Zeszyty Naukowe Centrum Badań im. Edyty Stein
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Samotność jako mistyczna ciemność. Św. Jan od Krzyża i bł. Matka Teresa z Kalkuty
Get PDFThe “dark night” – painful feeling being abandoned by God – was experienced by many masters of spiritual life, by saint John of Cross as well as by blessed Mother Teresa, as is shown in her memoirs. Authoress claims that, paradoxically, this apparently declining experience is just a stage that has to be passed in order to achieve fullness of mystic insight and spiritual growth. Doubts, grief, lack of power and will – all this feelings are not the symptoms of spiritual collapse but a steps on a way into holiness. The God is the one who gives the power to overcome typically human weaknesses andcrises (solitude, isolation, adversities)
W poszukiwaniu sensu śmierci dziecka. Z perspektywy chrześcijańskiej
Get PDFDeath is an unusual mystery and the death of a child is an especially unusual mystery. Such death violates the natural chronology of events as it makes someone completely innocent and defenseless pass away and deeply affects family relationships. This article does not have the ambition to unravel the great mystery of human existence, but it only attempts to deal with some of its aspects at the philosophical and theological level. It points out that there is no simple relationship between the death of a child anda moral life, especially that of parents’. To look for such a relationship as a justifi cation of a child’s death would be unfair. When it comes to relationships with God, on the one hand, the death of a child may cause parents to remove God from their lives and even to deny His existence; on the other hand, an attempt to accept the death of a child may be understood as a sacrifi ce offered to God. Such death becomes a privileged space for experiencing the profound effects of God’s grace and mercy, and it brings about a deeply human attitude, first, to a dying child, and then to those who have been left with a void after their child’s death. In this way, it deepens interpersonal relationships
Rozpacz jako życie w śmierci w myśli Sørena Kierkegaarda
Get PDFThe author of this article outlines the background of the origins of The Sickness Unto Death and its main theme: despair. Consequently, he presents despair as built upon Kierkegaard’s concept of the human self. Despair characterizes the condition of the human self. Moreover, it depicts the process of disintegration of the human self and reflects the condition of a bourgeois mentality in society. The essay presents despair as the spiritual death of a single individual both for him/herself and for society, which results in the subsequent disintegration of society. Despair is a sickness that produces a life which is unfulfilled, inadequate and untrue as well as devoid of spirituality, intimacy and reflection.
„Oścień śmierci” według Edyty Stein
Get PDFEdith Stein’s ideas about an experience of death are reconstructed by using the parallel method, i.e. in comparison with the ideas of K. Jaspers, P. Ricoeur and U. Eco. The adoption of this method allows one to explore Edith Stein’s both philosophical and existential radicalism or to systematize philosophers’ convictions concerning a limit-experience, i.e. death. The experience of the Mystery of the Cross, which is equivalent to the experience of death, appears in E. Stein’s texts as the philosophers’ stone related to human experience. However, the verbalization of this experience as the “science of the Cross” and a “holy science” is at the same time the highest form of human knowledge
Odmiany śmierci i umierania w prozie Ignacego Karpowicza
Get PDFThis article presents mortality as a topic of Ignacy Karpowicz’s texts. Karpowicz multiplies the possible ways of understanding mortality (both at the formal and textual level). The analysis of the theme of mortality in Ignacy Karpowicz’s works is connected with reflection on topics such as routine or repeatability. The author is also interested in the status of reality. The main aim of the article is to analyze the ways in which Ignacy Karpowicz uses different categories which are ambivalent and connectedwith both mortality and life
Hermeneutyka umierania
Get PDFAccording to narrative theories (both in literary criticism and in philosophicalor psychological applications of the concept of narrative) the end of a story or lifestory, i.e. its closure, is an essential part of life which provides coherence and meaning toit as a whole. Since human life ends with death, it is important to consider the means ofapproaching this signifi cant dividing line from the point of view of a living person. Whilereading the works of French “thanatologists” (e.g. Louis-Vincent Thomas or Vladimir Jankélévitch)as well as the works of Martin Heidegger, Michel de Certeau, Zygmunt Baumanor Giorgio Agamben, the author tries to answer the question: How can dying be understoodand included, by anticipation, into one’s life story in order to complement it
Ruiny architektury sakralnej. Śmierć miejsca - śmierć sacrum?
Get PDFThe main topic of the article is sacred, but abandoned, derelict and forgotten places. The author pays particular attention to the issue of an ontological status of a sacred ruin as a non-place and the issue of the disappearing sacredness which once defi ned abandoned architecture. A ruin is designated a non-place as a result of a phenomenological definition of a place as a point in space with a particular identity. The author tries to answer the question of whether sacral architecture can still function as a place after it has been abandoned and is no longer present in the experience of ordinary people
"Zamień moją żałobę w taniec". O narracji filmowej Wima Wendersa
No full textPina, a fi lm (2011) directed by Wim Wenders, falls outside any simple genre classifi cation. It may be treated as a documentary only, but it can also be regarded as an artistic fi lm because it talks about artists – dancers from the Tanztheater in Wuppertal (Germany) and their choreographies. Wenders uses artistic means of expression in the montage of scenes and particular takes. A three-dimensional technique allows him to enter the world of dance and show its beauty as well as the physicality of dancers. Wenders ncludes four Pina Bausch’s choreographies in the fi lm: Frühlingsopfer, Café Müller, Kontakthof,and Vollmond. The main themes of the fi lm are death, loss and loneliness, which also appear in all Pina Bausch’s choreographies. Work on the fi lm was a kind of “going through mourning”, both for the director and the dancers
"Rytuały rodzinne\u27. Wobec śmierci w filmie
Get PDFIn the article Family rituals in the face of death the author analyzes fi lms from the perspective of the experience of a family confronted with death. The author is interestedin what family rituals are still used at this time and what actions have been abandoned.The presented fi lms demonstrate fascination with the topic of death, which is present in every culture with different intensity, by means of various descriptions which are attractivebecause they are fi lled with the richness of symbols. The majority of these films emphasize a shift in the discourse about death in social space towards an individual subject. The author wanted to observe and show the moment when the community experience of death and mourning was given up and the ritual passed into the hands of specialized institutions