Abstract:

Home is a concept that accompanies man at all times and in each historical epoch. It is of paramount importance not only in Europe but in all cultures’ spiritual and material heritage. ‘It determines the circle of elementary experiences of every human being and is at the very centre of the generally recognized system of values ​​– alongside such concepts as mother, family […] and homeland – with which it is connected by a network of semantic dependencies’ (Bartmiński 2006: 167). Home is one of the concepts acquired and assimilated through ‘experiencing the world’.