Filologia: problemy definicyjne (od Baudouina do de Mana)
Philology: Definitional Problems (from Baudouin to de Man)

Author(s): Łukasz Żurek
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: philology; Wincenty Lutosławski; Jan Baudouin de Courtenay; Jan Bołoz Antoniewicz; history of Polish humanities
Summary/Abstract: The author presents a brief history of the reception of philology in post-war Americaand describes the Anglo-Saxon trend of the “return to philology,” which began in the1990s. The author argues that modern attempts to redefine philology often copy the traditional historiographical narrative, in which material is subordinated (selected andorganized) to metaphors of “development,” “decline,” “fall” or “end.” As a result of suchan approach, scholars overlook the context of different philological traditions and heterogenous utterances concerning philology, diverging from the canonized narrative. Following these remarks, the author proposes an alternative model of writing (about) the history ofphilology, whose key aspect is placing different definitions of philology and philological practices in the precise cultural milieu of time and space.

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