Pasja porządkowania. Rec.: Teresa Kostkiewiczowa, Wokół oświecenia. Studia i szkice. Warszawa 2024
A Passion for Ordering. Review: Teresa Kostkiewiczowa, Wokół oświecenia. Studia i szkice. Warszawa 2024

Summary/Abstract: Teresa Kostkiewiczowa’s latest collection of papers entitled “Wokół oświecenia. Studia i szkice” (“On Enlightenment. Studies and Sketches,” 2024) is synthesising in nature in that it methodises the seminal questions about the Polish and European Enlightenment and about the durability of its heritage. The problematised composition of the collection is organised into considerations about such key categories as the change, universalism, classicism, sentimentalism. The book gains special magnitude in the course of depicting classicism and sentimentalism as “long-lasting” anthropological-cultural projects, which allows to link the 18th literary history with inquiries into human nature, community, tradition, and modernity. The reviewed volume is an important contribution to research in Enlightenment and in reflection about the role of a humanist in contemporary world.

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