Komparatystyka: dwoistość metody i synkretyzm praktyki
Comparative Studies: Duality of the Method and Syncretism of Practice

Author(s): Lidia Wiśniewska
Subject(s): Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: comparative studies; cognitive views; myth and paradigms; multidimensional impression of reality;
Summary/Abstract: The voice in a comparative panel on Comparative Studies: Duality of the Method and Syncretism of Practice proposes a thesis that our cognition dominated by two different cognitive views of both non-sacral and sacral character (a myth of Nature associated with a circular paradigm and a myth of God connected with a linear paradigm) indicates one-sidedness when only one paradigm is taken into account and only one specific version of basic time and space categories is referred to. It means the cognition is fragmentary and it is impossible to draw conclusions from its negative dimension. This is exemplified by the concept of identity and subjectivity depicted by Charles Tylor (conforming to modernism, the Enlightenment and also to Judeo-Christianity) as well as by Nietzsche’s “selfness” (fitting in postmodernism, Romanticism and also Roman and Greek antiquity). As a consequence of presenting the issue in this way it is necessary to improve the ability to grasp strong and weak points of each view and to interpret literary texts as regards ways and types of combining the points in order to receive a multidimensional impression of reality.

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