The article is a phenomenological approach to the phenomenon of nothing nessexperienced at the intersection of the spheres of religion and politics, on the example of Adam Mickiewicz's messianism. The essence of messianism of Polish poetis a metaphor as Poland as the Christ of nations understood not as literary fiction, but a real relationship between the Polish people and Christ, the relationship that its fulfilled in the establishing by Poland nation millenaristic realm of everlasting freedom. In messianism of polish poet one can capture two form through which nothingness reveals. The first one is forgetfulness of divine revelation penetrating the political sphere and exclusion from communion with God that constitute the realm of politics as a sphere of anti-divine, demonic. A second form is cleansing and separating force of nothingness in relation to the realm of sin, the power of nothingness, which appears as essential part of sanctification of Polish nation. Nothingness linked to religious-political sphere appears as anambivalent phenomenon, both negative and positive in its power.
The article interprets Tischner's religious thinking as the so-called phenomenological turn in theology (which constitutes a moment of the theological turn in phenomenology). I make an attempt to critically analyze the conditions for the possibility of religious thinking - I analyze a priori of subjectivity, of the second/other and of the world, and then I point to "places" where Tischner's research instead of sticking to phenomena, with how of their givenness, inserts them into the metaphysical field.
In the article I apply the theory of conceptual metaphors conceived by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, as well as conceptual blending theory proposed by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, to an analysis and interpretation of Józef Tischner’s metaphor of drama. I argue that from the perspective of metaphor theory, the philosophy of drama, and existence understood in categories of drama, is an amalgam constituted, among other things, by the input space DRAMA AS LITERARY GENRE. I pay special attention to the metaphor of God as it is expressed within the tension between the input space DRAMA AS LITERATY GENRE and the amalgam space of PHILOSOPHY OF DRAMA.
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