Problematyka wartości w wybranych lirykach Jacka Bierezina
The issue of values in selected poems by Jacek Berezin

Summary/Abstract: The area of my research includes the issue of values in the poems of Jacek Bierezin (1947–1993), a poet born in Łódź and associated with this city for most of his life. I research this topic using phenomenology and axiology. I believe that values are most strongly constituted and emerge in borderline situations, they are a derivative of freedom and choice, therefore, following Józef Tischner, I examine them as a borderline phenomenon. They are related to the phenomena of place and time, embedded in history, as shown by Tischner’s philosophy of meeting and dialogue, whose work I am using. I operate in the philosophy of drama and two spaces: the axiological Self and the Other. The communicative function of the Other also stems from the philosophy of encounter. In Berezin’s poetry, it is revealed in opposition to silent consent to evil. The issue of values is connected with the problem of axiology, in fact programmatically exposed in the poems of the poet from Łódź, who declares himself a student of Zbigniew Herbert.

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