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2Filozofia, rytuał i performatywność w starożytnej myśli indyjskiej na przykładzie upaniszady Ćhandogia 6.2.4Studia Religiologica 54 (2): 131-146. 2021.Philosophy, ritual and performativity in ancient Indian thought on the example of the Chandogia Upanishad 6.2.4 The paper discusses cosmogony presented by Uddālaka Āruṇi attested in the Chāndogya Upaniṣad (6.1-6), according to which world forms arise by giving them a name. I argue that the experience that motivates the thinking of Uddālaka is ritual, the essence of which is to give people and objects a name, thanks to which their status dramatically changes for the duration of the ritual. An ana…Read more
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8The Secret Language of the Ritual as an Attempt to Define Concepts in Ancient Indian TextsStudia Semiotyczne—English Supplement 25 113-129. 2004.The concept of a secret language dates back to the Indo-European era. Researchers dealing with the reconstruction of Indo-European poetic tradition compared the oldest literary texts and noticed two planes of discourse, which they called ”the language of men” and ”the language of gods.”. The language of men constitutes the lower level — the level of everyday conversation. The language of gods belongs to the sphere of formalised poetic statements. As Cavert Watkins puts it, in the archaic lexis t…Read more
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4On General and Abstract Terms in Archaic Thought – on the Basis of the Rigvedic Term ´Am˙ HasStudia Semiotyczne—English Supplement 27 47-60. 2010.’The actual fragments of the Presocratic thinkers are preserved as quotations in subsequent ancient authors, from Plato in the fourth century B.C. to Simplicius in the sixth century A.D”- reads the introductory note to The Presocratic philosophers. Researchers of the oldest thought of Hindu philosophy are thus in a much better situation. The thought is present in a huge corpus of works collectively referred to as the Veda, and has survived into modern times. The oldest text of Vedic literature, …Read more
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1Fire and Cognition in the RgvedaDom Wydawniczy Elipsa. 2010.In this book I reconstruct the efforts of ancient Indian thinkers to understand the world and themselves as expressed in the Ṛgveda. I analyse how they created a consistent philosophical system and began to formulate abstract ideas. The first issue has led to the reconstruction of the metaphysical theory of which the central concept was Agni, the fire. The second has shown that the Ṛgveda can be regarded as one of the sources of philosophical thinking seen as a universal human endeavour. For thi…Read more
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Fire, Death and Philosophy. A History of Ancient Indian Thinking - reprintMotilal Banarsidass. 2018.
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10Fire, Death and Philosophy: A History of Ancient Indian ThinkingDom Wydawniczy Elipsa. 2016.This monograph is a continuation of the research presented in 'Fire and Cognition in the Ṛgveda' (2010). The sources which I analyze here are: the late hymns of the Ṛgveda, the “philosophical” hymns of the Atharvaveda, cosmogonies of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa and selected parts of the oldest Upaniṣads, composed before the Buddha (Bṛhadāraṇyaka, Chāndogya, Aitareya, Taittirīya and Kauṣītaki). The basic claims of the research are as follows. Firstly, the composers of these texts continue the metaphys…Read more
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18Powstanie pojęć ogólnych i abstrakcyjnych w myśleniu archaicznym - na przykładzie rygwedyjskiego pojęcia áṁhasStudia Semiotyczne 27 81-92. 2010.
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Język tajemny rytuału jako próba definiowania pojęć w starożytnych tekstach indyjskich (brahmany)Studia Semiotyczne 25 213-227. 2004.
Joanna Jurewicz
University of Warsaw
University of South Africa
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University of WarsawRegular Faculty
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University of South AfricaResearcher (Part-time)
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Philosophical Traditions |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Philosophical Traditions |