About the book: 2012 / This short text is nothing more than fragmentary notes, without any claim to “cover” an incomprehensible topic. In addition, the author is not a Byzantine scholar, and his rights to speak on Byzantine topics are generally questionable. However, even those individual aspects of the phenomenon of Byzantium, with which my studies in philosophy and anthropology confronted me, gave rise to a curious, specific impression, which I will try to convey: the impression that this phenomenon is extremely relevant for us today, but at the same time - ambivalent, so its relevance is ambiguous, it simultaneously feeds different, almost opposite tendencies of modern domestic reality. Source: Library of the Institute of Energy Anthropology"