Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2021
Abstract
The letters from isolation were written in the first half of 2021 when all schools were closed due to the Covid pandemic, and classes were held chiefly online, with no face-to-face contact with students. Ladislav Benyovszky attempted to maintain the mutual proximity necessary for conveying philosophical thought through personal letters.
The epistolary form of communication maintains proximity and invites a response that is not contaminated by public sharing. In the thirteen letters, the aim is to make the addressee's mind, hitherto unaffected by philosophy, gradually receptive to it...