Neža Zajc

The present meditation is a result of an in-depth study of the textual opus and literary expression of two 16th century writers who, despite their different origins, chose Slavic languages as form of their personal expression. Because of this, their terminology offers a basis for understanding of the broader cultural-historical context of their time, i.e. the European Renaissance. The analysis of their lives and work opens new perspectives on the issue of Renaissance humanism and the formation of a new cultural phenomenon, the Early Modern Age. Both authors, Primož Trubar and Maximus the Greek, also wrote in Latin, German, and Greek;...

Anna Siemieniec

(Photos: Piotr Kłosek)The history of 20th century Polish sacred art has been decisively influenced by the work of Prof Jerzy Nowosielski, painter, icon-writer, and theorist, who greatly contributed to the growing interest in the problem of sacrum in modern painting. Inspired by art and spirituality of the Christian East, Nowosielski’s creations filled a void left by a period of pronounced crisis of sacred art in Poland. He re-introduced the icon, which had been present in Poland’s sacred buildings since the Middle Ages and was again discovered in Russia and Western Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, as a revelation, a...

Petar Jevremović

Ob razstavi del Srđana Radojkovića / Inspired by the art exhibition of Srđan Radojković (English translation below)Pretekli advent in precejšnji del božičnega časa so bila v Zavodu sv. Stanislava v Šentvidu (večji formati) in v Finžgarjevi galeriji trnovskega župnišča (manjši formati) razstavljena dela srbskega slikarja in diakona pravoslavne cerkve Srđana Radojkovića. Tekst Petra Jevremovića o ikoni je spremna beseda v katalogu Vzhodno izročilo, ki je izšel ob razstavi (KUD LOGOS, 2011). У самој природи обреда – сваког обреда, самим тим и оног...

Gorazd Kocijančič

Under this somewhat enigmatic title I would like to propose a very general – too general, witout any doubt for some among you (especially if you share Darwin’s aversion “to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought”, Autobiography: 85) – philosophical critique of the very idea of evolution as a concept which brings us in touch with reality. The title indicates scepticism and, at the same time, trust into a possibility of philosophical thematisation of the conditions of our knowledge; I do not intend to translate this scepticism or trust into any known form of phenomenology, hermeneutics or constructivism, but to make these...

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Gorazd Kocijančič