Philology: The Continuous Will to Understand the Other
Paweł BEM
Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw , 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. (2017). Filologia: nieprzerwana wola zrozumienia innego. Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL, 30(1), 221–232. https://doi.org/10.12887/30-2017-1-117-13
Paweł BEM
Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
