Pochwała powierzchni – na przełęczy myślenia ekstremalnego
Praise of the Surface – Along the Pass of Extreme Thought

Summary/Abstract: The point of departure of this article is a hypothesis about the current exhaustion of the explanatory force of metaphors and imagination connected with transcendence (height) or profundity, and a proposal of replacing it with an exemplary image of surface and tangency. An argument in favour of altering this key image is a changed image of the world, the result of the development of science and technology – in particular the media – while its goal is to comprehend human strivings disclosed in culture, the pursuit of extreme experiences, so popular in the West. Broadly speaking, a desire for extreme experiences appears to be symptomatic for the reorientation of the spirit of the West at the peak of its achieved prosperity and can be interpreted as a new manner of expressing the wish for salvation.

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