The figure of a philosophical authority in the Polish post-modernist literary criticism – on the example of Martin Heidegger Cover Image

Figura filozoficznego autorytetu w polskiej postmodernistycznej krytyce literatury – na przykładzie Martina Heideggera
The figure of a philosophical authority in the Polish post-modernist literary criticism – on the example of Martin Heidegger

Author(s): Joanna Orska
Subject(s): Political history, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: Heidegger; reception of Heidegger; post-structuralism; political transformation; Komendant;

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the circumstances of Heidegger’s text reception in Poland in the 1970s and in during the political transformation. Just as he did in France, Heidegger proved a significant reference point for text-centric methodologies of poststructuralism also in Poland. The paper shows how the critical-literary interpretation of Heidegger’s philosophical theses combined with a strong inspiration from Michel Foucault shaped one of the most original Polish critics of the literature from the political transformation period – Tadeusz Komendant. His peculiar, philosophical-literary style, together with poetic definitions with which he tried to capture the rules of post-structuralism for the sake of Polish literary criticism, had a significant impact on the discourse of post-transformation poetry criticism.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 110-125
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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