Planned topics

We wish to tackle the subject of various forms of verbalizing philosophical ideas. Additionally, we want to determine the consequences of making particular choices in this matter and how the expressed content clashes with the form of expression. We will focus specifically on all instances of originality and transgression in this realm, especially in terms of style. That means devoting inquiry to such philosophical utterances which are situated somewhat at a crossroads of various discourses: the literary, philosophical (i.e. a philosophical cautionary tale, a treatise, an essay, manifesto, utopia, meditation or aphorism). We will take a look at the dialogic tradition and such forms of philosophizing normally associated with literary practices (drama, novel, story, poem, fairytale) and practical literary genres (sermon, letter, divination etc.). To recognize and define these occurrences we will be reaching into the body of work of such philosophers such as the pre-Socratics, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Voltaire, Plato, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stanisław Brzozowski, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Wasilij Rozanow, Alain Badiou, Martin Heidegger, Leszek Kołakowski, Georges Bataille, Antonin Artaud and many others since the list of thinkers who handle literary forms is quite long. What is the significance of these forms for their philosophy? And what is the significance of literature for philosophy? These are some of the questions the answers for which we would like to seek in this upcoming issue of Tekstualia.