TY - JOUR TI - Discover the (Un)Expected: Writing/Reading Journals as an Act of Exploration AU - Pekaniec, Anna TI - Discover the (Un)Expected: Writing/Reading Journals as an Act of Exploration AB - 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. VL - 2021 IS - Volume 18 Issue 1 PY - 2021 SN - 2083-7658 C1 - 2353-1991 SP - 81 EP - 93 DO - 10.4467/23531991KK.21.006.13536 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/znajdz-to-czego-sie-nie-spodziewasz-pisanie-czytanie-dziennikow-jako-poszukiwanie KW - diaries KW - identity KW - narration KW - experience KW - ethics