O kończeniu i rozpoczynaniu, czyli co się rodzi, gdy przemija postać świata
On Ending and Beginning, or What Is Born When the Present Form of the World Passes Away

Author(s): Marcin Trzęsiok
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The article proposes a typology of articulation of the Romantic and modernist crisis of the Western Culture. The author distinguishes two primary narratives (rhetorics), inwhich the crisis is approached as a decline (twilight) or a new beginning (dawn). He alsointroduces yet another type—a rhetoric of dynamic stability, which emerges as a resultof the exhaustion of the idea of progress and guided history, in which the first two typesare deeply rooted. Moreover, the author characterises briefly each of these rhetorics andprovides examples of how each of them manifests in music. In the conclusions, the authorpoints to the potential for the emergence of a new philosophical paradigm, contained inthe premises of the rhetoric of dynamic stability.

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