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HUMAN BEING AND NATURE IN RADICAL TRANSFORMATION, OR WHY WE STILL VISIT DERELICT PARKS IN SILESIA
Aleksandra KUNCE1
Man and Nature – Changing Relations
Język publikacji: angielski
Artykuł w czasopiśmie
Transformacje Nr 3-4 (90-91) 2016, Data publikacji: 20 listopada 2016r.
Słowa kluczowe: border park, undergone transformation, derelict park
Streszczenie The author addresses the problem of the philosophy of the “derelict park”. The reflections are organised around Fazaniec – border park, established in the Upper Silesia in mid-nineteenth century by count Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch. A local human being lives and constructs his or her life off the beaten track, adjusting to the variety of transformative processes going on in nature and culture. The author attends to such a marginal and forlorn landscape formation that has undergone transformation and resembles a necropolis now: a derelict park. The initial questions that she has to discuss facing the spatially extinct phenomenon are the following: first, a pragmatic question: why do we tend to visit derelict parks? Second, an equally utilitarian but more specific question: why do people in Silesia visit derelict parks? Third, a fundamental question: what is the philosophy of the park that has become defunct? Fourth, a pedagogical and existential question: what does the derelict park teach and how does it affect the formation of our being?
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
E-mail: aleksandra.kunce@us.edu.pl