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|Chapter1.TheOtherMethodologyoftheOther
urgesAmericans,especiallytheAmericanleft,nottodisdainpatriotismas
avalue.”72Tisisareferencetonationalismratherthanpatriotism,whichis
adistinctphenomenon;Rorty’s1998workAchievingOurCountry73isacase
inpoint.InRorty’swork,apostmodernprotestagainstgrandnarratives
turnsintoanabsolutizationofthegrandnationalnarrative,74theopposite
ofthehumanismNussbaumposits.
MariaJanionisanoutstandinghistorianofPolishliteratureandculture.
Havingnoticedthelimitationsofstructuralismasearlyasin1958,75Maria
Janionwarnedin1970,attheheightofthetrend,thatHstructuralapriorism
seestheworldasasetofself-regulatingsystems.Here,thestructuregoverns,
ratherthanisgovernedby,theindividual.”76InJanion’sphilosophy,thesub-
jectandtheexperienceremaincentral.Withthequestion:HWillyouknow
whatyouexperienced?”whichsheposesinthetitleofher1995book,Janion
returnstothecategoryofexperienceinthetimesofpostmodernism,atrend
which,inheropinionHquestionedthenotionoflthehermeneuticpersonality.”
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Openinguptoothersbestowsanethicaldimensiononhumanism.Maria
Janionbeginswiththeexperienceoftext,includingtheclassicaltextsofthe
humanities.Ourreadingsarepluralist,Midrash-like,intertextual,open;it
providesthebasisforextendingtheinnerspaceofthesubject.Movingaway
fromtheclosedmodeloftheself-samesubject,theypointtowardsasub-
jectiveplurality-in-unitywhilenotabandoningthenotionofthesubjectin
apoststructuralistfashion.Janioncombineshumanismasself-reflectionwith
72
MarthaC.Nussbaum,JoshuaCohen(ed.),ForLoveofCountry:DebatingtheLimitsofPatriotism
(Boston:BeaconPress,1996),4.
73
RichardRorty,AchievingOurCountry(Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress,1998).
74
TerryEagletonnotescertainreservationstowardsegalitarianisminRorty’sconceptoftheironist,
noting:Hthebeliefthataminorityoftheoristsmonopolizeascientificallygroundedknowledgeof
howsocietyis,whiletherestofusblunderaroundinsomefogoffalseconsciousness[ł]Anovel
versionofthiselitismhasarisenintheworkofthephilosopherRichardRorty,inwhoseideal
societytheintellectualswillbelironists’,practicingasuitablycavalier,laid-backattitude,while
themasses,forwhomsuchself-ironizingmightprovetoosubversiveaweapon,willcontinue
tosalutetheflagandtakelifeseriously”.TerryEagleton,Ideology(London:Verso,1992),12.
75
MariaJanion,HMarksizmwobecgenetyzmuistrukturalizmuwbadaniachliterackich,referat
wygłoszonynaZjeździePolonistówwroku1958”,inProblemyteoriiliteratury,Series1(Wro-
cław:Ossolineum,1987),385-414.
76
MariaJanion,Humanistyka:poznanieiterapia(Warszawa:PaństwowyInstytutWydawniczy,
1974),97.
77
SeeMariaJanion,Czybędzieszwiedział,coprzeżyłeś(Warszawa:Sic!,1996),MariaJanion,
MariaŻmigrodzka,Odysejawychowania.Goetheańskawizjaczłowiekaw“Latachnaukiilatach
wędrówkiWilhelmaMeistra”(Kraków:Aureus,1998).
