Duchowe – nowoczesne – naukowe. Wartości w dyskursie krytycznoliterackim Bojana Penewa

Abstract

The article raises the question of understanding and evaluating ideas which should characterise modern literary and scientific work, as documented in the discourse of Bulgarian intellectual elites in the interwar period. The subject of the analysis is literary criticism of Boyan Penev (1887–1927), an eminent literary historian and one of the founding fathers of Bulgarian literary studies, and the notions that are evoked by the key concept of “the spiritual” are at the centre of the reflection. The interpretation is built on the assumptions of postsecular thought, and thus – it takes into account the contextual understanding of the “religious – secular” relation, as well as assumes the existence of crypto-theological entanglements in the process of creating meanings.