THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE NOT-QUITE-SUFFICIENT: ON ALICJA KUCZYŃSKA'S PATH THROUGH AESTHETICS
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE NOT-QUITE-SUFFICIENT: ON ALICJA KUCZYŃSKA'S PATH THROUGH AESTHETICS

Summary/Abstract: The article explicates the main fields of hermeneutic research activity of AlicjaKuczyńska in which Neoplatonic inspirations, Renaissance models of life, and thevalues and traditional paradigms for understanding aesthetic categories that are dominantwithin them—such as image, creation, fiction, and mimesis—are viewed againstthe background of the phenomena, transformations, and problems that are unique to ourown times, thereby providing old frameworks with new forms of philosophical relevance.Kuczyńska’s research topics, i.e. beauty, love, the anthropological dimension ofcreativity, the role of imagination, and deification of creative personality gain revisedinterpretations, in which the accent is placed on creative activity and its value-creatingdimension consisting in the transcendence of everyday reality. Characteristic of herresearch attitude is the tendency to consider philosophy and art in the context of transcendingthe finite dimension of being and undertaking anew and in different ways theeffort to reach what is infinite, unconditioned, lost, truly existent in the Platonic sense.Kuczyńska’s research of this tendency takes on the dimension of positive valorisation ofthe state of “being in between” and exploration of artistic figures of “ascending.”

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