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Rozumienie jako powracanie do bycia autentycznego. Martin Heidegger i literatura
Understanding as Returning to Authentic Being. Martin Heidegger and Literature

Author(s): Michał Januszkiewicz
Subject(s): Education, Psychology, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: identity; self; authenticity; being-in-the-world; hermeneutics

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt of hermeneutic reflection on understanding as being-in-the-world, which is recognized as looking for an identity. The identity, on the one hand, will be comprehended as an everyday task and, on the other hand, as a kind of irremovable tension between returning and escaping from oneself. The problem of the self will be interpreted in the context of Charles Taylor's ethics of authenticity with particular emphasis placed on Martin Heidegger's hermeneutics.

  • Issue Year: 2/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 70-80
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish