Rozprawa z Odysem
Tackling Odyseus. An Essay on the Surplus of Experience

Summary/Abstract: The presented essay is a portrait of the arch-hero of The Odyssey envisioned as the arch-hero of modernity: a hybrid protagonist, flawed, and – just as modernity itself – highly unsatisfactory. The more general backdrop for the thus conceived portrait is a deficit of the actual form of the Western heroic myth and, in particular, its inability to reproduce Western axiology. Odysseus followed the same path as Achilles and, subsequently, Christ, but never reached the same destination. His return to Ithaca (nostos) is just as doubtful, interim, and ambiguous as his glory (kleos).

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