Enchant the World Again. Marguerite Yourcenar and the Return to the Order of Being

Agnieszka Zwarycz-Łazicka

Abstract


This article aims to describe Marguerite Yourcenar’s intellectual attitude within the post constructivist approach to the problem of knowledge. The writer recognizes the need to rethink how we understand the knowledge production process. She is well aware of the implications of epistemocentrism such as postmodern epistemological relativism and the removal  of the ethical dimension of our relationship with all that exists. The author attempts to overcome them in the name of the interdependence of all existences.


Keywords


Marguerite Yourcenar; knowledge; reality; ontology; empathy

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2025.49.1.9-18
Date of publication: 2025-04-01 12:28:29
Date of submission: 2023-11-30 21:03:20


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