Poszukiwanie sensu na gruzach Historii. Historiozoficzna retrogresja Mieczysława Porębskiego
Searching for Sense in the Rubble of History. Historiosophical Retrogression of Mieczysław Porębski

Author(s): Katarzyna Szkaradnik
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: Professor Mieczysław Porębski, a distinguished historian and art critic, is also the author ofZ. Po‑wieść [Z. Novel] (1989), in which he presented his original philosophy of history. Charactersin this book are trying to read the meanings contained in the “images” passed down by history,in order to be able to recognise the elements of their own identity in what is considered to bedistant past, with the use of their imagination, interpretation and empathy. In this article, theauthor is trying to illustrate, how this formally complicated prose is bonded together by meansof reflection on the ways of ordering one’s own biography and polyphonic history, as well ason learning one’s history and identity through narration. The aim of the article is to characterizethe vision of Porębski as a hermeneutic project which, drawing from various achievements ofpostmodernism, does not avoid questions about the condition of human being and the sense ofwhat happens to him/her

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