Kultura - panteon czy zbiorowy grób?
Culture - Pantheon or Mass Grave?

Summary/Abstract: High modernism attempted to replace religious faith and its promise of the resurrection of the body, with the religion of culturalism and its promise to immortalise our individual biographies through texts and works of art. Once we realized that this promise would not be fulfilled, that we would be forgotten, and our works and texts would disappear amidst a flood of other works and texts, we turned with hatred against the religion of culturalism and its false promises, just as the Bolsheviks turned against ‘revealed religion’. Except instead of burning churches and killing priests, many of us – even those who once sought fulfilment in culture, members of the ‘Polish intelligentsia’– turned to politics, the media, and money, in search of earthly fulfilment.

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