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Following study follows transformation of the philosophical concept of art in the late thought of Friedrich Nietzsche and in the work of Martin Heidegger. The connection between the two authors is established through Heidegger’s lectures on Nietzsche, dating from the second half of the 1930s. The main focus of the study is to interpret the main features of Nietzsche’s concept of art from his notes to the unfinished work Der Wille zur Macht (Will to Power), and to thematize its relation to Heidegger’s thinking of art. The intention of the article was to show in what sense both Nietzsche and Heidegger depart from the aestheticizing approach to art, returning to its preconditions and revealing a deeper problem of the question of art itself.

Conference report: Intersemiotic Translation, Adaptation, Transposition: Saying almost the same thing?

The article presents a report from an interpretative seminar focused on the story of Tristan and Iseult in its various forms, medieval and modern. The authors (a historian and a literary scholar) strove to maintain consistent interdisciplinary approach during the course, not only with respect to the methods of inquiry, but also in teaching. It is shown here that such undertaking is feasible and that the interdisciplinary dialogue between two living persons has a potential to attract and engage even students with no previous experience with medieval textual material. In addition, the course has revealed two broad chains of questions that can stimulate further interdisciplinary exploration — the questions about the process of signification and the questions about matters (especially liquids) and their transmutations.