Muzyka i łzy. Ćwiczenie hermeneutyczne
Music and Tears. A Hermeneutic Approach

Summary/Abstract: Notes by Charles Darwin contain the surprising sentence: Crying is a puzzler. Why did the famous biologist discern a puzzle in tears? Why did he suggest unambiguously that evolutionistic rhetoric is incapable of explaining the process of crying? The author of this article is interested in the reason why tears appear in our experiencing of the world well as in their significance. Yet another issue seems to be even more important from an anthropological viewpoint: do tears deserve to be regarded as a reliable instrument of cognition? Common sense tells us that a tear masks perception. On the other hand, in certain situations tears break through to the other side of the visible, and the world perceived through their prism (including “the world next to us”) discloses previously unforeknown strata.

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