In the process of implementing their anthropological project, that is creating a new, perfect human being, the Bolsheviks sought inspiration from modern science and psychology, especially Freudian psychoanalysis, which was ...

The author investigates the medieval vision of sainthood. Against the background of ordinary human beings, the saint is perceived as not only morally superior to his brethren, but also radically different from them: a real ...

António Vieira, a seventeenth-century Portuguese Jesuit, heterodox thinker persecuted by the Inquisition, and missionary working in the Brazilian province of Maranhão, stands comparison with Giorgio Agamben as a reader of ...

The author examines anthropological issues in Miron Białoszewski’s Wiwisekcja. Her reflections on the play’s vision of the new man are grounded in the theoretical issues introduced into humanistic discourse by Ernst Cassirer ...