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    Published : 2025-12-29
    Vol. 73 No. 4 (2025)

    Key Historical Events as a Source of Worldview: Three Examples from Central European Literature

    Maciej Manikowski

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8278-5475

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf25734.4

    Abstract

    The various events we encounter in life have a decisive influence on our view of the world. What is important for understanding the concept of Weltanschauung, both in Dilthey and in others (Hessen, Stein, Kamiński, Scheler) as “seeing the world” or “looking at the world”, is that we are dealing with a specific circle which, together with the hermeneutic circle, essential for understanding, closes our view of the world: the image of the world that we initially have at our disposal (epistemological glasses) allows us to experience the world in which we live and act, and this causes the important or key moments we experience to once again become epistemological glasses, which cause a new image of the world to appear or the existing one to be consolidated, which in turn affects our functioning in it. It is not the case that we approach certain events in history completely objectively or without prejudice, patterns, or stereotypes. We always interpret the world around us and what happens in it through epistemological glasses. This is clearly seen in the examples analyzed from the novels of Sándor Márai, Erich Maria Remarque, and Joseph Roth.

    Keywords:

    worldview, looking at the world, epistemological glasses, Dilthey



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    Manikowski, M. (2025). Key Historical Events as a Source of Worldview: Three Examples from Central European Literature. Roczniki Filozoficzne, 73(4), 51–74. https://doi.org/10.18290/rf25734.4

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