Background
Kalaga, Wojciech Henryk was born on July 27, 1949 in Cracow, Poland. Son of Henryk and Longina Kalaga.
(Nebulae of Discourse takes its inspiration from Peirce's ...)
Nebulae of Discourse takes its inspiration from Peirce's philosophy, but merges its horizon with that of current critical theory, as well as confronts certain issues posed by post-Heideggerian hermeneutics. Its principal themes include the nebular nature of texts and of human subjectivity, questions of textual boundaries and limits, and interpretation construed as an ontological category. The book proposes a methodology which explores terrain feared by hermeneutics, but at the same time advocates a need for methodological rigour defied by deconstructive trends in post-structuralism. Unlike hermeneutics, this methodology recognizes the fact that there is no non-discursive reality; unlike deconstruction, it refuses to rely on the innocence of praxis without theory. The conditions of possibility of contemporary discourse themselves require conditions of possibility: an infrastructure of discursive mechanisms, of signs and semioses that allow specific practices to take place and to be meaningful. It is this fundamental, rudimentary infrastructure that constitutes the book's main focus.
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Kalaga, Wojciech Henryk was born on July 27, 1949 in Cracow, Poland. Son of Henryk and Longina Kalaga.
Master of Arts, Jagellonian University Cracow, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, Jagellonian University Cracow, 1979. Habilitation, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 1986.
Dozent, associate professor University Silesia, Katowice, Poland, 1987-1994. Chair of comparative literature Murdoch (Australia) University, 1992-1994. Professor University Silesia, Katowice, since 1995, head department literature theory, since 1998.
Fulbright visiting professor Yale University, New Haven, 1983-1984. Visiting professor University Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1987. Deputy director Institute English, Katowice, 1981-1984.
Head department literature theory and English literature, Katowice, 1984-1989. Research manager Murdoch University, 1993-1994. Director Institute British and American Culture and Literature, Katowice, since 1995.
(Nebulae of Discourse takes its inspiration from Peirce's ...)
Member International Association for Semiotic Studies, Charles S. Peirce Society, Polskie Towarzystwo Semiotyczne, International Comparative Literature Association.
Married Lucyna Malik, August 28, 1974. Children: Tomasz, Maciej.