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Spirala i amplituda. Dialektyka sztuki

Cezary Woźniak

Culture Management, Volume 24, Issue 1, 2023, pp. 1-14

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843976ZK.23.002.18041

The article presents a certain dialectic of art, the dialectic developed on the basis of such concepts as essence, potentiality, completeness, sense and phenomenon. The completeness of art is hereby understood as the maximum actualisation of its potential, the pretence of art would be therefore something, in which the potentiality of art isn’t elaborated on. What would be the sense of art then? It would be the process of certain actualisation of art potentiality. The history of art then presents itself as the amplitude whose extents are drawn by the level of the actualisation of that potentiality; from the pretence of art to the appearance of immanence, the epiphanic experience of the omni-completeness. This might have been the most maximalist vision of art, which can be found, for example, in Schiller, Schelling, Heidegger or Chögyam Trungpa.

We can also imagine a different variant of dialectic of art, in which its story would have unfolded in form of a spiral. The history of art would then have been driven by the need for the realisation of its telos. It would have been the achievement of complete sense of art inherent to its concept, which may be derived from Hegel’s aesthetics.

Can this spiral and this amplitude be intersecting? And if so, how could this affect understanding of art? It seems that the dialectic form of spiral provides art with the terminological integrity, the possibility of its nominal creation, whereas the form of amplitude reinforces art as the epiphany of omni-completeness. Finally, the art would be the form of energy flow on the certain horizon, horizon of art; the form of flow into its condensation points of completeness; and the moments of transparency of this eternal flow…

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Medytacje tanatologiczne

Cezary Woźniak

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 20 (2/2024), 2024, pp. 73-86

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.24.018.20962

In 1927, Martin Heidegger published the treatise Being and Time, the significance of which went far beyond the realm of philosophy. This book was of fundamental importance for the constitution and development of contemporary philosophical thanatology. This article is devoted to the thanatological issues raised by Heidegger’s views, including the discussion with them undertaken by Jacques Derrida and Ray Brassier. The article discusses issues such as the aporia of death, the subject of death, forms of death, the essence and meaning of death, thanatological difference. It also raises the question: is “my death” possible?

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Między swojskością a obcością. Przyczynki do dialektyki dziedzictwa kulturowego

Cezary Woźniak

Culture Management, Volume 16, Issue 2, 2015, pp. 129-136

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843976ZK.15.008.3043

The article Between Ownness and Alienness: Towards the Dialectic of Cultural Heritage is an attempt to present cultural heritage, or cultural identity, as an effect of two basic factors: that which is one’s own, and that which is alien. “Ownness” and “alienness” are the most general categories of our interpretation of the world, one of the most important categories that enable us to perceive, describe, and organize reality. The dividing line between the two would define the area of cultural heritage.

Drawing on the thought of Heraclitus (especially fragments B 8 and B 122) the author first discusses the dialectic of the oppositional categories of “ownness” and “alienness”, proceeding to describe the immanently cultural occasion of an “encounter with the alien”, drawing on the ideas of Kant, Scheler, Heidegger, Gadamer, Lacan and Waldenfels, to round up his argument by linking his reflection to the question of cultural heritage, which – in view of the whole reasoning – appears as a historical record of the encounter with alienness. The author refers to the literary oeuvre of Gombrowicz and the paintings of Nowosielski as examples of creative output linked to the question of ownness and alienness.

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Postmodernizm a nihilizm

Cezary Woźniak

Principia, Volume 35-36, 2003, pp. 209-223

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Wczesnego Heideggera idea filozofii jako wiedzy primordialnej

Cezary Woźniak

Principia, Volume 49, 2007, pp. 125-138

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Cezary Woźniak

Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland)

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Jagiellonian University in Kraków

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Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland)

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Cezary Woźniak