Czym była, czym jest i czym powinna być filologia?
What Was, What Is and What Should Philology Be?

Summary/Abstract: Defining academic disciplines as “existential-institutional practices with a high rate of persuasion and an equallyhigh rate of accidentality”, the author reflects on the universality of the claims of literary disciplines and concludesthat they can only acquire legitimization in the modern world through their development of two basic, albeitundervalued, skills: argumentation and persuasion. Thus, he puts forward the thesis that the turn from logic torhetoric, especially from dialectic to elocution, or from expertise in thinking (about the world) to expertise in thestudy of language (text), has had a disastrous impact on the study of texts. At the same time, he reserves philologyfor fields that have already been developed, primarily textology, while allocating hermeneutics (interpretation)and poetics (analysis) to literary studies, in accordance with the modern division invented by German philologistsin the early 19th century.

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