Poetry and art by Karol Wojtyła and John Paul II as anthropologic laboratory Cover Image

Karola Wojtyły i Jana Pawła II sztuka i myśl o sztuce jako „laboratorium antropologicznym”
Poetry and art by Karol Wojtyła and John Paul II as anthropologic laboratory

Author(s): Henryk Kiereś
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Philosophy, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Social Philosophy, Theology and Religion
Published by: Fundacja »Lubelska Szkoła Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej«
Keywords: Karol Wojtyła; John Paul II; personalistic anthropology; poetry; art; totalitarian systems

Summary/Abstract: In the introduction to the article, the author cites and analyses the key assumptions of personalistic anthropology made by Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. Based on the aforementioned philosophical analysis, the author of the article notices that in the centre of both content and message of the poetry by Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II there is a human being whose personal features may be perceived through the prism of poetic considerations given to work, fatherland and social life, over faith and prayer. It is a poetry bearing the stamp of two totalitarian systems as well as the aversion of the author to avant-garde which ‘has forgotten about a human being’. The exemplary anthropological threads specified above are intertwined and become prominent when one assumes the perspective of reference to God and to the miracle, which consists in discovering His Existence and the miracle of trying to penetrate His Mystery.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 129-135
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish