Olga Tokarczuk's Poetic Anthropology: Spheres and Intertexts

由于疫情的持续不利影响和波兰战争难民的新问题，我认为2022年去那里旅行是徒劳的。因此，我需要交换第一年(2022年)和第二年(2023年)的研究课题。这意味着，我在2022年集中研究和分析了小说《普罗瓦兹》及其与H·乔纳斯关于生态伦理的两篇长篇论文(《生命原则》和《责任原则》)之间的互文关系。一次漫长的德国研究之旅让我(按照计划)深入研究了乔纳斯的理论，我可以澄清他的作品和奥尔加·托卡祖克的小说之间的联系。我在理解乔纳斯的生态伦理哲学理论，特别是他相当不透明的新陈代谢概念方面取得了巨大的进步。我还研究了与小说相关的其他哲学家的理论中关于“豁免权”和“共同体”的各种概念(按计划)。除了计划要分析的对象外，我还私下出资进行了第二次实地考察，考察了欧洲和波兰流行的世界图片中的另一种球体概念化，帮助我认识到情绪的球体维度，以及托卡祖克是如何使用它们的。我直接在博士、硕士和学士级别的不同课程上传播我的研究成果。我还在一次会议演讲和一篇论文中展示了我的部分见解，目前正在印刷中。

Because of the continuous adverse influence of the pandemic and of the new problems of war refugees in Poland, I thought it unproductive to travel there in 2022. Therefore, I needed to exchange the research topic of the first year (2022) with that of the second year (2023). This means, I focused in 2022 on research and analysis of the novel “Prowadz” and its intertextual relationship with H. Jonas’ two lengthy theses on ecological ethics (“The Principle of Life” and “The Principle of Responsibility”). A long research trip to Germany allowed me (according to plan) to deeply investigate Jonas’ theory and I could clarify the connections between his works and Olga Tokarczuk's novel. I made enormous progress in the understanding of Jonas’ philosophical theory of ecological ethics and in particular of his quite opaque concept of metabolism. I also investigated various concepts of “immunity" and "community” in the theories of other philosophers (as planned) in relationship with the novel. In addition to the planned objects to be analyzed, a second fieldtrip, I paid privately, on alternative spheric conceptualizations in popular world pictures present in Europe and Poland helped me realize the spheric dimension of emotions and how Tokarczuk is using them. I disseminated my research results partly directly in various classes on Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. levels. I also presented parts of my insights in a conference lecture and in a paper, presently in print.