„Rozmowa z…” filozofem. Z problemów tekstualizacji własnej biografii (Kołakowski – Skarga – Bauman)

The publishing expansion of books that are based on conversations has forced the necessity to broaden the theoretical reflection and to specify their location within “the literature of personal document” in the recent decades. There have been some terminological problems at the starting point of the theoretical-literary attempts of recognition. Recently, there have been appearing such terms as “a conversation with...”, “an interlocutory text” or “a spoken book” as genre description. The separation of the particular variety of ”conversations with…” in the area of such texts seems to be reasonable, because the forerunners of dialogism should be been seen in the convention that dates back to Plato and Socrates. Discourse, dispute and confrontation remain the superior and inalienable feature of philosophical thinking and the structural formula of expression. The names of Kołakowski, Skarga and Bauman are connected with their profession, the membership of a particular intellectual and generational formation, even though they represent varied schools and directions of philosophical exploration. In each of these cases, the consent on the interview and its publication was associated with the awareness of the risk of biographical unveiling, as well as falling outside the native language of philosophical discourse and directing towards “the literary quality”. In the readership reception these books have become the important complement of philosophical content, the enrichment with the personalized perspective.