Jak pisać biografie pojęć i myśli? O technikach pracy twórczej
How to Write Biographies of Concepts and Ideas: On the Techniques of Creative Work

Summary/Abstract: This essay follows Mieke Bal’s narrative on travelling concepts stemming from failures in interdisciplinary communication in academic discussion and teaching. Her approach is compared to Polish scientist Antoni B. Dobrowolski’s project of an archive of biographies of creative thought (1927) that aimed to solve specific problems in the Polish educational system. Whereas Bal sheds light on the intersubjective potential of concepts, Dobrowolski aimed to question scholars to get insight into the thickets of thought. Both initiatives for stronger academic introspection are compared and the latter’s failure is examined against its historical background, namely a general tendency of self-optimization, represented by a German collection of autobiographical texts by great scholars edited by Raymund Schmidt and others.

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