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Miłosz’s Biology Lesson

Publication date: 02.08.2013

Przekładaniec, Issues in English, Issue 25/2011– Between Miłosz and Milosz, pp. 59 - 79

https://doi.org/10.4467/16891864ePC.13.016.1205

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Dariusz Czaja
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
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Miłosz’s Biology Lesson

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Over the years Visions from San Francisco Bay (1969) has proven to be essential both to Miłosz’s life and to his writings. It was there that he formulated, for the fi rst time with such a force, the theses that would later reappear regularly in his essays and poetry. One vital aspect of the intellectual construction outlined in Visions was the concept of Nature. Miłosz proposed a “presentistic” approach, arguing for the concept of Nature as an indispensable element of contemporary thought. His refl ections were restricted to motifs closely related to his theses about Nature: Nature and beauty, human/animal relations, and the theory of evolution.

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Information: Przekładaniec, Issues in English, Issue 25/2011– Between Miłosz and Milosz, pp. 59 - 79

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Miłosz’s Biology Lesson

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Miłosz’s Biology Lesson

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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 02.08.2013

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