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Summary/Abstract: On the surface, the book Lekcje ciemności. Kino dokumentalne Wernera Herzoga [Lessons of Darkness: Werner Herzog’s Documentaries] (2020) by Magdalena Kempna-Pieniążek is a guide to the documentary cinema of the German director. Upon closer examination, though, the publication reveals its pioneering character. The reviewer draws attention to the author’s compelling attempt to place Herzog’s films in the context of Romantic gnoseology. He appreciates her idea to analyze the director’s work according to various ways of cognition and bind them together by the theme of darkness. As Kempna-Pieniążek notes, Werner Herzog tries to discover the truth about reality in crisis during his ‘lessons of darkness’.

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