There Is No Salvation Outside Poetry? A Few Questions For Zofia Król

Abstract

The text is a discussion of the main theses of Zofia Król’s book Powrót do świata. Dzieje uwagi w filozofii i literaturze XX wieku (Return to the World. The History of Attention in Twentieth Century Philosophy and Literature). The text also formulates several questions addressed to the author, including some about the semantic scope of the metaphors that Król employs and others about the phenomenological contexts not suggested by the author for considerations of the history of attention in 20th-century philosophy and literature.