No 3 (50) 2017 - Polish Philosophy and literature

Issue 3 (50) 2017 of Tekstualia is devoted to the subject of “Polish Philosophy and literature.” Even though it is difficult to determine whether it is justifiable to speak of Polish philosophy (it is questionable whether any field of knowledge has a specifically national character), from a historical standpoint the arrival of national philosophies (German, French, English or Polish) at the turn of the XIX century is an undeniable fact. The history of Polish philosophy (or philosophy in Poland) in today’s humanistic consciousness is a well-identified field of critical reflection. In the newest issue of Tekstualia we survey the texts of writers who in many different ways participated in a dialogue with Polish philosophy – either creating philosophical views (Stanisław Lem, Witold Gombrowicz, Stanisław Przybyszewski and Bolesław Miciński) or drawing upon the output of Polish philosophers (Cyprian Norwid, August Cieszkowski, Bolesław Leśmian and Władysław Strzemiński). In our cogitations, we also include the works of philosophers inspired by Polish literature (Marian Zdziechowski, Julian Ochorowicz or Stanisław Brzozowski).

 

Editors: Karol Samsel i Katarzyna Górzyńska-Herbich

 

Articles' Summary:

• Karol Samsel, Cyprian Norwid and August Cieszkowski’s Historiosophical Project
• Zbigniew Jazienicki, The Trace of Political Theology in Stanisław Lem’s Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
• Katarzyna Mazur-Lejman, The Robots’ Ethics in Stanisław Lem’s Fables for Robots
• Artur Jocz, Stanisław Przybyszewski’s and Tadeusz Miciński’s Literary-Philosophical Discovery of the Infernal Nature of the Internal World
• Anna Bielecka-Mateja, Theatre in the Mirror of Philosophy: Polish Stage Adaptations of Witold Gombrowicz
• Andrzej Wawrzynowicz, The Epistemological Context for the Ideas of Polish Messianism as Viewed by Stanisław Brzozowski
• Jakub Pyda, Marian Zdziechowski as a Reader of Zygmunt Krasiński’s Writing. On Philosophical Complications of Reception History
• Daria Chibner, “Giving the Colors of Senses to Concepts”: The Method of a Poet’s Work as Presented by Julian Ochorowicz
• Magda Nabiałek, The Art of Perspective: Strzemiński and Leśmian