„The Betrayal Method”. Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s Struggle with the Specter of Science

The article discusses the reluctance of some Polish representatives of the humanities towards the dictatorship of the Reason that underlies the scientifi c paradigm. The work of Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, especially from the later period, is used as an example of such an attitude. A renowned poet, essayist, and scholar of Polish Romanticism, Rymkiewicz presents a suggestive anti-rationalist diatribe in his discursively heterogeneous works, situated on the verge of an essay, an academic dissertation, and fi ction. The main goal of the article is to reconstruct this diatribe (inspired by the specifi c Rymkiewicz’s reading of Heidegger’s philosophy) the elements of remain scattered among numerous books by Rymkiewicz.