This volume is the first foreign language selection of essays written by Stanisław Brzozowski (1878-1911), who was an outstanding Polish philosopher, literary critic and writer. His works are a very important contribution to the European philosophy of culture. Brzozowski’s thought combined motifs of German, French, Italian, Russian and Anglo-American contemporary currents with the vivid Polish Romantic tradition of philosophy of action. Brzozowski’s theory of culture, undertaken in the light of a philosophy of labour and human emancipation, is an important counterproposition to other conceptions (e.g. Rickert, Windelband, Simmel, Croce) which flourished at the beginning of the 20th century. The volume opens with the still inspiring manifest Culture and life which gives the title to the anthology. The other texts represent different, sometimes seemingly conflicting stages of Brzozowski’s philosophical evolution. They also reflect the general intention of his works to develop an integral theory apt to save and realize such values as freedom, vitality, individual creativity and historicity of human existence. The first part of this book gathers studies (Kant, Philosophy of Polish Romanticism, Cyprian Norwid’s Testament) which exemplify an idealistic position of Brzozowski which was not free from some insufficiencies and ended in a self-correction. The second part shows Brzozowski’s evolution towards a philosophy of labour and consists of the texts Our “I” and history and Humour and law. The third part of the volume includes essays testifying the author’s connection with historical materialism: Antonio Labriola, Historical materialism as philosophy of culture, Religion and society, Pragmatism and historical materialism. The last texts – an essay On the Memoirs of Saint-Simon and some fragments from Brzozowski’s Diary – show an increasing sympathizing with Christianity in a modern Catholic form. The selected texts are accompanied by an Introduction by Maciej Urbanowski, a Polish editor of Brzozowski’s works, as well as by a comment written by Gerardo Cunico, an Italian philosopher expecially acquainted with the European and Polish messianic thought.

Cultura e vita

CUNICO, GERARDO
2016-01-01

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This volume is the first foreign language selection of essays written by Stanisław Brzozowski (1878-1911), who was an outstanding Polish philosopher, literary critic and writer. His works are a very important contribution to the European philosophy of culture. Brzozowski’s thought combined motifs of German, French, Italian, Russian and Anglo-American contemporary currents with the vivid Polish Romantic tradition of philosophy of action. Brzozowski’s theory of culture, undertaken in the light of a philosophy of labour and human emancipation, is an important counterproposition to other conceptions (e.g. Rickert, Windelband, Simmel, Croce) which flourished at the beginning of the 20th century. The volume opens with the still inspiring manifest Culture and life which gives the title to the anthology. The other texts represent different, sometimes seemingly conflicting stages of Brzozowski’s philosophical evolution. They also reflect the general intention of his works to develop an integral theory apt to save and realize such values as freedom, vitality, individual creativity and historicity of human existence. The first part of this book gathers studies (Kant, Philosophy of Polish Romanticism, Cyprian Norwid’s Testament) which exemplify an idealistic position of Brzozowski which was not free from some insufficiencies and ended in a self-correction. The second part shows Brzozowski’s evolution towards a philosophy of labour and consists of the texts Our “I” and history and Humour and law. The third part of the volume includes essays testifying the author’s connection with historical materialism: Antonio Labriola, Historical materialism as philosophy of culture, Religion and society, Pragmatism and historical materialism. The last texts – an essay On the Memoirs of Saint-Simon and some fragments from Brzozowski’s Diary – show an increasing sympathizing with Christianity in a modern Catholic form. The selected texts are accompanied by an Introduction by Maciej Urbanowski, a Polish editor of Brzozowski’s works, as well as by a comment written by Gerardo Cunico, an Italian philosopher expecially acquainted with the European and Polish messianic thought.
2016
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