Jak podjąć to, co inne?

Abstract

The author of the article is looking for cultural epistemological practices in Adam Mickiewicz’s Lausanne lectures. She discusses the problem of tackling otherness and classifying that what is familiar. The author focuses her attention on the concepts of: rootedness, analysis, entirety, scientism, Romanticism, universalism, Eurocentrism, boredom, exploration of the new, travel and creation. The author asks about the role of Europe as a scientific centre, as a world of those who can make a gesture of connection, comparison and universalising. She tries to unravel the interrelationship between “the small Europe” and the monumental Europe, which explores the exotic foreignness as a peculiar contribution to the European need for the saturation with otherness. In the name of oneself.