Przeglad Filozoficzno-Literacki (Philosophical/Literary Review)
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In the article published in 'Droga' magazine in 1928, Stanislaw Brzozowski argued that Przybyszewski's book 'Zur Psychologie des Individuums' is the key to understanding his aesthetics and literary works. In his novels and plays, Przybyszewski showed the world in which 'we don't believe in truth anymore' and 'nothing is certain, everything is possible'. Besides, Przybyszewski himself was an oversensitive...
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During the last century, both work and the complex biography of Stanislaw Brzozowski stirred vehement controversy in Polish culture. Recently, though, the opinion spread that this writer's time had passed. According to the author of the following essay, the converse is true. Maybe it is exactly now when we are gaining an opportunity to liberate Brzozowski from the context of the local ideology, which...
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Stanislaw Brzozowski considered Stanislaw Przybyszewski to be an important philosopher who was aware of the crisis European culture reached at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Brzozowski wanted to create a new cultural consciousness, to see humanity as the active power and not the victim of biological or historical circumstances. In 1902, he begun to develop his own philosophy, taking Przybyszewski...
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The works of Stanislaw Brzozowski reflect all modernist doubts about language. Under the influence of the works of such philosophers as Henri Bergson or Friedrich Nietzsche, the author of 'Legenda Mlodej Polski' (The Legend of Young Poland) formulated his own concept of the scientific discourse. The conviction about its untransparency led Brzozowski to abandon the traditional way of writing. Following...
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Brzozowski is a tenacious critic of superstitions of the so-called public opinion. His fate was the hardest possible: to be a party only for himself. Unjustly sunk into oblivion, for the German author is a thinker who focuses on the most significant and still relevant problems of Poland, and helps to understand them.
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Stanislaw Brzozowski and Ernst Jünger's view on world and life as well as intellectual profile of both authors show surprisingly many related points. That relationship arises because their aesthetic concepts and outlook of life were based on intense reading of Nietzsche and Jena romantics. Central category that brings both intellectuals closer together is the figure of a worker developed by Jünger...
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The aim of this paper is to compare Brzozowski and Nietzsche in the context of the criticism of the modern world as well as to try to give a theoretical basis for authentic culture, and especially for authentic cultural creativity. These attempts define philosophical projects of both thinkers and determine the dynamics of their evolution and growing criticism of Nietzsche's thought in Brzozowski.
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The religious thought of Stanislaw Brzozowski changed over time and fell into deep crises. His first crisis was provoked by a contact with Darwinism, when young Brzozowski lost his child's religious faith. At the further stages of his intellectual evolution, he was influenced by Amiel, Durkheim, Nietzsche, socialist thinkers and Polish romanticism. Finally, Brzozowski discovered religious thought...
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Like Romain Rolland, Brzozowski is convinced that any application of scientific methods in ethics leads inevitably to an approval of a principle according to which the ends justify the means, i.e., to moral relativism. However, in social and political life one should not neglect moral values, if we do not want to foredoom our society to unavoidable failure. Both thinkers emphasize the necessity of...
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The essay focuses on relationship between works of Stanislaw Przybyszewski and content as well as aesthetics of the fantastic. At the beginning, author analyses the fragment of transposition of Chopin's music by Przybyszewski, in which there are some allusions to Horla by Guy de Maupassant. The protagonist in Horla is, in Przybyszewski's opinion, the symbol of the secret of artistic creativity and,...
