Mickiewicz i romantyczna filozofia języka
Mickiewicz and Romantic Philosophy of Language

Author(s): Olaf Krysowski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Adam Mickiewicz; language; philosophy; Slavdom; Romanticism
Summary/Abstract: The scope of Mickiewicz’s interest in language was enormous. The fundamental message of the poet’s argument is that speech does not only express reality and depicts it, but in some miraculous way allows us to look into it, learn about the past and predict the future. It is a kind of time machine, which, on the one hand, enables going back to the most distant past, to the beginnings of humanity, not described in chronicles, and on the other hand, allows to design a world about to happen.

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