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Stanisława Lema „projekt wyjścia” jako nowoczesny wariant „mitu wyjścia”

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Krysiak R.

Świat Tekstów. Rocznik Słupski

2009

vol. 7

113-135

The following sketch outlines the problem of the philosophical context of Lem’s conception of cognition. The selected Lem’s texts interpreted below are, in my opinion, manifestations of modern condition. This condition is involved in a specific philosophical context, namely in a modern version of the ,,Exodus motif”. Examining Lem’s ,,exodus project” or ,,project of contact” it is not difficult to notice its essential coincidence with the myth of Exodus in Enlightenment and modern version, the key characteristic of which was presented by Agata Bielik-Robson. From her perspective, the culture of will, which is realized in our time under the decadent aegis of culture of complaint, demands that it should be reality that gets to ,,emancipation claims of an individual”. This change of the current condition, which has the nature of ,,exodus”, is tantamount to the project of improving existence, precisely adjusted to enlightened, rational individuals. The project in question undoubtedly stems from Lem’s first essayistic texts – Dialogs and Summa Technologiae. It is a heterogeneous project that is constantly changing in the course of time. It could be said that its metamorphosis goes from Kant’s Ausgang – which is in Lem’s works identical to a deep conviction that the modern will is able to update reality (it is the conviction of subjectivity of Dialogs and Summa technologiae and easiness that accompanies the process of writing of ‘anticipating’ literature) – to postmodernistic Transgression that falls outside existence because it is related to ,,atrophied will”, ,,’unwillingness’ full of Manichean aversion to what already exists”. The latter stage is identical to a move visible in the late writing of Lem, e.g. in Sex Wars. However, it is also visible in Lem’s decision to end his literary work. In this context the selected Lem’s texts are interpreted in the article.

Stanisław Lem jako autor. Szkic o podmiocie sylwicznym

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Krysiak R.

Świat Tekstów. Rocznik Słupski

2008

vol. 6

73-88

In his letter to FBI Philip K. Dick expressed the supposition that Stanislaw Lem “is probably a composite committee rather than an individual, since he writes in several styles”. This article refers in a way to the quoted, and treated as an anecdote, utterance. However, it doesn’t draw so far reaching conclusions from stylistic diversity – that permanent metamorphosis, mask reversal, how it was presented by Jerzy Jarzębski – texts of the author of Solaris. It makes the category of author – as bonding together Stanisław Lem’s works in a opus magnum – problematical. Simultaneously, it suggests the look at the subject of Polish writer’s texts as the subject of silva rerum, namely the one, who shapes himself and, at the same time, interprets himself in the act of “reading-writing”, rather than is given. The term “signature of silva rerum” seems to describe better the “unsystemic regularity” of Lem’s writings. Lem’s remark concerning his book Filozofia przypadku: “volume, in which everything only begins, promises, opens – but nothing closes or ends”, seems to refer also to his other works. The case is similar with the subject of Lem’s texts, who, admittedly, is the subject of a biography and autobiography but the subject, who only promises himself. Therefore, he merges but also disperses the work. This bidirectional process of closing and opening is the topic of this article.

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Stanisława Lema „projekt wyjścia” jako nowoczesny wariant „mitu wyjścia”

Stanisław Lem jako autor. Szkic o podmiocie sylwicznym