Applying the past to the present and making it universal as figures of Norwid's historical thinking Cover Image

Aktualizacja i uniwersalizacja jako figury myślenia historycznego Norwida
Applying the past to the present and making it universal as figures of Norwid's historical thinking

Author(s): Sławomir Rzepczyński
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: Norwid; Romanticism; history; hermeneutics

Summary/Abstract: The Author puts Norwid’s thinking about history in the context of Romantic historical hermeneutics, pointing to its connections both with Polish tradition (Lelewel, Krasin´ ski, Cieszkowski, Mickiewicz, Słowacki), and with the authors of German historism (Ranke, Droysen), as well as with the post-Romantic realistic historism (Renan, Darwin). He also emphasizes the idiomatic character of the poet’s historical reflection, pointing to the fact that he attempted to bring the recognized motifs from the past up to date and to make them universal with respect to the process of the world’s evolution inspired by the Christian thought.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 3-19
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish