Flaw of Freedom, Stigma of Autocreation: Inhuman Burden of Self-fashioning Subject in Romantic Anthropology Cover Image

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Flaw of Freedom, Stigma of Autocreation: Inhuman Burden of Self-fashioning Subject in Romantic Anthropology

Author(s): Kamil Barski
Subject(s): Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: Romantic subject; freedom; self-fashioning; melancholy; aggression;

Summary/Abstract: The tragic Romantic anthropology entailed a rebellious conflict with the world, other people and even with the self. Its integral part is a mental wound of Romantics, whose anthropological and philosophical contexts are presented in the article. The author attempts to establish a set of factors which led to the ethical, social, religious and psychological anxieties of the French post-revolution generations. To that end the author uses various approaches that encompass psychological aspects of different kinds of aggression aimed at God, the world and the self, psychoanalysis as well as philosophy (especially Kierkegaard’s thought). The strong Romantic subject appears to be a lie, and its tragedy resides in the demand for authenticity, which in itself posed too big a challenge for homeless newcomers in a completely transferred reality.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 103-123
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish