Issue editor: Robert Pawlik
At the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries symbols became key to describing the reality in which we live: tools for understanding the worlds created by humans themselves. Different and often unrelated theories of the symbol were created on the grounds of semiotics, linguistics, or poetics, as well as in philosophy, culture theory, and sociology. In this volume, we highlight a few important moments in one of these traditions, which leads from Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Ernst Cassirer, and Aby Warburg to Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology.
The volume is supplemented by polemics with the authors of texts from the sixth issue of State of Affairs. Mikołaj Pawlak responds to Tomasz Warczok and Tomasz Zarycki, and Maria Lewicka discusses Michał Bilewicz and Michał Olechowski’s article in which they diagnose the political and worldview entanglements of Polish sociology and psychology.