CRITICALLY ONTOLOGIZING THE NATION: ULADZIMIR KARATKIEVICH’S ZYAMLYA PAD BYELYMI KRYLAMI.
Uladzimir Karatkievich’s long essay Zyamlya pad byelymi krylami (1972/1977) tries to teach its readers about the Belarusian nation. In the following, it shall be posited that this teaching can best be understood as enacting critical ontologization — a mode of developing potential for critical thinki...
| Publicado en: | Topos (18150047) no. 1; pp. 244 - 267 |
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