„Przestrzeń jest pewną całością znaczeń, a nie bytów materialnych […]. Tak rozumiana przestrzeń jest jednością łączącą w sobie podstawę i przepaść” – pisze w kontekście poglądu Martina Heideggera na temat możliwości ujmowania ...

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 ...

Contemporary political and social movements opposed to global capitalism are reminiscent of the 1960s, a period of worldwide political, cultural, and social protests. This chapter studies the countercultural attitudes and ...

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 ...

Taking the concept of human nature as a starting point, the author discusses the problem of the so-called New Man. He shows that the relation: “human nature – civilization” is dialectical in character. The first part of ...

This chapter focuses on the process of the creation of a “new mythology” of the first French settlers of Québec in Fréchette’s epic nineteenth-century poem. Composed in the poetic style of his time, the poem successively ...