypto)Theology of Survival
In this essay I offer an outline of a theology of survival as it emerges from the writings of the three modern Marrano thinkers: Michel de Montaigne, Baruch Spinoza, and Jacques Derrida. I will argue that, in their thought which is deeply concerned with the apology of life, the Marrano choice of living on over the martyrological death becomes affirmed as the right thing to do despite the price of forced conversion-and that this choice, once refle…
The New Humanities
"The New Humanities: In Search of Boundaries" This article attempts to discuss the philosophical contexts and meaning of the new humanities in the context of the philosophy of subjectivity. At the foundation of the new humanities, as it is argued, is not enlightenment, but Heidegger’s thought, with his excoriating critique of modern subjectivity and its Machenschaft. The article points to the foundational hubris that the new humanities oppose, an…
Psychoanalysis as Torat Hayim
Is there any reason for calling psychoanalysis a ‘Jewish science’? There is one, particularly significant: the affirmation of the act of birth thanks to which there emerges a new individual psychic life. In this article, I argue that the psychoanalysis which takes a positive view on the issue of separation is natalistic : it offers a particular philosophy of life, which chimes with the existential tenets of Jewish tradition. The Jewishness of psy…
The Harnessed Lightning, or the Politics of Apocalypse
What could be the common thread linking these three very different thinkers: Hegel, Rosenzweig, and Derrida? In my essay, I will argue that this link is provided by a certain form of political theology which is polemical towards Carl Schmitt’s notion of the katechon or the “restrainer of the apocalypse.” While the political theology which they propose is also based on the idea of the restraint, it takes a different form than the Schmittian postpo…
The Edges of the World
This essay is a theologico-philosophical meditation on Bruno Schulz, focusing on his “love for the marginal”: a special attention paid to tandeta, in other words all things trashy, located on the eponymous edges of the world, far away from the center. Contrary to the assumed mode of interpretation, which reads Schulz’s fascination with the “dark forces of life” in terms of the depth subversive toward the surface, I propose a different scheme: an …
Democracy
The Exodus into the Utterly-New
Marańska instrukcja Derridy
Artykuł analizuje wypowiedzi Jacques’a Derridy na temat nowoczesnego maranizmu i własnej tożsamości w kontekście całej jego twórczości. Marranismo to dla filozofa nie tylko kondycja żydowskich obywateli Toledo, którym siłą narzucono chrześcijańską tożsamość. To także szansa, by poszukać filozoficznego języka, który przeciwstawiłby się kanonicznej hegemonii myśli zachodniej, a tym samym wymknął się mierniczym schematom tradycji. Utożsamiając się z…
Is the Human Being Redeemable? A Meditation on Rosenzweig’s Claim That Death Is Very Good
In this article I claim there is no contradiction involved in Franz Rosenzweig’s love of life and his apology for death: what he loves and wants us to love is the finite life , life offered in its finitude which should in the end appear as enough – that is, sufficient and fit for everything we could want from life, redemption included. The beyond toward which death as the end gestures is not a promise of immortality, offering a transcendence in t…
Faith and Knowledge, Reconsidered
Preview: Almost twenty-five years have passed after the publication of Jacques Derrida’s 1996 seminal essay, “Faith and Knowledge: Religion at the Limits of Reason Alone,” one of the most important, but also most enigmatic post-secular texts of late modernity. Six articles in this issue are devoted directly to Derrida’s essay. The other two can also be read along them as dealing with broadly conceived post-secular issues. They all can be brought …
Derrida’s Umbrapolitics
This essay focuses on political implications of Derrida’s messianicité as a form of Marrano messianism: a universal vision of community “out of joints” which, despite its disjointedness and inner separation, nonetheless addresses itself as “we” (although always in inverted commas). By referring to the generalized “Marrano experience” – the fate of those Sephardic Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity and, in consequence, became neither …
Other, not Hostile
This essay has two parts. In the first, I focus on the dangers of what Zygmunt Bauman called allosemitism. I draw on recent Polish history and paint a dynamic portrait of diasporic life in contemporary Poland, which has become divided into two opposite and often warring camps: the one convinced that those who claim Jewish descent should embrace »pure Jewish identity,« understood in religious terms, versus the other, which still leans towards assi…
Interrogating Modernity
“The God of Myth Is Not Dead—” Modernity and Its Cryptotheologies
“The God of Myth is Not Dead—” Modernity and its Cryptotheologies
Fenomen maranizmu
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Interrogating Modernity
The Post-Secular Turn
The aim of this essay is to give a general and accessible overview of the so called "post-secular" turn in the contemporary humanities.The main idea behind it is that it constitutes an answer to the crisis of the secular grand narratives of modernity: the Hegelian narrative of the immanent progress of the Spirit, as well as the enlightenmental narrative of universal emancipation.The post-secularist thinkers come in three variations which this ess…
God of Montaigne, Spinoza, and Derrida-The Marrano (Crypto)Theology of Survival
In this essay I offer an outline of a theology of survival as it emerges from the writings of the three modern Marrano thinkers: Michel de Montaigne, Baruch Spinoza, and Jacques Derrida. I will argue that, in their thought which is deeply concerned with the apology of life, the Marrano choice of living on over the martyrological death becomes affirmed as the right thing to do despite the price of forced conversion-and that this choice, once refle…
Marrano Universalism
Like Solomon,I have married and married the speech of strangersCharles Reznikoff, Jerusalem the Golden
The Messiah and the Great Architect
This articles criticizes utopian thinking—but not from the conservative perspective, seeing human society as inherently flawed and unable to progress, morally and politically. It opposes utopia in the name of messianic philosophico-theological heritage, often confused with the utopian strain or overshadowed by it. Today, mostly thanks to Derrida and his own philosophical version of “messianicity” derived from Abrahamic religions, though by no mea…
Bad Timing
Bad Timing
Freedom and Dependence
2002). FREEDOM AND DEPENDENCE: a psychoanalytical contribution to the problem of determination. Angelaki: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 45-62
Promises and Excuses
The aim of this essay is mainly critical: it intends to demonstrate that despite all the promises to give account of a "deconstructive subjectivity," Derrida failed to do so, postponing the moment of positive delivery and providing in the end only excuses. This charge relies on the thesis that Derrida - again, despite his overt declarations - proved unable to rethink critically the concept of narcissism which he himself saw as crucial for the fut…
Tarrying with the Apocalypse
This article is aimed against the recent practice of narrowing the concept of messianism to its “hot” — or, in Kafka’s words, “impatient” — version, today usually associated with the name of Saint Paul (in Jewish, Christian, and post‐secular interpretations). This “impatient messianism”, championed by Taubes, Agamben, Badiou and Žižek (regardless of all differences between them), privileges the situation of apocalyptic anomy in which Law becomes …
A Broken Constellation
This essay analyzes the following constellation of concepts from a theologico-philosophical perspective: “state of exception,” “bare life,” and “the remnant.” Recently employed in the work of Giorgio Agamben, none of these concepts is his own coinage. Agamben borrowed “state of exception” from Carl Schmitt's Political Theology, “bare life” from Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence,” and “the remnant” from biblical sources, which include Isaiah…
Another conversion. Stanisław Brzozowski’s ‘diary’ as an early instance of the post-secular turn to religion
Modernity
This paper aims at delivering a definition of modernity as offered by modern Jewish theology: a theological capturing of the modern era as an epoch possessing its own unique and positive religious characteristics. This positive theological evaluation of modernity seems to derive uniquely from the Jewish perspective which sees in modernitas a hopeful repetition of the narrative of Exodus: the story of liberation and autonomous self-constitution of…
The thanatic strain. Kojève and Rosenzweig as two readers of Hegel
In my essay, I focus on Alexandre Kojève’s lectures on Phenomenology of Spirit as a peculiar thanatic interpretation of Hegel. Kojève’s apology of death is so powerful that it can only suggest a new form of a religious cult, a new philosophical theology which, because of its semi-secular appearance, we should rather call a cryptotheology. I want to demonstrate that, indeed, we deal here with a cryptotheological divinisation of Thanatos where the …
Beyond sovereignty
Although my essay is devoted mostly to Schmitt’s theology of sovereignty as the ultimate theory of power, reflecting the hidden ‘metaphysical image’ of modernity, it also wants to explore a possibility of venturing beyond the theology of power into an alternative theology of promise. By sketching this possible exodus out of the modern power fixation, I first analyse Schmitt’s claim about the persistence of political theology, which provides a rat…
Pamięć, czyli farmakon
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Uśmiech Widma bez Ciała
Esej przedstawia kabalizującą interpretacje pism Derridy, w ktorej centrum staje Lurianski akt cimcum: proces, w ktorym Bog rezygnuje z suwerenności na rzecz świata stworzonego. W akcie cimcum Stworca wycofuje sie z bytu, ktory odtąd rządzi sie swoimi wlasnymi prawami, ale jednak – inaczej niz w radykalnym deizmie – nie znika calkiem: pozostaje jego ślad, wlaśnie w postaci tego pozegnalnego uśmiechu, uśmiechnietego a-dieu. Tylko z pozoru zatem De…
Nowa Humanistyka
Celem tekstu jest krytyczna analiza tak zwanej Nowej Humanistyki. Twierdzę, że pomimo pozorów kontynuacji myśli emacypacyjnej, u jej podstaw nie tkwi filozofia oświecenia, lecz Heidegger ze swoją bezwględną krytyką podmiotowości nowożytnej i jej Machenschaft, czyli kalkulującej postawy wobec świata, z którym nie czuje się ona związana. Brak więzi oznacza tu także brak więzów: rozkiełznany podmiot kalkulującej racjonalności okazuje się źródłem nie…
Love Strong as Death
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Inne testamenty
Bielik-Robson analyses Derrida's poetics and politics of testimony in the light of his frequently used figure of the Marrano or crypto-Jew. Derrida compared the two forms of being a Jewish witness -a survivor or a Marrano -but he provided no detailed account of this distinction. Bielik-Robson fills this gap by showing that to trust a witness and to have faith in the religious sense are closely related
Religion of the Finite Life? Messianicity and the Right to Live in Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminar
Derrida’s The Death Penalty seminar puts capital punishment and the sovereign violence that administers it into the very center of the deconstructive enterprise. My essay emphasizes this connection, by arguing that the positive – messianic – stake of deconstruction is the philosophical defense of the finite life. In order to prove that, I will first focus on Derrida’s notion of life as elaborated in his late writings, most of all “Faith and Knowl…
The Messiah and the Great Architect
This articles criticizes utopian thinking—but not from the conservative perspective, seeing human society as inherently flawed and unable to progress, morally and politically. It opposes utopia in the name of messianic philosophico-theological heritage, often confused with the utopian strain or overshadowed by it. Today, mostly thanks to Derrida and his own philosophical version of “messianicity” derived from Abrahamic religions, though by no mea…
The Marrano God
This article conducts a close reading of Derrida's 1994 essay, "Faith and Knowledge", devoted to the analysis of what Hegel called 'the religion of modern times'. The reference to Hegel's "Glauben und Wissen" is crucial here, since my reading is meant to offer a supplement to Michael Naas' commentary on "Faith and Knowledge", Miracle and Machine, in which Naas states that he is not going to pursue the connection between Derrida and Hegel. It was,…
“The God of Myth Is Not Dead—” Modernity and Its Cryptotheologies
“The God of Myth is Not Dead—” Modernity and its Cryptotheologies
Fenomen maranizmu
21 cm
Marrano Universalism
Like Solomon,I have married and married the speech of strangersCharles Reznikoff, Jerusalem the Golden
The Post-Secular Turn
The aim of this essay is to give a general and accessible overview of the so called "post-secular" turn in the contemporary humanities.The main idea behind it is that it constitutes an answer to the crisis of the secular grand narratives of modernity: the Hegelian narrative of the immanent progress of the Spirit, as well as the enlightenmental narrative of universal emancipation.The post-secularist thinkers come in three variations which this ess…
Other, not Hostile
This essay has two parts. In the first, I focus on the dangers of what Zygmunt Bauman called allosemitism. I draw on recent Polish history and paint a dynamic portrait of diasporic life in contemporary Poland, which has become divided into two opposite and often warring camps: the one convinced that those who claim Jewish descent should embrace »pure Jewish identity,« understood in religious terms, versus the other, which still leans towards assi…
Interrogating Modernity
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