The identity of the poet and the mystic. Contribution to research into the poetic imagination of Juliusz Słowacki
The identity of the poet and the mystic. Contribution to research into the poetic imagination of Juliusz Słowacki

Summary/Abstract: The topic of the paper is the poetical reaction of Juliusz Słowacki to crisis of the culture in the early forties of the nineteenth century. Epiphanic awareness of the theological dimension of the space has been confronted with conviction about the disintegration of language, which has lost the ability to give the appearance of reality. Słowacki expressed confidence that source of his mystical vision of the universe is ideal perception. Therefore, description of the mystical worldview requires the new concept art, the project of original model of the poetic language with the symbolic imagination in the foreground. Interpretation of the genesic philosophy cannot rely on human experience – cannot be expressed in adequate and direct performances. In discussed issue discursive language is not suitable, because of the loosening of categories traditionally used to describe reality. Thus, Słowacki was forced to appeal to the ambiguous signs, which would allow understanding sense of revelation.

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