Stanisław Baczyński: "Propozycje. Nowa kultura – nowa cywilizacja"
Stanisław Baczyński: "Proposals. New Culture – New Civilisation"

Contributor(s): Anna Szawerna-Dyrszka (Editor)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: archive; typescript; Europe; 20th century; civilization; culture
Summary/Abstract: The typescript of Stanisław Baczyński's unfinished dissertation has been found in the writer's archive stored in the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw. The work, diagnosing the state of European civilization and culture after the First World War, was created in the second half of the 1920s. In the text, the author not only referred polemically to contemporary ideologies (fascism, communism, nationalism, but also Christianity) and the historiosophical concepts prophesying the end of culture (Spengler, Berdyaev), but he also formulated his own optimistic project of a "new", "revalued" European culture. The typescript found is not a complete text. The edition, combining the principles of traditional and genetic editing, captures the character of the work in the process of writing, unclosed and non-definitive. Detailed rules of editorial conduct, as well as the history and characteristics of the typescript, are presented in the Introduction. The Appendix to the edition contains fragments of the work, found in the monthly magazine "Europa", that are missing from the typescript. In order to bring the reader closer to the character of Baczyński's work on the printout prepared earlier, also scans of selected typescript cards have been included in the Appendix.

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