Протоекологични идеи за природата в поетико-философски ракурс (Торо–Бодлер)
Proto-Ecological Ideas About Nature From a Poetic-Philosophical Perspective (Thoreau⸺Baudelaire)

Summary/Abstract: The article starts from a comparative plot: the understanding of nature (in the image of the forest) in the French post-romantic-symbolist poet Ch. Baudelaire and the American transcendentalist philosopher H. D. Thoreau. Direct reading subjects are the sonnet “Correspondence” from The Flowers of Evil (1857) and Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854). Their contemporaneity is only a starting point to search for other, deeper and more essential, philosophical closenesses, but also distances-in-closeness in view of the extremely different contexts – of Thoreau’s “Americanness” (in the immediate context of the so-called American Renaissance around the middle of the 19th century, of American philosophical transcendentalism and American literary romanticism) and Baudelaire’s symbolism. The emphasis in the comparison is on Thoreau – his intermediate/mixing position in thinking about nature: between transcendence (“correspondences”) and sensory reality. Auxiliary – contextualizing and medial – figures in the comparison are: Swedenborg, Emerson, A. von Humboldt, and in a different, including methodological, sense – Heidegger.

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