Don Kichote. Wędrówka w nowoczesność
Don Quixote. To Wander into Modernity

Summary/Abstract: On a certain July morning four centuries ago Don Quixote decided to leave the house in which he had spent almost fifty years. On the very same day he resolved to wander across the world on a quest for adventures. His journeys were by no means a travail to which he had been condemned by a verdict passed by someone. Nor did he vanish without a trace or from the very onset wished – in the manner of Odysseus – to return home. This was a radically different journey. “The wandering will annihilate Don Quixote, but earlier nothingness will produce reality” (Janusz Węgiełek). What sort of a model of reality and our existence in the world is, therefore, the outcome of this journey? Why did the knight on his solitary way along a La Mancha trail become the founder of modernity, in which we continue to recognise ourselves?

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