Charyzmatyczna odnowa humanistyki
Charismatic Renewal of the Humanities

Author(s): Jan Potkański
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: affect; memory; post-secularism; community; New Humanities
Summary/Abstract: The article reconstructs the “New Humanities”, animated by Ryszard Nycz, as a quasi-cultformation. It is argued that the formation applies in practice the principles of post-secularism, openly declared by some of its members, in particular Agata Bielik-Robson and Adam Lipszyc. It is thus a “congregation” in the sense proposed by Hegelian philosophyof religion. The synthesis of studies on memory and affects, characteristic of the New Humanities, refers, in this perspective, to the synthesis of the doctrinal imagery (myth) and the emotionally experienced cult, as described by Hegel. The second, more speculative part of the article seeks to redefine the concepts of heresy, atheism, science and law in the context of the “orthodoxy” of the New Humanities.

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