Culture as Verb

Ryszard Nycz – literary and cultural historian and theorist, Professor of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, editor-in-chief of the bimonthly Teksty Drugie. His works include: Sylwy współczesne (1984, 1996); Tekstowy s´wiat (1993, 2000; Bulgarian translation: 2005; Ukrainian translation: 2007), Je˛zyk modernizmu (1997, 2002, 2013; English translation: 2017); Literatura jako trop rzeczywistos´ci (2001, 2012), Poetyka dos´wiadczenia (2012).

• Author’s Note – Part One – The Humanities of Yesterday and Today: In a Nutshell and Not without Simplifications – New Humanities in Poland: A Few Subjective Observations, Conjectures, and Refutations – Culture as Verb: Probing the Creativity of Cultural Action – The Other is in Us: Identity in the Times of Mobility (A Few Remarks on the Polish Experience) – Part Two – Toward the Innovative Polish Humanities: Text as a Laboratory: Traditions, Hypotheses, Proposals – Jan Błoński: Personal Hermeneutics – Janusz Sławiński: Structuralism in Action – Bruno Schulz: Art as Cultural Extravagance – Bibliography – Index