The anti-Positivist turn: comple(men)ted

• Authors: Szahaj A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The history of humanities is abundant with numerous turns (anti-Positivist, linguistic, interpretative ones), each of which set for itself the task of showing that humanities differ from natural sciences, being a project that refers to a separate sphere of reality, driven by a method of its own. The same happens with an ethical turn which we are witnessing today. This turn, commenced by the reader-response criticism and neopragmatism, has made us aware that we are judging beings, axiologically interested, and that a purely contemplative attitude toward the world is not part of our equipment. This means that we are switching into a science perceived as a cognitive activity which is ethically, or even politically, involved and which primarily aims at fulfilling our ideals of a 'decent life' and 'decent society'

Keywords

EN

ANTI-POSITIVISM; CONSTRUCTIVISM; ETHICAL TURN; NEOPRAGMATISM

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 1/2(103/4)
• Pages: 157-164
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szahaj A.

• A. Szahaj, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Podmurna 74, 87-100 Torun, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02615384