On the ‘Superiority’ of Giordano Bruno over Benedict de Spinoza, or On the Rapport Andrzej Nowicki – Leszek Kołakowski. An Introduction to an Essay ab Cover Image

O wyższości Giordana Bruna nad Benedyktem de Spinozą, czyli o relacjach: Andrzej Nowicki – Leszek Kołakowski (wstęp do szkicu „biografii równoległych”
On the ‘Superiority’ of Giordano Bruno over Benedict de Spinoza, or On the Rapport Andrzej Nowicki – Leszek Kołakowski. An Introduction to an Essay ab

Author(s): Stefan Symotiuk
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Warsaw school of the historians of ideas; anthropocentrism – humanism; optimism – pessimism

Summary/Abstract: Many of the protagonists of the “Warsaw school of the historians of ideas” are overshadowed today by the personality and work of Leszek Kołakowski. The author demonstrates that there were figures equal to Kołakowski, and perhaps more significant intellectually and culturally. He recalls Andrzej Nowicki as a thinker capable of competing with Kołakowski and worthy of being presented in a “parallel biography”, juxtaposing their vicissitudes and views in Poland after 1945.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 69-78
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish