A Scenario of Meandering. On Peripheries and Practicing Eclectism. Aleksander Woźny, Scenariusze kultury w mediach i medycynie narracyjnej, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2020, ss. 219.

The paper reflects on an academic practice of applying interdisciplinary and progressive humanistic discourse to the analysis that is only marking its critical and revisory character. The example considered in detail is Aleksander Woźny’s book Scenariusze kultury w mediach i medycynie narracyjnej [Culture Scenarios in Media and Narrative Medicine]. The tendency to overtheorize about general cultural mechanism of explaining experience (i.e. culture scenario), appearing in the book, as well as the tendency to instrumentally use the idea to advocate peripheries in the humanities, are being recognized and commented on. The review also pays a close attention to narrative medicine and its application in Woźny’s analysis in order to indicate some discursive appropriations.

The paper reflects on an academic practice of applying interdisciplinary and progressive humanistic discourse to the analysis that is only marking its critical and revisory character. The example considered in detail is Aleksander Woźny’s book Scenariusze kultury w mediach i medycynie narracyjnej [Culture Scenarios in Media and Narrative Medicine]. The tendency to overtheorize about general cultural mechanism of explaining experience (i.e. culture scenario), appearing in the book, as well as the tendency to instrumentally use the idea to advocate peripheries in the humanities, are being recognized and commented on. The review also pays a close attention to narrative medicine and its application in Woźny’s analysis in order to indicate some discursive appropriations.