„Chciałbym zdjąć filologię jak przepoconą koszulę”. Greckie podróże Jerzego Kowalskiego w latach 1928–1936
‘I would like to take off philology like a sweaty shirt’. Jerzy Kowalski’s Greek Travels 1928–1936

Author(s): Katarzyna Sadkowska
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Jerzy Kowalski; Greek travels; archaic Greece; Nietzsche; idealisation
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the forgotten Greek journeys from 1928–1936 of the Polish classical philologist Jerzy Kowalski from the University of Lviv. Kowalski is looking for archaic Greece (he is inspired by the work of Friedrich Nietzsche), rejecting classical Greece as an artificial construct. According to Kowalski, only a scientist can restore the truth about Greece. In the description of the journey, he deconstructs the view of a philologist, presenting the perspective of an archaeologist. Ultimately, however, he chooses the idealizing view of the philologist as a condition for modelling contemporary humanism. For Kowalski, Greece represents the idea of freedom and human rights.

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