Brakująca granica: wizualność a estetyczna wzniosłość w tekstach popularnonaukowych przełomu XIX i XX wieku

• Authors: Pąkciński Marek

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The Missing Border: Visuality and the Aesthetic Sublime in the Essays and Popular Treatises in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The article contains an analysis of the rhetoric of selected texts from Polish popular press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century (“Tygodnik Ilustrowany”, “Ogniwo”, “Niwa”, and “Ateneum”), mainly related to the visual aspect of astronomical phenomena. The interpretation of these texts has been carried out here in the context of modern philosophy (especially of the notion of the sublime from Kant’s "Critique of Judgement", as well as one of the last attempts to create metaphysical “myth” in "The Ages of the World" treatise by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling) and contemporary interpretation of Plato’s philosophy created by Eric Voegelin and Paul de Man (interpretation of Kant’s transcendental aesthetics in the "Aesthetic Ideology"). Creating such a constellation of texts is used to answer the question: how the specific presentation of the findings of science (via the mathematical and the dynamical sublime forms) becomes a tool for promoting a modern worldview with its characteristic features: depersonalization of views on the cosmic order, depriving them of emotional components, as well as displacement of existential issues (related to the philosophical “myth of the soul”) in the private sphere, without the effects on the social dimension of morality and politics.

Keywords

PL

publicystyka popularnonaukowa; astronomia; retoryka tekstu; wzniosłość; Platon; Immanuel Kant; Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

EN

popular science journalism; astronomy; rhetoric of the text; sublime; Plato; Immanuel Kant; Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski / Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Napis. Pismo poświęcone literaturze okolicznościowej i użytkowej
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 197-218

Contributors

author

Pąkciński Marek

• Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego