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Under the Burden of Enlightenment

Stanisław Brzozowski’s 18th C. Biographies and Diagnoses in the Novel “Sam wśród ludzi” (“Alone among People”)

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article are references to the 18th century in Stanisław Brzozowski’s novel “Sam wśród ludzi” (“Alone among People”). 18th century exponents in the novel are first and foremost the figures of Marcin Ogieński and priest Klemens Rotuła who in various ways struggle, in the face of the social-political changes that took place at the onset of the Age of Reason, with the fall of their ideals. The aim of the argument is a presentation of the references’ functionalities as well as placing them against the background of Brzozowski’s general creative and world view assumptions. In Brzozowski’s reflection, returns to the 18th century provide with opportunities to question for the roots of modernity and for the sources of the (negative) stances contemporary to him. The returns also co-create, which the author of the paper tries to prove, the cultural diagnoses and projects put forward by Brzozowski, as well as support the ethical conceptions.

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