A Gloss on the Methodology of Contributions, or Do We Need All That?

Abstract

The article is a polemic with the postulates of applying non-philological methods, that have their anti-interpretative roots in the philosophy of deconstruction, in studies of Old Polish literature. In the study of literature it is worth taking up the most difficult challenges as well as it is worth talking about such ones – this thesis is illustrated by a reference to Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski's poetical treatise De perfecta poesi (On perfect poetry) coming from the 17^th century, that is treated here as a kind of treatise on the method of writing an epic. Also, it is better for the very researchers to take a position on significant methodological propositions, and not on ones that result from being tired of the subject of the studies or from the naïve willingness to perform experiments with the use of tools supplied by anti-logocentric (and hence – anti-humanist) currents of modern philosophy.