Zagadnienia bio- i psychopolityki w czasach pandemii jako reminiscencje romantycznej gloryfikacji życia

Słowa kluczowe: biopolityka, psychopolityka, romantyzm, pandemia, nagie życie, homo sacer, podmiot osiągnięć

Abstrakt

Panująca pandemia koronawirusa konfrontuje każdego z nas indywidualnie, jak i nasze społeczeństwo z nowymi egzystencjalnymi i teoretyczno-praktycz­nymi wyzwaniami. W poniższym artykule przedstawię spojrzenie na pan­demię z punktu widzenia biopolityki (Michael Foucault, Giorgio Agamben) i psychopolityki (Byung-Chul Han). Refleksje nad biopolityką i psycho­polityką, jak i nad używanymi w nich pojęciami, uświadamiają nam z jed­nej strony kruchość naszego ludzkiego życia, a z drugiej strony skłaniają do szukania historycznych odpowiedników naszego obecnego zmagania się z pandemią. Odpowiednikiem takim będzie dla mnie kultura romantyzmu: przykładowo poświęcone tej tematyce utwory Johanna W. von Goethego, Frie­dricha Schillera, Juliusza Słowackiego, Friedricha von Schellinga. Wycho­dząc od krótkiej charakterystyki okresu romantyzmu, stawiam sobie za cel pokazanie, jak w czasie pandemii na pierwszy plan wysuwają się fundamen­talne pytania zadawane w ramach bio- i psychopolityki – pytania o nas, ludzi, o nasze przetrwanie indywidualne i społeczne.

Biogram autora

Józef Bremer, Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie

Professor, he teaches philosophy of language and logic at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow. His research focuses mainly on the late period in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the phi­losophy of the human person in cognitive sciences. His recently published work includes “an artistic rather than a scientific achievement”: Frege and the poeticality of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, Philosophia (2020), https://doi. org/10.1007/s11406-020-00216-3; Ludwiga Wittgensteina teoria odwzoro­wania. W filozofii, mechanice, muzyce i architekturze (Kraków 2018).

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2021-05-17
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Bremer, J. 2021. Zagadnienia bio- i psychopolityki w czasach pandemii jako reminiscencje romantycznej gloryfikacji życia. Perspektywy Kultury. 32, 1 (maj 2021), 135-154. DOI:https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2021.3201.10.
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