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- Editorial Introduction
- Sophokles in Quebec
- The Last Step in The Clouds
- Supersensible Necessity
- The God of Young Marx
- Nikolai Fyodorov – The Extravagance of Resurrection
- Witkacy and Modernity
- W. G. Sebald’s Elective Affinities: On The Rings of Saturn""
- Loitering With Intent: Daemonic Author and Selfinventing Heroes
- Sacred Power Drenched in Blood
- Karol Irzykowski’s Lacanian Reading of Freud
- Lévinas’s Concept of Justice: From Ethics to Politics and Back
- Aestheticisation and Its Axiological Consequences
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Witkacy and Modernity
Authors: Mateusz Werner Publisher: Kronos. Philosophical Journal Publication date: 2012 Publication language: Angielski Number of pages: 16 Publication formats: Category: Literature & literary studies Publisher's index: - Bibliographic note: -
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Mateusz Werner
MATEUSZ WERNER is a philosopher of culture, essayist and film critic. He holds a Ph.D. in humanities. He is the author of the book Facing Nihilism. Gombrowicz, Witkacy (2009). He also edited a collection of essays by Pier Paolo Pasolini, After Genocide (2012) and two English books on Polish cinema: What Kieslowski Tells Us Today? (2008) and Polish Cinema Now! (2010). He co-translated Martin Heidegger’s book on Nietzsche. Mateusz Werner studied Polish Philology at Warsaw University and Social Science at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was awarded a Junior Fellowship at he Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. His doctoral dissertation concerned the problem of nihilism and modernity. He taught fi lm at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, the National Film School in Łódź and the Institute of Polish Philology at Warsaw University. In 2001-2012 he worked as curator of the national fi lm program at the Institute of Adam Mickiewicz. Mateusz Werner is an editor and one of the co-founders of “Kronos” quarterly. He is a lecturer at the Institute of Humanities at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.