Moment osobisty. Stempowski, Czapski, Miłosz
A personal moment. Stempowski, Czapski, Miłosz

Author(s): Dorota Sieroń-Galusek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Stempowski; Czapski; Miłosz
Summary/Abstract: The publication is a continuation of the humanistic studies on the environmentof people co-creating Literary Institute in Maisons-Laffitte. Dorota Sieroń-Galusekexamines what traces of formation experiences mentioned in the title of the work leftin letters, diaries and memories. She proves how often the artists, a poet in the case ofMiłosz or a painter in the case of Czapski, despite a totally different life devotion, referto pedagogical situations, and describe themselves as students, as authors constantlyworking on self-training, as well as teachers sharing with their knowledge and life experience.Even if the writings of the authors in question show a model of a pedagogicalsituation that is too idealistic, the author of the work treats it as a perfect starting pointfor a discussion on the cultural formation of man these days, as well as the possibilityto reach what constitutes the essence of the master-learner relationship.An introduction to considerations are biographic sketches, being an attempt at pointingto the moments that made experiencing the culture for Stempowski, Czapski andMiłosz a life-time project, and process of constant training. The next chapter, Circles,bonds, institutions, reconstructs the places that were important in their cultural education,both formal, institutional and informal initiatives. How Stempowski, Czapski andMiłosz understood culture is described in the chapter entitled Culture individualizedstatement. All three of them taught while their learners in the evidence left treat themas masters. The master-learner relationship is elaborated on in the chapter entitled Givea sense of direction. The scope of actions taken by the authors was very broad, which waspresented in the chapter called In action. It constitutes, at the same time, an attemptat confronting their ways of acting in the culture with the standards biding in animation,culture popularization or cultural education these days. The authors in questionbelong today to the canon of the Polish culture that is why according to the author therecord of their formation experiences should be treated as important heritage perhapsdeliberately left out as their contribution to the reflection on cultural education andpedagogy these days.

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