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Literary fiction, in its millennia of development, has developed a separate language, referred to as artistic language, from which representatives of other fields of cultural activity-philosophers in particular-have drawn extensively for centuries. Reflecting on culture without considering the area of interaction and interfacing between fiction and philosophy, that crucial component of culture, would be incomplete, for it omits essential manifestations. Thus the need for systematic research at the borderline between literary studies and philosophical sciences, aimed at a methodological and theoretical broadening of the field of analysis of language and mind precisely from literary and philosophical perspectives. Research conducted where the two fields conjoin, oriented towards developing innovative, useful research tools for both disciplines, corresponds through its inter- and transdisciplinary character to the idea of broadening and transgressing boundaries among the humanities.
About the author
Żaneta Nalewajk, associate professor, comparativist. Editor-in-chief of the quarterly Tekstualia. She works in the Section of Comparative Studies at the Faculty of Polish Philology at the University of Warsaw. Her texts have been translated into English, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Czech, Slovenian, Hungarian, Serbian, and Russian.
Marcin Czardybon is a literary scholar and political scientist. He works at the Department of 20th and 21st Century Literature (Institute of Polish Literature, Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw). He is a member of the Contextual and Literary Studies Workshop of Translation Studies and the Anthropological Problematic Literature Workshop; editor of "Tekstualia. Palimpsesty Literackie Artystyczne Naukowe" and "Tlen Literacki".
Summary
Literary fiction, in its millennia of development, has developed a separate language, referred to as artistic language, from which representatives of other fields of cultural activity—philosophers in particular—have drawn extensively for centuries. Reflecting on culture without considering the area of interaction and interfacing between fiction and philosophy, that crucial component of culture, would be incomplete, for it omits essential manifestations. Thus the need for systematic research at the borderline between literary studies and philosophical sciences, aimed at a methodological and theoretical broadening of the field of analysis of language and mind precisely from literary and philosophical perspectives. Research conducted where the two fields conjoin, oriented towards developing innovative, useful research tools for both disciplines, corresponds through its inter- and transdisciplinary character to the idea of broadening and transgressing boundaries among the humanities.
