Vita est vigilia. Esej o eschatologii i jej namiastkach
Vita est vigilia. An Essay on Eschatology and Its Substitutes

Summary/Abstract: A reconstruction – and a critique – of modern Western eschatological and futurological sensitivity, with the essay situating associated conceptions of possible knowledge about the future on a scale spanning between four “singular points”: the future conceived as an object of resignation, anticipation, horror, and knowledge sensu stricto. These points, although possessing the nature of ahistorical ideal types, are designated and discussed in the course of an analysis of select – essential – fragments of Western literature, both high (Horatio, St. Paul) and popular (Dick, Asimov).

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