Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media


ISSN: 2353-8694     eISSN: 2719-4361    OAI    DOI: 10.18276/au.2024.1.22-10
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Issue archive / nr 1 (22) 2024
Crisis and Passio. The Encyclopaedists and the Creation of an Encyclopaedic Work

Authors: Łukasz Wróbel ORCID
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Keywords: encyclopaedism encyclopaedia empirical author zoe catastrophe crisis
Whole issue publication date:2024
Page range:10 (127-136)
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Abstract

In the article I point out that in encyclopaedic works, from the Roman beginnings of encyclopaedic discourse, there are noticeable textual traces that refer to the experiences and affective conditions of their empirical authors, and that the zoe of the empirical encyclopaedist sometimes shines through from behind the bios theoretikos of the encyclopaedic self. Moreover, the author’s decision to create an encyclopaedic work is sometimes caused by a real or discursively assumed catastrophe as its justification.
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