431. Tolerance in Utopian DiscourseMonika Brzóstowicz-Klajn, 2022, izvirni znanstveni članek Povzetek: In this article, the problem of tolerance is discussed with regard to some of the most important utopias in the European tradition, namely by Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, and Francis Bacon. This allows us to show these works from the point of view of hidden paradoxes. Utopian discource, on the one hand, creates models of static, unchangeable, more or less homogeneous societies that remain separated from the world. On the other hand, tolerance means an attitude of openness towards diversity and, thus, towards dialogue as well as the possibility of change. Nevertheless, tolerance within utopias appeares under certain conditions. The article attempts to show how it is captured in particular utopian works and what additional meanings it reveals. The problem of tolerance can be a criterium for criticizing the utopian projects. This is the case with the twentieth-century concept of an open society by Karl Popper and with critical statements about it made by Leszek Kołakowski and Ryszard Legutko.
Ključne besede: tolerance, utopian discourse, open society, absolute ethics
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432. The Interweaving of Life and Text : Authorial Inscription and Readerly Self-Understanding Exemplified in Les Fleurs du malJulio Jensen, 2022, izvirni znanstveni članek Povzetek: The present article attempts to make explicit the existential dimension of a canonical literary text: Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil. This work is chosen because it transmits a series of disturbing existential assertions; that is, it is used, in the present context, to investigate Gadamer’s thesis of the reader achieving a new self-understanding through the text. By taking both the author’s as well as the reader’s positions into account in the interpretation, the intention is furthermore to explore the dialogical situation that Gadamer highlights in the understanding process. In order to achieve this, focus is put on the notion of subjectivity in the context of Romanticism and Kierkegaard’s existential philosophy. The contribution is structured as follows: first, an overview is provided with respect to the development of the notion of subjectivity from Kant to Kierkegaard. After this, the existential aspects of Les Fleurs du mal are analyzed.
Ključne besede: hermeneutics, literature and philosophy, author, Gadamer, Baudelaire
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433. Between In-Vocation and Pro-Vocation : A Hermeneutics of the Poetic PrayerMałgorzata Hołda, 2022, izvirni znanstveni članek Povzetek: This article investigates the phenomenon of poetic prayer as one that happens in the liminal space between the in-vocation of a close relationship with God and the provocation of versatile responses to God’s presence. The hermeneutic in-between of an experience of God—intimate, ecstatic, and absolutizing, but also unsettling, doubting, and desperate—engenders a genuine possibility to investigate the less obvious aspects of poetry as prayer, and to delve deeper into its complexities and subtleties. The analyzed poems by G. M. Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, and R. M. Rilke disclose the inner world of a human being who yearns for God, but also has the courage to question and listen to an inner voice that torments and tears asunder. A hermeneutic reading of poetry as prayer invites us to acknowledge that an authentic and close relationship with God goes beyond an equivocal and facile response and entails what is sidelined, destabilizing, or even threatening to the safe self. The hermeneutic examination of poetic prayer also inspires us to think of the human body as a legitimate and meaningful site of the encounter between the human and the divine.
Ključne besede: hermeneutics, poetic prayer, G. M. Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, R. M. Rilke
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434. Quests and Questioning or Again and AgainRamsey Eric Ramsey, 2022, izvirni znanstveni članek Povzetek: This piece makes a claim for the transformative power of hermeneutics by seeing in the tradition places of undischarged Utopian potential, which are often found in a close hermeneutic engagement with poetry. All such readings, it is argued, ought to meet the four watchwords of any contemporary interpretation viz., that such readings be non-orthodox, non-nostalgic, non-rejectionist, and non-apocalyptic. Such a reading is attempted of Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again” against the backdrop of an interpretation of insights from Gianni Vattimo. All this is meant to be evidence as well of the dire necessity of the Humanities.
Ključne besede: tradition, poetry, non-orthodox, non-nostalgic, non-rejectionist, nonapocalyptic, utopian, hermeneutics, transformation, humanities
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435. Mood as Interpretive Category : Experience as a Form of UnderstandingBeata Przymuszała, 2022, izvirni znanstveni članek Povzetek: The article discusses the functioning of the notion of mood in various fields (philosophy, psychology, architecture, literary studies). In this context, the mood becomes a way of experiencing oneself in the world (referring primarily to Martin Heidegger’s concept). To be in a mood means—to be in the world, to experience the world, to try to understand it. To be in a mood is to feel your body and your mind in the world. The mood captured in this way allows a different reading of selected poems by Halina Poświatowska—the sensuality of this poetry can be understood as a phenomenological record of experiencing oneself in the world.
Ključne besede: mood, understanding, world, Martin Heidegger, Halina Poświatowska
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437. Personambiguity in Kobo Abe’s The Face of Another and the Abyssal Surface of ResponsibilitySimeon Theojaya, 2022, izvirni znanstveni članek Povzetek: Numerous studies across disciplines discuss the complex relationship between human facial features and personal identity in psychosocial dynamics. Most of these researches follow the common definition of the face as the forepart of the head. Kobo Abe’s The Face of Another (Tanin no kao) is a Japanese novel that explores the face’s complexity in great depth and contests this common notion of the face. First, this novel shows that the search for meaning behind the face’s physical properties is lacerated by discords of individuality/abstraction and identity/pretense. These straining pairs (which I call personambiguity) exemplify Lévinas’s point that the face’s meaning outweighs its phenomenality. Second, this novel presents that the constraint and primacy of responsibility transcend the face’s sensible qualities. My reading holds that the face is an abyssal surface, in which the other manifests itself against our appropriative idea of otherness and summons us to irrecusable responsibility.
Ključne besede: Abe, ethics, face, Lévinas, phenomenology
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438. Hermeneutics within the Temporal Horizon : The Problem of Time in Narrative FictionSazan Kryeziu, 2022, izvirni znanstveni članek Povzetek: The paper discusses the problem of time as one of the most fundamental aspects of narrative fiction. If a narrative is defined as a series of events moving in a sequential relation, then time is a matter of linearity. The chronological progression becomes the standard pattern for time and narrative alike. But if a narrative is defined instead according to the relationship between the sequence of events in a story and the representation of those events to be told—between story and discourse—, then time becomes a more complex hermeneutic and phenomenological framework. Within this framework, I take a brief glance at the accounts of the relationship between time and narrative by attempting to elucidate the complex dimension of narrative temporality. My thesis assumes that if narrative time is meaningful to the extent that it becomes a condition of temporal experience (Ricoeur), then this synthesizing activity is a temporal process, which reveals the paradox of human time.
Ključne besede: narrative temporality, human time, hermeneutics, phenomenology, structuralism
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439. Genuine Hermeneutics in the Canon of LiteratureNysret Krasniqi, 2022, izvirni znanstveni članek Povzetek: Within this article, we discuss the author’s influential relationship with the literary text and the role of literary critic in the tendencies to replace the first. By dealing, first, with the romantic spirit, then with the progressive concept of modernity, and, finally, with the denying concepts of post-modernity, we argue for the idea that the literary discourse includes the author as a normative and intentional principle to preserve the memory and knowledge, which literature offers to us. The tendency of the author’s denial has resulted in a tendency to deny the tradition, literary canon, and has caused the absurdity of an excess in the necessary methodological apparatus, an excess, which has led to the diminishing of the reading of literature, fading of its social status, and harming the utilitarian recognition of authors who form the dignity and identity of Western culture. We attempt to explain that canonical literary texts should be recognized through posterior criticism, their placing in historical time, and their reflections on our own time, in which they obtain new meanings, while preserving the stabilized meanings of iconic authors.
Ključne besede: philosophy of literature, hermeneutics, tradition, timeless present, canon, utilitarian ethics
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440. Poetry and the Challenge of Understanding : Towards a Deconstructive HermeneuticsPatryk Szaj, 2022, izvirni znanstveni članek Povzetek: The first part of the paper is the author’s contribution to the hermeneutics–deconstruction debate on the status of the literary work and the role of the reader. The author’s considerations head towards a conception of “deconstructive hermeneutics of poetry,” stating that the literary text both requires understanding and guards itself against the violence of its uniformization. The second part of the paper involves deconstructive-hermeneutic interpretations of the works of three Polish poets: Aleksander Wat, Tadeusz Różewicz, and Krystyna Miłobędzka. The author notices their “touching acuteness,” i.e., their refusal of an all-encompassing reading. More important, however, is the way all the poets cultivate their own “deconstructive hermeneutics” of existence. In Wat’s case, it is a hermeneutics of the suffering body. Różewicz is approached from the side of the problem of “the death of poetry.” Miłobędzka turns out to be a poetess who delivers her idea of “releasement.”
Ključne besede: hermeneutics, deconstruction, poetry, Aleksander Wat, Tadeusz Różewicz, Krystyna Miłobędzka
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