The Remnants of Modernity: Two Essays on Sarmatism and Utopia in Polish Contemporary Literature

by Przemyslaw Czaplinski

Overview

Post-communist Polish culture faced a problem: how to reconcile a growing demand for individual autonomy with a growing need for interpersonal and interspecies solidarity. The author argues that writers sought a solution in the processing of remnants - in the productive destruction of two leftovers of modernity: Sarmatian and utopia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631629246
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/15/2014
Series:	Modernity in Question: Studies in Philosophy and History of Ideas , #6
Edition description:	Translatio
Pages:	193
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Przemysław Czapliński is a professor of Polish literature at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). He is the author of over a dozen books and the recipient of several national book awards. He writes on Polish modern and postmodern literature, the history of ideas, and the sociology and anthropology of literature.

Table of Contents

Contents: The Remnants of Tradition: Sarmatism, Liberating Bodies, and Late Modernism – Remnants of the Future: Literature and the Creation of Utopia.