Zapomniany światopogląd tragiczny
A Forgotten Tragic Viewpoint. An Attempt to Advocate Some Attitude

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to comprehensively describe the category of tragic, which is dislodgedfrom the mind of present western world’s human. The authoress analyses thatodium’s causes, but first of all, with regard to various thinkers, she tries to bring outthe essence of tragic viewpoint, often represented in a simplified way as a synonymof pessimism and martyrdom. In the article problems of the tragic are considered incontext of the tragedy as dramatic species, human relation to the fate, characteristicsZapomniany światopogląd tragiczny. Próba apologii pewnej postawy 23of the tragic hero, the issue of human finiteness, rationalism’s limitations, the matterof transcendence and self-transcendence. Lastly, it is demonstrated that despite theaccentuation of individual experience and coping with fate, the tragic viewpointhas the community potential. In conclusion, the openness to “tragic knowledge” isshown as a chance to reinterpret contemporary culture as well as a chance of theintegral experience.

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