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Report on a conference “The Literary Culture of Russian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian Emigrations in the 20th Century: The Contexts, the Reception, the Aesthetics,” KUL, Lublin, 13-15 Oct. 2011.
Besides his many philosophical and religious works, Dietrich von Hildebrand also wrote over sixty essays in the 1930’s against German Nazism. While these were deeply rooted in his philosophical and religious work, they were addressed to a wide German audience and written in Vienna with a view to preventing the Abstracts 446 annexation of Austria to the German Reich. Taken all together they form a...
The article focuses on the so-far uknown documents concerning Józef Wittlin which are stored in the Museum of Literature in Warsaw. Among them, are the notebooks Wittlin kept for over forty years. Their significance results from the fact that they provide a valuable commentary on his life and work, as well as shed light on his opinions on issues such as the social and political situation in Poland...
The article begins with a review of various possible and already functioning interpretations of Karol Wojtyła’s work The Jeweler’s Shop: A Meditation on the Sacrament of Matrimony Passing on Occasion into a Drama, in order to introduce a new, both anthropological and mystical reading of the work, with the commentary, however, upon the use of the notion of mysticism, as well as in the light of the...
The main theme of the article is the linkages between Hanna Malewska’s biography and her works. The linkages in question are examined with recourse to the French tradition of the research of autobiography, in particular to the notion of autobiographical space developed by Philippe Lejeune. Yet the focus of the present considerations is the concept of the experience of the archives which the author...
In the essay, the author has included a textological analysis of the numerous notes Fr. Prof. Tadeusz Styczeń, the late editor-in-chief of Ethos, made in his copy of Cyprian Norwid’s Vade-mecum throughout the years of his repeated reading of that volume. The notes in question became subsequently the basis for the ideas Styczeń put forward and developed in his articles on moral philosophy. Styczeń...
Listening offers a possible solution to the perceived ethical problems of the possessive «I» and its appropriative gaze. In English literature, one genre often associated with the appropriative gaze is the so-called «loco-descriptive poem» of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. I argue, however, that in the major loco-descriptive poems of James Thomson and William Wordsworth an aesthetic of observation...
Review of Antoni Szwed’s Rozum wobec chrześcijańskiego Objawienia. Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard [“Human Reason Facing the Christian Revelation: Kant,Hegel, Kierkegaard”], Wydawnictwo Marek Derewiecki, Kęty 2011.
Among the essential problems concerning the interpretation of the thought of Aristotle is determining the relation which obtains between the theory ofrhetoric he advanced and the concept of practical philosophy expounded in his works on ethics. While Aristotle describes rhetoric as an element of ethical insight within the realm of politics, he does not develop this subject in any of the writings that are...
The article focuses on some chosen axiological issues characteristic of homilies. The problems in question are considered from the philological point of view and with reference to a transdisciplinary perspective due to the status of the object of research. In homilies, which are considered by the believers as the Word of God present in the human word, the axiological horizon is outlined precisely...
Review of Cezary Lipiński’s Poeta poetów. Studia nad polską duchowością religijną na przykładzie recepcji Angelusa Silesiusa [“The Poet of Poets. A Study of Polish Religious Spirituality, as seen on the Example of the Reception of Angelus Silesius”], Oficyna Wydawnicza Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego, Zielona Góra 2011.
The article focuses on the iconography of Piotr Skarga, Jesuit preacher who lived at the turn of the the 17th century, the author of the Lives of the Saints, numerous sermons as well as Counter-Reformation writings, and it includes a survey of texts published after his death up till the 1850’s. Skarga, who immediately after his death in 1612 was considered an unexampled religious person, a paragon...
Review of Angelo Scola’s Doświadczenie człowieka. U źródeł nauczania Jana Pawła II, [“The Experience of Man: At the Sources of the Teaching of John Paul II”], trans. P. Mikulska, Instytut Jana Pawła II KUL, Lublin 2010.
In the article, the category of the “culture of gesture and word” is implemented in order to show how words accompanied by specific gestures played an important role in the pastoral activity of Karol Wojtyla, and later Pope John Paul II. In the case of the late Pope one may even speak about a hermeneutics of gesture. While drawing on certain classical theses of metaphysical anthropology, the author...
In the current article I briefly outline the apophatic standpoint in its approach towards the Absolute and the Unconditional. I subsequently point that the standpoint in question, while denying that there exists a distance between the Absolute and a religious human being, on the one hand seems to assumesome kind of experience of the Unconditional, but on the other hand questions its very possibility...
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