Akcenty nad nicością i prochem. Zbigniew Herbert – poezja jako habituacja

• Authors: Bal Nowak Maria

Title variants

EN

Thoughts on Nothingness and Ashes. Zbigniew Herbert – Poetry as Habituation

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The subject of my article is a reconstruction of Zbigniew Herbert’s value system. For this reason, I analyse his poems from an aesthetical and ethical perspective. Is it possible that the poetic imagination not only reflects a point of view, but also forms moral attitudes? It can be inquired whether besides being an obligation towards imagination, the duty of poets and poetry may as well be a kind of habituation, or the formation of „value tables”, or Aristotelian practising of good habits and patterns. Can Herbertian „taste” become an aesthetical version of conscience when an ethical perspective is replaced by an aesthetic one? Can it be used as weapons against the banality and triviality of evil? My analysis is supplemented with a comparison of Herbert’s stand to Calderon de la Barca’s and Joseph Conrad’s positions.

Keywords

EN

Zbigniew Herbert; value system; poetry; aesthetics; ethics

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Estetyka i Krytyka
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 19
• Pages: 11-23

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

Bal Nowak Maria

• Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie

Identifiers

ISSN

1643-1243