W poszukiwaniu utraconej bezczelności. „Ferdydurke” i cynizm
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2013
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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In search of lost insolence: Ferdydurke and cynicism
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This article is an attempt to interpret Witold Gombrowicz’s first novel in the context of cynicism,
which is first conceptualized within the Foucauldian tradition as a practice of “frank speech”
(parrhesia), and then, according to Peter Sloterdijk’s critical philosophy, as a form of modern
consciousness based on inverted idealism. The opposition between an ancient subversive cynicism
and its modern schizoid form allows one to analyze the complexity of Ferdydurke. In the
course of interpretation it turns out that there are some intersecting planes: the protagonist
searches in vain for lost insolence, but it is the author who manages to find it at the end of the
novel.
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Przestrzenie Teorii, 2013, nr 20, s. 91-108
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978-83-232-2654-3