{"id":4708,"date":"2024-08-07T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:45:36","slug":"saturn-and-eros-joy-as-a-form-of-self-knowledge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/?p=4708&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Saturn and Eros. Joy as a Form of Self-knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"kc-elm kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-929544 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/?cat=3618&amp;lang=en\">Jakub Momro<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>(Uniwersytet Jagiello\u0144ski)<br \/>E-mail: jakub.momro[at]uj.edu.pl<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2479-0599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ORCID<\/a>: 0000-0003-2479-0599<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.31261\/FLPI.2024.08.01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOI<\/a>: 10.31261\/FLPI.2024.08.01<br \/>\u201eFabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica\u201d 2024, nr 2(8).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.us.edu.pl\/index.php\/flit\/article\/view\/17493\/13607\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Download the article<\/strong><\/a><br \/><strong><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.us.edu.pl\/index.php\/flit\/issue\/view\/1429\/1362\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Download all issue<\/a><br \/><\/strong><strong>The article is available&nbsp;<a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/?p=4445&amp;page=2\">in Polish<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The text attempts to show joy in the modern dialectic of knowledge and reification. Both components of this dialectic lead deeper into current problems with the legitimization of science. Melancholic knowledge, personified by such figures as Walter Benjamin or Theodor W. Adorno, is an extension of this primary tension in the instrumentalization of joy as an autarkic affect on the one hand, and a nominalist utopia and fetishism of immediacy on the other. In the article, \u201cmelancholic knowledge\u201d is accompanied by two other types of joy: Kant\u2019s ethics of the heart and Nietzsche\u2019s \u201cjoyful knowledge\u201d, both seemingly phenomenological, reaching the edge of joy as a condition of possibility or impossibility of life and knowledge. In this way, one can understand the tension that truly radicalizes joyful modernity \u2013 stretched between Saturn and Eros, between cognitive theory criticism and fairy tale.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The text attempts to show joy in the modern dialectic of knowledge and reification. Both components of this dialectic lead deeper into current problems with the legitimization of science. Melancholic knowledge, personified by such figures as Walter Benjamin or Theodor W. Adorno, is an extension of this primary tension in the instrumentalization of joy as an autarkic affect on the one hand, and a nominalist utopia and fetishism of immediacy on the other. In the article, \u201cmelancholic knowledge\u201d is accompanied by two other types of joy: Kant\u2019s ethics of the heart and Nietzsche\u2019s \u201cjoyful knowledge\u201d, both seemingly phenomenological, reaching the edge of joy as a condition of possibility or impossibility of life and knowledge. In this way, one can understand the tension that truly radicalizes joyful modernity \u2013 stretched between Saturn and Eros, between cognitive theory criticism and fairy tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[528,3618,3547,3419],"tags":[3606,3612,3582,3594,3588,3600],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-and-studies","category-jakub-momro-en","category-nr-2-8-2024-en","category-the-anatomy-of-joy","tag-critical-theory","tag-fairy-tale","tag-joy","tag-joyful-knowledge","tag-melancholic-knowledge","tag-reification","clearfix"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4711,"href":"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fabrica.us.edu.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}