%0 Journal Article
%T Discover the (Un)Expected: Writing/Reading Journals as an Act of Exploration
%A Pekaniec, Anna
%J Konteksty Kultury
%V 2021
%R 10.4467/23531991KK.21.006.13536
%N Volume 18 Issue 1
%P 81-93
%K diaries, identity, narration, experience, ethics
%@ 2083-7658
%D 2021
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/znajdz-to-czego-sie-nie-spodziewasz-pisanie-czytanie-dziennikow-jako-poszukiwanie
%X The present paper focuses on several significant issues connected with writing/reading journals. The author discusses journals, treated as an everyday practice based on obligatory narrativization of experience (as defined by Hannah Arendt), within the ethical horizon demarcated by the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur and Charles Taylor and the ideas of David Parker. Parker’s argument of immanent ethical nature of journaling is confronted with autobiographical theories developed by Philippe Lejeune, Małgorzata Czermińska, and Magdalena Marszałek. The discussion is supplemented by the indispensable component of gender. The narrative nature of journals becomes a starting point for changing the perspective used in the analysis of journals – from hermeneutic to constructivist, which also finds its reflection in how the subject is shaped in journal entries.