The main aim of the article is to reflect on the features which define Slavic studies as a scientific discipline and to trace how they can, as an autonomous discipline, meet the challenge of developing their own research method. I put forward a the¬sis according to which Slavic studies constitute a kind of research filter whose application (due to its properties and origins, i.e., specialization in the area of Slavic observations) allows for a more accurate study within the space of culture thanks to a more valid (i.e., wider and deeper) recognition of the specific pattern resulting from the presence of Slavs in European history. The article aims to prove that in order for an unobjectionable distinction of Slavic studies as a specialized discipline to emerge, their hermeneutical character must be recognized. Slavic studies as a hermeneutical filter can enter into scientifically fertile and satisfactory correlations with other disciplines and scientific fields, thanks to which they gain a significant extension of their own research procedure.
The main aim of the article is to reflect on the features that define Slavic studies as a scientific discipline and to trace how they can, as an autonomous discipline, meet the challenge of developing their own research method. This article is a continuation of a text published under the same title (in “Zeszyty Łużyckie” No. 55), in which I put forward the thesis that Slavic studies constitute a kind of research filter. In its second part, I consider the principle of the operation of the Slavic filter, taking as a point of reference the use of the concept of filter conceived by the Slovak historian Ľubomír Lipták to describe the cultural locus of Bratislava. Anchored in the cultural imaginarium shaped by the Slavic filter, I show the analysis of the ‘Bratislava’ toponym as a punctum of Slovak culture that would be more difficult to capture and describe in a different research procedure. Consideration of the ways in which the notion of the filter is used in Slavic discourse leads to the conclusion that Slavic studies as a hermeneutics of the filter scientifically have an eminently operational character, which determines their scientific identity and influences their methodological staffage.
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