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dc.contributor.authorZając, Marta
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-22T13:52:13Z
dc.date.available2019-11-22T13:52:13Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn2084-574X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/30838
dc.description.abstractIn this article I consider a certain characteristic of our times as a “secular age,” namely, a series of complications in our understanding of transgression. Transgression implies the presence of some rules and laws which can be violated. As long as the rules and laws are perceived as right, as a way of protecting the values which would otherwise perish, transgression appears to be a wrong thing to do, a misdeed, a criminal act. Needless to say, the very conceptual structure makes sense only provided that the distinctions between right and wrong, good and evil, lawful and lawless are not arbitrary, which, in turn, depends on the presence of the concept of truth. In the secular age, though, the concept of truth becomes not only difficult to handle, since it is incompatible with the modern frame of mind, but also assumes some derogatory connotations, up to the point when to insist on the distinction between (truly) right and (truly) wrong is in itself a wrong thing to do. That is the state of contemporary societies which G. K. Chesterton examines in his work Heretics. The effect of Chesterton’s reflections is a new map of right/wrong, good/evil, lawless/lawful permutations. After Chesterton, I comment on the character of a new heretic, one for whom transgression, understood as the attack on buried-for-long orthodoxy, is too easy a thing to do. To illustrate the mentioned changes of perspective, I refer to an exemplary criminal figure of the West, that is, the biblical serpent, and its criticism.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegoen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesText Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture; 9
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.en_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_GB
dc.subjectG. K. Chestertonen_GB
dc.subjectheresyen_GB
dc.subjectorthodoxyen_GB
dc.subjectthe biblical serpenten_GB
dc.subjectsecularizationen_GB
dc.titleHeresy and Orthodoxy Now: The Zigzagging Paths of the Lawfulen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.page.number213-222
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationUniversity of Silesia, Katowice
dc.identifier.eissn2083-2931
dc.contributor.authorBiographicalnoteMarta Zając (D. Litt.) is Associate Professor at the Institute of British Cultures and Literatures, the University of Silesia, Poland. Her publications include the monographs The Feminine of Difference (Peter Lang, 2002) and Przestrzeń kobiety w chrześcijańskiej koncepcji Boga [The Space of the Feminine in the Christian Concept of God] (Katowice, 2013), as well as numerous articles in the field of literary theory, gender studies and theology of culture.en_GB
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dc.contributor.authorEmailmarta.zajac@us.edu.pl
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/2083-2931.09.13


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