Akulturacja? Czy inny wektor współczesności? Kilka słów o refleksji Czesława Miłosza
Acculturation? Or another vector of modernity? Reflections on the thoughts of Czesław Miłosz

Summary/Abstract: While Max Scheler’s acculturation problematic is once more topical, under the betterknown term “globalisation” (in the sense of westernisation), there are vectors in ourculture that appear to run counter to this unifying trend. In our article, we examine oneof Czesław Miłosz’s poetic intuitions that is today “embodied” in the writings of FrançoisCheng, the Chinese-born French poet and thinker. In his essays on beauty, we analysethe swinging back and forth between poetry, thought and painting; we also examine themeeting of Eastern (Buddhist and Taoist) and Western (Christian) thought; a meetingthat Cheng and Miłosz particularly perceived in the pantings of Cézanne and which,while constituting a link between these two traditions, would, according to them, alsomake up for the greatest western weakness, i.e. Cartesianism.

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