Czy sens się zgubił?

Abstract

This text is an introduction to the problem discussed in the entire book. At the beginning, a literary diagnosis of contemporaneity has been made, which shows that modern individuals are not capable of discovering or discerning the sense of life or of any of their actions. In the further part, philosophical possibilities for deliberating about sense in its ontological, axiological and praxeological dimensions (not only the “common” — sensual ones that have been examined so far) have been indicated. In the last part, a reference to art has been made, which concerns not only exemplary literary and artistic works analysed in the book, but also the philosophy of creation and the questions that artists ask themselves with regard to the aim and the methods of their activity.