Focus and Scope

Errgo is a periodical focusing primarily upon the reflection upon the products of contemporary culture, including popular culture, with particular emphasis on critcal theory and related problems. The areas of central importance to the journal include the analysis of phenomena impacting the shape and functioning of culture, the study of literary works, film, works of fine art and other products of culture, the insights into literary and cultural processes and factors conditioning their development, analyses of context determining such processes, as well as reflection upon the methodology of literary and cultural studies, analyses of tendencies manifest in the culture of today and their intellectual foundations, transformations of theoretical and methodological paradigms, studies in ethical and axiological frames within which literary and cultural currents and phenomena related thereto are located, literary-theoretical and culture studies oriented syntheses, as well as studies focusing upon the mutual relations between literature and philosophy as well as other disciplines within humanities and beyond. While Er(r)go puts particular emphasis on literary theoretical investigations, the important focus of the journal is upon the perceptions of the literary texts in relation to con/texts and pancultural processes. The mission of the journal is to bridge the areas traditionally covered by literary-critical and literary-theoretical periodicals and those profiled towards culture studies, and thereby to open a wide space of dialog in which these two broad disciplines can meet. The overall tenor of the journal should be described as interdisciplinary.

The Readership

Representatives of international academic humanities, arts and letters: academics, researchers, Ph.D. candidates, students, and - above all - specialists in literary and cultural theory, comparative studies, sociology, anthropology and philosophy (especially those focusing upon its affinities with other disciplines within literary studies, social sciences and humanites), and a wide group of researchers involved in interdisciplinary studies, as well as non-academic readers to whom matters discussed on the pages of Er(r)go are of importance. 

Sections

The main sections of the journal are: "Studies and Essays" (dedicated to problems specified above) and "Varia - Follow-ups - Anticipations" (presenting texts thematically linked to the research areas upon which previous issues focused, or to which future issues will be dedicated, as well as texts of particular value, albeit unrelated to the overarching theme of the volume). These two central sections featuring in each issue are then supplemented by optional sections, constructed dynamically to reinforce the character of each particular, thematically oriented, issue. These supplementary sections are: "Commentaries and debates," containing discussions and texts polemically responding to stances presented by other authors within or outside the issue, as well as "Reviews," critical "Notes on books," and "Translations" (usually presenting one or more texts written originally in a language other than Polish or English, and made available to the Polish or Anglophone academic audience in translation).