scholarly journals Topos lasu w poezji Bolesława Leśmiana. Natura – człowiek – Bóg

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sławomir Sobieraj

The article presents interpretations of poems by Bolesław Leśmian, where a motif of the forest can be found. Initially, the forest in Leśmian's poetry appears as symbolism of spiritual states: melancholy, longing and sadness, which are the characteristic features of the Young Poland poetry, which was primarily patronized by Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer. Then, in the poems from Orchard, he announces the project of a union of human and nature and a turn towards the original instinctuality, the implementation of which the next volume will bring. Aa essential text is the poem Green Hour. This is the mystery of the existential tragedy of the human who lives on the border between the worlds: nature, human civilization and God. Here we can see the unveiling of the idea of realistic symbolism, which involves the search for mediation between different entities. However, he does not come to it because of the fact that the protagonist of the described events is under the influence of principio individuationis. Only the resignation from this principle - which occurs in the poems of Oak and Desire, and in other works of The Meadow - shows the space of the forest as a place of reconciliation between beings. In the interpretation, it was noticed that Leśmian's cosmogonic concepts were inspired by the philosophical thought of Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson.

Author(s):  
Michael Germana

Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist examines Ralph Ellison’s body of work as an extended and ever-evolving expression of the author’s philosophy of temporality—a philosophy synthesized from the writings of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche that anticipates the work of Gilles Deleuze. Taking the view that time is a multiplicity of dynamic processes, rather than a static container for the events of our lives, and an integral force of becoming, rather than a linear groove in which events take place, Ellison articulates a theory of temporality and social change throughout his corpus that flies in the face of all forms of linear causality and historical determinism. Integral to this theory is Ellison’s observation that the social, cultural, and legal processes constitutive of racial formation are embedded in static temporalities reiterated by historians and sociologists. In other words, Ellison’s critique of US racial history is, at bottom, a matter of time. This book reveals how, in his fiction, criticism, and photography, Ellison reclaims technologies through which static time and linear history are formalized in order to reveal intensities implicit in the present that, if actualized, could help us achieve Nietzsche’s goal of acting un-historically. The result is a wholesale reinterpretation of Ellison’s oeuvre, as well as an extension of Ellison’s ideas about the dynamism of becoming and the open-endedness of the future. It, like Ellison’s texts, affirms the chaos of possibility lurking beneath the patterns of living we mistake for enduring certainties.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 396
Author(s):  
Alice Lagaay ◽  
Susanne Valerie Granzer

Der folgende Text eröffnete die Konferenz „Immanenz in zeitgenössischer Kunst und Philosophie“, die im Mai 2016 in Wien stattfand. Es handelt sich dabei um einen Reader mit Schlüsselaussagen zur Immanenz von Gilles Deleuze, Baruch de Spinoza, Giorgio Agamben, Henri Bergson, Francois Laruelle, Antonin Artaud und Friedrich Nietzsche. Dieser Reader wurde von Arno Böhler und Elisabeth Schäfer zusammengestellt. Susanne Valerie Granzer (S.V.G.) verarbeitete den Inhalt zu einer Kollage und trug Fragmente der Texte zum Beginn der Konferenz vor. Sie wurde dabei gelegentlich von Alice Lagaay (A.L.) unterbrochen, deren Einwürfe dazu dienten, Verbindungslinien zwischen den dichten theoretischen Texten und dem immanenten performativen Kontext zu ziehen, innerhalb dessen sie vorgetragen und aufgenommen wurden – d. h. dem Kontext der Konferenz. Der folgende Text bietet das Vorgetragene sowie die leichtherzigen – durchaus aber auch ernst gemeinten – Kommentare so dar, wie sie zur Aufführung kamen. Die Leser sind eingeladen, sich die Lebendigkeit (live-ness) des Ereignisses vorzustellen und sie nachzuerleben (re-enact), wobei ihre eigenen Kommentare, Fragen und Überlegungen die Lektüre unterbrechen.


Author(s):  
Michael Germana

Chapter 1 locates the origins of Ralph Ellison’s philosophy of temporality in the ideas of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche, and reads Ellison’s debut novel Invisible Man in light of these observations. Anticipating the work of Gilles Deleuze, Ellison places Nietzsche’s concept of eternal recurrence into a Bergsonian context by combining Nietzsche’s arguments about history and immanence with Bergson’s claims about time and its fundamental creativity. The resulting philosophy prefigures Deleuze’s ideas about difference and repetition, or, the complex relationship between becoming and being. Because Invisible Man is the text where Ellison first fully articulates these concepts, this chapter treats the novel as a critical overture to Ellison’s corpus and the temporal and historical themes that recur throughout it. In the process, this chapter challenges long-held misconceptions about Ellison, including his debt to existentialism, his dedication to disorder, his commitment to surrealism, and his status as a modernist author.


Humaniora ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1166
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Indrajaya

This writing is not an inquiry to classical philosophy per se but is an attempt to propose a dialogue. The content of this writing is a dialogue between classic realm of philosophical thought which is represented by Plato and the realm of thought from the end of modernity, which is represented by Friedrich Nietzsche. The proposed dialogue presented through this writing is not for the sake of permeating or exposing the dialogue, also, per se but is contextualized with the recent contemporary condition of academic world in general and design education in university in specific. What this writing tries to show and reflect is, first, a found similarity in Plato’s concept of education on natural born philosopher with Nietzsche’s übermensch. Secondly, there’s a sense of urgency for the features of übermensch within nowadays nihilistic society to arise. Manifested Übermensch is to embrace nihilism within prevailing stubborn condition of comodifying design higher education through formal templatization of creativity. This concern is relevant to Plato’s concept of education: it is not a matter of privatization through commodification, but since it is now, this might prepare a way for übermensch to emerge. Structurally, this writing is divided into three parts. The introduction reflects on contemporary condition of higher education (on design). Second, this article shares writer’s reflection of the similarities between Plato’s concept and Nietzsche’s on education. Lastly, it is to show the potentiality of Platonic approach on education to give birth to übermensch. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-224
Author(s):  
Paweł Wojciechowski

The text Symbolic and philosophical similarities between Jan Kasprowicz’s and Janis Rainis’ poetry presents the figure of Kasprowicz – a great Polish modernist, and Rainis – a Latvian poet and playwright, a man of the theater, author of numerous works for children and a recognized translator of the works of William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Gordon Byron, and Aleksander Pushkin. The analysis is directed toward the lyrical work of the Latvian and the Polish poet, emphasizing its symptomatic symbolism and philosophical influences (Blaise Pascal, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson) present in the phenomena of nature and love.


Author(s):  
Michael Germana

This introductory chapter traces the origins of Ralph Ellison’s philosophy of temporality, and illustrates how Ellison’s synthesis of the ideas of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche precedes, and in many ways prefigures, the work of Gilles Deleuze. It also demonstrates how Ellison’s Bergsonian critique of spatialized time—a coercive form of temporality that subtends progressive history—anticipates contemporary post-Deleuzian elucidations of the reciprocal relationship between temporality and subjectivity. By attuning his readers to intensities implicit in the present, or the dynamism inherent in what Bergson called duration, Ellison affirms the open-endedness of the future while critiquing all forms of determinism. And by treating race as a matter of time, Ellison shows how the feedback loops by which a racist society chaotically reproduces itself can be destabilized by troubling the coercive temporality with which they are linked “on the lower frequencies” of our immanent existence.


2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (86) ◽  
pp. 253-265
Author(s):  
Alessandra Matias Querido

A impressão de que o tempo flui no meio da noite é constante ao lermos O som e a fúria de William Faulkner, principalmente nos dois primeiros capítulos. O primeiro apresenta o ponto de vista de um deficiente mental, Benjy Compson, o qual não tem noção de tempo e narra passado e presente simultaneamente, o que leva o leitor a se sentir no escuro. O segundo apresenta a narrativa do ponto de vista de Quentin Compson, personagem que vive na escuridão do passado em um pessimismo que beira o niilismo. Com base nos conceitos de simultaneidade do filósofo Henri Bergson e de niilismo de Friedrich Nietzsche, discutiremos a questão do tempo para Faulkner.


2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-114
Author(s):  
John Meechan ◽  

In this article, I draw attention to some important points of intersection in the work of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche. In particular I focus on the overlapping nature of their naturalisms. This proves enlightening for an overall appreciation of their respective philosophical projects but also allows those projects to be inscribed within a broader set of naturalistic traditions to which I think they contribute in interesting ways. I begin by assessing how Bergson's and Nietzsche's general problematics are shaped by the antinaturalistic character of their targets, more specifically the appeals to the immobile and the unconditional that they expose in their critical approaches. I move on to examine the core components of their naturalistic responses, highlighting how both thinkers extend introspective insights about the psyche and the body to make claims regarding broader activity patterns across nature and ground these new monistic continua in their concepts of rhythms (Bergson) and drives (Nietzsche). Lastly; I draw out three important consequences on which these moves jointly converge, with particular emphasis on the “quantal” nature of the ontologies they outline. Moving beyond the comparative perspective, I conclude by using these points to situate Bergson and Nietzsche among three different lineages of naturalism: metaphysical antireductionist, and Epicurean.


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