Philology: The Continuous Will to Understand the Other
Paweł BEM
Center for Philological Studies and Scholarly Editing, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland , PolandAbstract
The article addresses the scholarly aim of philological investigations and their social function. The author considers the critical evaluation of worldwide philological practice, questioning some paradigms of thinking about philology and promoting its definition as an effort to understand the other by accepting and respecting the uniqueness of text.
The article is part of the research project entitled “Redefining Philology” (Contract No. 0031/NPRH2/H11/81/2012).
Keywords:
philology, scholarly editing, textual criticism, new philologyBEM, P. (2020). Filologia: nieprzerwana wola zrozumienia innego. Ethos. Quarterly of The John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin, 30(1 (117). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/ethos/article/view/5222
Paweł BEM
Center for Philological Studies and Scholarly Editing, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland
Center for Philological Studies and Scholarly Editing, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland
