TY - JOUR
TI - Self in the laboratory of the humanities
AU - Wolska, Dorota
TI - Self in the laboratory of the humanities
AB - 
	Self in the laboratory of the humanities

	
	From the Culture of the I to the Culture of the Self by Roma Sendyka is an outstanding, innovative review of research into various notions of subjectivity. Sendyka uses the inflected form of the reflexive pronoun self (Pl. siebie) as a literary theoretical category, and selected literary autobiographical essayistic texts as peculiar laboratories in order to investigate its cognitive potential. The author reviews a variety of the concepts of self derived from diverse disciplines and philosophical idioms. She juxtaposes the model of self which is manifestly contingent, episodic and circular (with its ‘centrifugal’ and ‘centripetal’ movement) and the autonomistic, diachronic and narrative model. The perspective of the culture of self reveals rebellious, subversive and so far ‘invisible’ texts, important for the notion of autocreation.
	 
VL - 2016
IS - Issue 1 (27) 2016: Literatura dziecięca - od nowa
PY - 2016
SN - 1897-1962
C1 - 2084-395X
SP - 111
EP - 116
DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.16.007.5361
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/siebie-w-laboratorium-humanistycznym-o-ksiazce-romy-sendyki-od-kultury-ja-do-kultury-siebie
KW - self
KW - I
KW - essay
KW - subjectivity
KW - autopoiesis