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Book SynopsisMartin Jay is one of America's leading intellectual historians. His work spans almost all important questions concerning the subject of modernity. Outstanding Polish scholars engage in a dialogue with Jay’s work, discussing significant problems of modernity and postmodernity. The book offers a broad panorama of contemporary thought approached from various angles. It is also a unique exercise of intercultural intellectual dialogue covering many areas from literature to politics. The book also includes an essay on photography by Martin Jay and his detailed response to the other contributors, which has the character of an extended conversation with them. The book can serve as an assessment of the uptake of Jay’s ideas, and equally well as a general introduction to the genealogy of modernity and postmodernity.
Table of ContentsDorota Koczanowicz and Leszek Koczanowicz: Introduction: Mysterious Power of Intellectual History Martin Jay: Photography and the Event Dorota Wolska: Regaining Experience? Piotr Dehnel: Deconstruction and Hermeneutics. On the Controversy between Jacques Derrida and Hans˗Georg Gadamer Dorota Koczanowicz: The Beautiful Art of Cooking Teresa Bruś: Exposing Experience and Facing Photography Piotr Jakub Fereński: Photography as a Means of Re-presenting the Past. Caring for Memories Ewa Ignaczak: Abject Spaces, Pre-Modern Time and Baroque Scopic Regime in Andrzej Stasiuk’s Travel Essays Roma Sendyka: Scopic Regimes and Modernity: Hypotyposis Paweł Dybel: Modernity versus Postmodernity. Various Aspects of the Problem of Periodization Leszek Koczanowicz: Dialogue, Activity, and Mendacity Martin Jay: Continuing the Dialogue About the Editors and Contributors Index
