Life in Sketchbooks: On Jadwiga Stańczakowa’s Diary of a Twosome Cover Image

Życie w brulionach. O Dzienniku we dwoje Jadwigi Stańczakowej
Life in Sketchbooks: On Jadwiga Stańczakowa’s Diary of a Twosome

Author(s): Anna Głąb
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature, Source Material
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Charles Taylor; David Parker; Iris Murdoch; Jadwiga Stańczakowa; Miron Białoszewski; diary; philosophy of the good;

Summary/Abstract: The author agrees with the positions held by Charles Taylor and David Parker, who associate autobiographical accounts with “thick” languages of the good. She believes that writing an account of one’s own life requires adequate language which the third-person perspective typical for hard science cannot supply. On the example of Jadwiga Stańczakowa’s Diary of a Twosome, she demonstrates that keeping a diary is a type of spiritual exercise understood as a way of living a good life.

  • Issue Year: 18/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 94-106
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish