Podmiot mówiący Miłosza jako medium pamięci o totalitaryzmach
Miłosz’s Speaking Persona as a Medium of Memory of Totalitarianisms

Summary/Abstract: The paper shows Miłosz’s speaking persona as a medium of memory of totalitarianisms. It displays the religious and ontological premises for historical memory. What is indicated in Miłosz’s philosophy of memory are motives for keeping for future generations the evidence, and among this evidence there is a conviction that totalitarianisms can come back to life if the reasons for their reign are natural. Memory can prevent this reign from returning if it serves human existence which is well established ontically. The conscious existence of identity, which is guaranteed by memory, does not expose a man to the thirst for ideological faith. This existence does not surrender to modern nihilism which enables to forget people and things. A man indifferent to memory does not call for protecting their shape and colour. He lets them fall. Among the conditions enumerated by C. Miłosz which need to be met by a preserving memory there is a discussion on its relation with Transcendence. What is shown is his conviction that a memory protecting from the feeling of void and absurd of existence makes it impossible for new ideological beliefs, which legitimize discharges of hatred to the world, to spread. The paper features Miłosz as a depositary of the memory of private, social, historical and metahistorical life. The author of the paper proves that Miłosz’s philosophy of memory is motivated by the will to search for a remedy for new ideological beliefs.

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