The Wanderings of Displaced Memory: Immanence in the Essays of CzesÅaw MiÅosz

Ignas Kalpokas

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Chapter 7 The Wanderings of Displaced Memory: Immanence in the Essays of CzesÅaw MiÅosz

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004311930_009

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Abstract: This chapter explores the phenomenon of displaced memory in the autobiographical essays of CzesÅaw MiÅosz through Spinozaâs conception of immanence. Displaced memory is a remembrance of times and places that are irretrievably lost. It is related to the Spinozaâs logic of immanent causality as it is caused by its own effects. In MiÅoszâs essays, any attempt at personal sense-making is only a temporary occurrence as displaced memory is not fixed or autonomous. A reading from the perspective of immanence sheds light on what happens when there is no traditional mode of interpellation to operate ground or structure the narratives of memory. As a result, displaced memory reveals a novel form of affective capacity. MiÅoszâs essays reveal how survival rests on the relationship between an affective capacity and an immanent production of memory and meaning.

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Literature and the Encounter with Immanence

Series:Â Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 298Â andÂ Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, Volume: 298

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004311930

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 24 May 2017

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
- Philosophy
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  - Aesthetics & Cultural Theory

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