"Umysł w stanie nieustannego tworzenia". O krytyce Stanisława Brzozowskiego jako akcie performatywnym
“The incessantly creating mind”: performativity of Stanisław Brzozowski’s criticism

Summary/Abstract: An attempt is offered at reading Stanisław Brzozowski’s criticism with use of tools provided by the performative turn. Thus, criticism appears as an event that establishes reality and triggers action on the part of the reader. This approach is rooted in Brzozowski’s own philosophy: he namely claimed that being is not a permanent once-for-ever-given entity, while thought does not describe a ready-available reality – calling it into being, instead. A performative dimension of criticism is visible in the dramatism of his writing, in a theatralisation of the clash between the ‘I’ and the world-and-culture, as well as in the conviction that action performed on texts (commenting other authors’ texts and creating one’s own) transforms the reality of culture as well as the collective reality.

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