Area and its relations

The author of the present concise article focuses on the Brno conception of area studies consisting in the accentuation of the philological kernel and its transcendence towards social sciences and humanities in the sense of the continuity in relation to the areal conceptions of the past linked to someother close spheres. At the same time, he demonstrates their problematic aspects, i. e. area studies as a notion which is too wide, without more exact limits and the object of the research. It concerns, above all, the spatial relations of the language and literature (Gaston Bachelard, Mircea Eliade, Mikhail Bakhtin) with the stress on sociology and political science, on the problem of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, i. e. the identification of the discipline in the sense of the knowledge of "the craft". It is necessary to avoid the modishness of area studies, rather to relativize them, that is to search for their relations towards other spheres of science, for example, to the visualisation (iconosphere), theory of literary history, to the dialogue of cultures and culture studies. With these the relation to the area as well as the spatial aspect of philologies and social sciences in the framework of area research are connected. Their kernel - as demonstrated above - is the study of the language and literary texts in the framework of the Brno philological-area studies in which language and literature represent not only the starting point and the means, but also the final goal in the sense of the so-called interpoeticity, i. e. the mutual permeation of the extrinsic (are al, spatial) and the intrinsic (poetological) even Wellek and Ďurišin were not successful in.