Wierzyć według Edyty Stein

The author begins with noticing an apparent absence of the problem of faith in the twentieth-century philosophy and its surprising return at the end of this century, notably in Gianni Vattimo’s and Julia Kristeva’s works. By creating a kind of dialogue between Stein’s phenomenology and Kristeva’s psychoanalysis, the author analyses the concept of faith from those two apparently distinct perspectives. In the discussion of Stein’s attitude recalledare her personal experiences as a philosopher along with her claims on faith as a foundation of knowledge of God, supplied by love and acting. From Kristeva’s point of view, far from the former one, the need of faith is a result of specific ‘going beyond oneself’ that is necessary in a process of forming one’s personal identity. While Stein believes in God, Kristeva believes in man

Pierre Cabanis – entre la science du vivant et la science de l’homme

The main goal of the study is to show the novelty of Cabanis’s project. As a scientist, doctor and philosopher, the author of Rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme attempts to find a new science called anthropology, based mostly on physiology. There is also a discussion of how sensations are transformed (“translated”) into signs and ideas. In his dream of progress of human society, Cabanis has to navigate between the organic conception of the human being and vitalism, which can be seen as a critical approach to any scientific reductionism.The main goal of the study is to show the novelty of Cabanis’s project. As a scientist, doctor and philosopher, the author of Rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme attempts to find a new science called anthropology, based mostly on physiology. There is also a discussion of how sensations are transformed (“translated”) into signs and ideas. In his dream of progress of human society, Cabanis has to navigate between the organic conception of the human being and vitalism, which can be seen as a critical approach to any scientific reductionism

Wieczność jako niezgoda: Stein, Levinas, Ricoeuer

SummaryIn this contribution I try to show how E. Stein, E. Levinas and P. Ricoeurexpress their disagreement with Heideggerian conception of being-towards-death and propose their vision of eternity and its experience. The three main images are commented:the death as a discontinuity and condition of a new life, suspension of the time to the resurrection by the other, the intensification of the experience of time.

Dalla condizione terrestre all’ambiente planetario nei Canti di Giacomo Leopardi

This article examines the representation of the environment in the Canti by Giacomo Leopardi. The author seeks to show the Leopardian environment as a place where history, nature and the cosmos intersect. The immensity and simultaneity of these three elements determines the way the lyric subject inhabits the world. Leopardi’s poetic focus is on his painful experience of the environment, which remains an indifferent and destructive agent. The poet deconstructs classical and romantic models of nature and culture by appealing to the aesthetics of the sublime, which unlike Kant is not the means of understanding but the way to experience the planetary character of existence.This article examines the representation of the environment in the Canti by Giacomo Leopardi. The author seeks to show the Leopardian environment as a place where history, nature and the cosmos intersect. The immensity and simultaneity of these three elements determines the way the lyric subject inhabits the world. Leopardi’s poetic focus is on his painful experience of the environment, which remains an indifferent and destructive agent. The poet deconstructs classical and romantic models of nature and culture by appealing to the aesthetics of the sublime, which unlike Kant is not the means of understanding but the way to experience the planetary character of existence

Introduzione

Słowo wstępne redaktora naukowego, przedstawiające tematykę tomu, krótko omawiające zebrane artykuły oraz opowiadające o pracach naukowych, których numer XLI/4 Studia Romanica Posnaniensia jest efektem

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„To Believe” According to Edith Stein

The author begins with noticing an apparent absence of the problem of faith in the twentieth-century philosophy and its surprising return at the end of this century, notably in Gianni Vattimo’s and Julia Kristeva’s works. By creating a kind of dialogue between Stein’s phenomenology and Kristeva’s psychoanalysis, the author analyses the concept of faith from those two apparently distinct perspectives. In the discussion of Stein’s attitude recalledare her personal experiences as a philosopher along with her claims on faith as a foundation of knowledge of God, supplied by love and acting. From Kristeva’s point of view, far from the former one, the need of faith is a result of specific ‘going beyond oneself’ that is necessary in a process of forming one’s personal identity. While Stein believes in God, Kristeva believes in man

The Eternity as a Disagreement: Stein, Lévinas, Ricoeur

SummaryIn this contribution I try to show how E. Stein, E. Levinas and P. Ricoeurexpress their disagreement with Heideggerian conception of being-towards-death and propose their vision of eternity and its experience. The three main images are commented:the death as a discontinuity and condition of a new life, suspension of the time to the resurrection by the other, the intensification of the experience of time.

The Shoah, the Sacrifice, and the Animal in Elisabeth de Fontenay’s Thought

The Shoah, the Sacrifice, and the Animal in Elisabeth de Fontenay’s ThoughtThe article aims at presenting the views of a French philosopher Elisabeth de Fontanay on the issue of proximity between the Shoah and the inhuman, industrial treatment of animals.The author not only explains the history of such a contextualisation of the problem, but also tackles the question of the meaning of a sacrifice, which is a term often used to define both the extermination of the Jews and the mass animal slaughter. Key words: Elisabeth de Fontenay, Shoah, sacrifice, animals, mass slaughte