„SACRUM” WOBEC „DUCHOWEGO”. POJĘCIOWE PUŁAPKI I WARIANTY WZAJEMNYCH ODNIESIEŃ
SACRUM VS SPIRITUAL. SEMANTIC TRAPS AND VARIATIONS OF THE MUTUAL RELATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the present paper includes a reflection on the terminology used by the researchers of spiritual and/or sacred dimension and its consequences concerning the loss of the semantic delimitation between these two notions. To add the evident cultural transformation, embracing literature, as well. The grade of methodological difficulties and those of interpretation grows. Thus, from one hand we have to deal with vague notions with which to depict the literary reality in the aspect of its involved spiritual meaning and generating the sacred area; on the other hand we are concerned with essential changes which take place in contemporary literature. Collision of these both facts carries a researcher into the situation he feels just helpless. Imperfect tools he has been used so far prove to be incompatible with new texts. Therefore, it seems indispensable, in the realm of literature, to be precise in the usage of such ideas as "sacrum" in its metaphysical and spiritual meaning and find new analytical tools in order to go deep into the strata of the newest literature. To apply such tools could be helpful in catching direction and character dominant up to the last decade of the XX century, its axiological, philosophical, aesthetic paradigm extant in literary texts. The way that the scale of problem is presented qualifies the mental core of considerations dealing with theoretical as well as methodological subjects. In the conclusion the postulate which is formed demands a verification based upon the concrete literary works.

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