SEEING NOTHING IN ONESELF. MELANCHOLY IN AMIEL'S 'INTIMATE DIARY' (Zobaczyc w sobie nic. Melancholia w 'Dzienniku intymnym' Amiela)

• Authors: Sniedziewski Piotr
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This essay attempts at interpreting Henri-Frédéric Amiel's 'Intimate Diary' through the category of melancholy. The key notion for understanding the Swiss philosopher reflection is emptiness: the world in which the subject lives is empty (everything is but his hypostasis); the subject itself is empty; at last, empty is the work itself (the Diary - as it is deprived of an ending or conclusion). In consequence of this logic comes up a modern theory of loss as formulated by Amiel: in this case, certain - still romanticist - connotations, appear to be less essential, whilst those elements which allow for perceiving the Amielian loss in a philosophical and psychological context (a few dozen years before Freud's findings) become key.

Keywords

EN

AMIEL HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC ('INTIMATE DIARY'); EMPTINESS.; MELANCHOLY

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 6(114)
• Pages: 155-169
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sniedziewski Piotr

• Piotr Sniedziewski, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Zaklad LIteratury Romantyzmu, al. Niepodleglosci 4, 61-874 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA056117