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Czujność, czułość
Vigilance, tenderness

Author(s): Jerzy Franczak
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Julian Kornhauser; Polish poetry after 1945; New Wave generation; aisthesis

Summary/Abstract: The paper is an attempt to interpret a poem by Julian Kornhauser, usually read as a manifesto of the new poetry rejecting social obligations, so important for the so-called New Wave generation. This interpretation aims to highlight hidden contradictions between the critique of the propagandist manipulation and the need to describe the personal experience. Kornhauser makes here a turn towards aesthetics as aisthesis, understood in its original meaning by Baumgarten and rediscovered in modern philosophy (for example by Mike Dufrenne), and opens up his poem to the sensible world.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 69-79
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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