„Człowiek jest czemś, co przezwyciężone być powinno”. Dyskurs historiozoficzny 2001: Odysei kosmicznej

• Authors: Konrad Klejsa

Title variants

EN

“Man is something that shall be overcome“. The histori-osophical discourse of 2001: A Space Odyssey

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Drawing upon classic works on Kubrick’s 2001, the author ponders various strategies of interpretation which have been adopted to decipher the film’s discourse. The title category of historiosophy indicates one of the possible interpretational paths: the one associated with the Nietzschean notion of humankind stuck in a liminal stage between an animal and the overman. The author claims that such an understanding was typical of the late 1960s, and he pursues his argument with a close analysis of several sequences from the film, focusing on the formal devices which present the human protagonists as weak and lackluster, while the animal, the technological and the extraterrestrial characters are depicted as vital and irrepressible.

EN

Drawing upon classic works on Kubrick’s 2001, the author ponders various strategies of interpretation which have been adopted to decipher the film’s discourse. The title category of historiosophy indicates one of the possible interpretational paths: the one associated with the Nietzschean notion of humankind stuck in a liminal stage between an animal and the overman. The author claims that such an understanding was typical of the late 1960s, and he pursues his argument with a close analysis of several sequences from the film, focusing on the formal devices which present the human protagonists as weak and lackluster, while the animal, the technological and the extraterrestrial characters are depicted as vital and irrepressible.

Keywords

PL

Stanley Kubrick; 2001: Space Odyssey; historiosophy; Friedrich Nietzsche

EN

2001: Space Odyssey; Stanley Kubrick; historiosophy; Friedrich Nietzsche; 2001: Space Odyssey; Stanley Kubrick; historiosophy; Friedrich Nietzsche

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 37
• Pages: 35-60

Dates

published

2021-03-31

Contributors

author

Konrad Klejsa

• Katedra Filmu i Mediów Audiowizualnych, Uniwersytet Łódzki

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6259-9173

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/i.2020.37.03