Niczego nie potrafimy powiedzieć: antropologia apofatyczna?
We Incapable of Saying Anything: Apophatic Anthropology?

Summary/Abstract: Describe something comprehensively with words? As a rule, it suffices to describe to a degree necessary for understanding. God is totally elusive. Infinity is partly so, and the same is even true of natural numbers, premonitions, hopes, and atmosphere. Even if something can be expressed it is still impossible to grasp numerous aspects. This is even the case when we limit ourselves to issues well known to everyone around us and, resumably, experienced by all in the same way or at the very least extremely similarly. My example pertains to one of the most banal forms of our behaviour: saying “good day” to others on a mountain trail. If I am correct, then there unavoidably appears a sui generis ”apophatic anthropology”: we experience man and human issues without differing among each other – if not in reference to all people then at least to an accepted group – but are incapable of describing this.

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