Pieśń o Minerwie czyli kilka słów o relacji kultury i nauki
Song of Minerva or a few words about the relationship between culture and science

Summary/Abstract: The starting point for the undertaken discussion is the concept of Hungarian thinker Karl Mannheim who stated that knowledge is conditioned by society. This idea is based on the Marxian dialectics and, from the author of ‘Capital’, it takes over the thesis that the image of the world that we acquire in the process of cognition is distorted by the collective interest, which may be also defined as ‘unconscious will’. Subsequently, we should refer to Max Weber’s concept – as another thinker Mannheim was inspired by – where we are presented with a mechanism in which it is the will that is motivated/works due to the values created and transmitted by culture. Within the frames of this article, the notion of the dependency of knowledge, and cognitive processes on culture will be explained further. Then, the question of the culture crisis and its scientific consequences will be subject to reflection. The punch line of the discussion is to be a thesis stating that the cognitive process that would exclude the extra scientific elements (in the sense of positive sciences) is virtually impossible.

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