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Stanislaw Brzozowski and the Migration of Ideas

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As a writer, critic, and philosopher, Stanislaw Brzozowski (1878–1911) left a lasting imprint on Polish culture. The essays in this volume reassess and contextualize Brzozowski’s writings from a di...
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As a writer, critic, and philosopher, Stanisław Brzozowski (1878–1911) left a lasting imprint on Polish culture. He absorbed virtually all topical intellectual trends of his time, adapting them for the needs of what he saw as his primary mission: the modernization of Polish culture. The essays of the volume reassess and contextualize Brzozowski's writings from a distinctly transnational vantage point. They shed light on often surprising and hitherto underrated affinities between Brzozowski and intellectual figures and movements in Eastern and Western Europe. Furthermore, they explore the presence of his ideas in twentieth-century century literary criticism and theory.
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Price: $60.00
Pages: 362
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Lettre
Publication Date: 27 February 2019
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837646412
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Soviet), HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern

Jens Herlth (PhD), born in 1971, is full professor of Slavic literatures at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His research interests include Polish intellectual history, Russian and Polish literature in the context of the history of ideas, and the relationship between literature and the social sciences.
Edward M. Swiderski is professor emeritus for the philosophy of culture and aesthetics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His research areas include philosophy in Russia and Poland, phenomenology and analytic philosophy with particular emphasis on the philosophy of music and social ontology.

Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 5
On Brzozowski's Presence and Absence in Poland and Beyond 7
"Sounding out idols": Brzozowski and Strindberg as Nietzsche Readers 23
"Ibsen! Oh, let us not invoke this name in vain!" Brzozowski's Ibsen Not-quite-read 39
Stanisaw Brzozowski and Die Neue Zeit 57
Les Déracinés: Brzozowski and Barrès 77
The Cult of Will and Power: Did Brzozowski Inspire Ukrainian Nationalism? 107
Brzozowski and Cioran: The Legend of Young Poland and The Transformation of Romania 133
Brzozowski and the Italians 139
Brzozowski and Rorty: Coping with the Contingent Self 159
Stanisaw Brzozowski and Romantic Revision (Meyer Howard Abrams, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom): Prolegomena 187
Brzozowski as Precursor to Contemporary Studies on Cyprian Norwid's Legacy 209
Brzozowskianism: The Trouble with the "Great" Brzozowski and His Followers 237
"actually speaking, this man converted me": Jerzy Liebert, Brzozowski, and the Question of a Modern Religous Poetry 249
Stanisaw Brzozowski as Harbinger and Enabler of Modern Literary Theory in Poland and the West 273
The Stalinist Reception of Stanisaw Brzozowski's Philosophy: The Case of Pawe Hoffman 303
Brzozowski and the Question of Engagement: On a Different Concept of the Autonomy of Art 321
Brzozowski or Plots of the Future 339
Epilogue 351
Contributors 359