Platon, Katon i Tadeusz Rejtan: tyrania i metafizyka u Jacques’a Delille’a i Adama Mickiewicza
Plato, Cato and Tadeusz Rejtan: tyranny and metaphysics in Jacques Delille and Adam Mickiewicz

Author(s): Mateusz Stróżyński
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Metaphysics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Plato; Cato; Tadeusz Rejtan; tyranny; metaphysics; Jacques Delille; Adam Mickiewicz
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the significance of the portrait of Tadeusz Rejtan in Book I of Pan Tadeusz, showing how Mickiewicz combines the ancient and medieval tradition associated with Cato the Younger and Jacques Delille’s Dithyramb on the Immor- tality of the Soul. Rejtan becomes an archetype of opposition to tyranny transplanted into Polish culture and the experience of the partition. Mickiewicz imbues this archetype with a distinctly metaphysical character, inspired by Plato’s philosophy, going beyond the his- torical context and towards the eternal and universal.

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