Volume 81 (2026), 5
Original Articles: Cultural Objects of Experience: A Symbolic Approach
(Original title: Body, Ritual, and Knowledge: A Symbolic Approach to the Experience of Vulnerability in the Rarámuri-pagótuame’s Self-Understanding)
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 588 - 602.Abstract
This article analyzes how the Rarámuri-pagótuame – who constitute the vast majority of the Rarámuri population in Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara but live in extreme geographical dispersion – articulate a symbolic system that transcends technical reductionism. Drawing on Ernst Cassirer’s symbolic forms, it argues that the foundation for symbolic relationships is… Read more
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(Original title: The Knowledge of Divine Fire in the Evangelical Worldview)
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 603 - 617.Abstract
My aim in this paper is to examine, from the perspective of the philosophy of culture, the role that fire plays within the evangelical worldview. My analysis will focus on the sermons of the influential 19th-century preacher Charles Spurgeon. I wish to argue that this material shows that, for evangelicalism, fire is interpreted as an object that allows for direct… Read more
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(Original title: Beyond Representation: Cinema, History, and Forms of Knowledge in Paul Willemen)
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 618 - 631.Abstract
This article examines the epistemological implications of Paul Willemen’s theory of cinema. Against approaches that understand film primarily as a system of representation, Willemen argues that cinema is a historically situated cultural practice in which history presents itself through the material and formal organization of filmic texts. His concepts of indexicality… Read more
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(Original title: “Das Unmögliche zu leisten”: On the Role of Mathematical Cognition in the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms)
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 632 - 645.Abstract
Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms affirms the autonomy and plurality of distinct modes of objectification, yet assigns mathematical cognition a distinctive systematic role. This paper reconstructs his functional conception of mathematics and argues that its privilege lies in the relation it establishes between spontaneity and the given. In pure mathematics,… Read more
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