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Abd el-Kader o XIX-wiecznej Europie
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Gadamska-Serafin, Renata
As a consequence of being an Algerian leader in the struggle of the independence movement and anti-colonial war against France during the 19th century, Emir Abd el-Kader spent 5 years in a French prison. Later he visited Paris and other European cities on other occasions as well. These events in el-Kader’s life were excellent opportunities to become well acquainted with Western civilization. His work: “Call to the Intelligent, Warning to the Indifferent. Philosophical, religious, historical and related considerations” (Paris 1858) can be described not only as a philosophical work but also as a tactful worldview discussion and a well-balanced, though a little covert, critique of the modern civilization and Western Culture. Despite his enthusiasm for Western culture and its intellectual trends of the time, the Arab thinker saw the profound flaws in the modern, Cartesian rationalism. Being a true adherent to the Eastern beliefs of reason and religion as inseparable entities, el-Kader advocated their alliance also in the field of science. He regarded religion and science as complementary domains. He also reproached European scholars for the rejection of tradition as a source of truth, which he perceived as a mistake. During the time of colonial politics, which was based on political and religious confrontation, el-Kader wrote about the essential unity of all religions and a need for consensus between people of all creeds around uniform values. Abd el-Kader’s work remains to this day an interesting testimony of the 19th-century Europe’s reception by a true Eastern thinker coming from the world of Islam.
„Lud «Koranu» – lud «Ewangelii»”. Norwid o genezie islamu i historii relacji chrześcijańsko-muzułmańskich
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2016) Gadamska-Serafin, Renata
In addition to the western Mediterranean culture, Cyprian Kamil Norwid’s cultural interests also include the world of Islam and the civilization of the East. As emerges from the poet’s surviving letters and notes, his interest focused mainly on the question of the origins of the Muslim religion and the centuries-old history of Christian-Muslim relations. As a descendant of King John III Sobieski, the victor over Turks at Vienna, and an avid reader of "Jerusalem Delivered" by Tasso, Norwid simply could not neglect this issue in his ruminations and studies. His notes on Islam in "Album Orbis" were illustrated with many graphics and drawings related to eastern themes. It seems that Norwid’s historical approach to Muslim issues was to a large extent shaped by some patristic sources, and first of all by writings of Saint John of Damascus, rather than by his contemporary scientific or travelogue orientalism.
Poetyka – estetyka – metafizyka
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2013) Gadamska-Serafin, Renata
The modern era has developed poetics very different from Plato’s philosophy of objective beauty and generally inconsistent with or at least indifferent to metaphysics (Baumgarten, Kant). Also romanticists, especially those whose theoretical and literary thought followed the German idealism, were often detached from metaphysical ground (in its proper sense). The natural consequence of choosing this particular way of thinking in the modern paradigm in the 20th century has been the postmodern polyphony in literary theory. A separate and a very mature attitude regarding the form of poetics and its theoretical considerations has been adopted by the author of "Rzecz o wolności słowa" ("About the Freedom of the Word"), who referred to the metaphysical category of "mimesis" (closely linked to his concept of man – "imago Dei") and returned to the concept of objective beauty ("Promethidion"), thus radically overcoming the weakness of modern poetics.
„Promethidion” Cypriana Norwida i „List do artystów” Jana Pawła II, czyli rozważania o pięknie prawdziwym
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2012) Gadamska-Serafin, Renata
Two voices of Polish thinkers and poets on true beauty – “Promethidion” by Cyprian Norwid and “Letter to artists” by John Paul II – are related to each other in the thought on the soteriological character of beauty which triumphantly leads the man beyond his poverty and the perspective of a fall. Both texts were written despite the dominating philosophical currents of their times. Norwid denied hedonism and fuctionalism, and John Paul II’s message from "Letter to artists" remains in principal intellectual opposition to the ‘culture of death’ and postmodern esthetical relativity. Norwid’s thought about beauty is also placed in opposition to promoted by the 20th-century avant-garde and taken over by postmodernism category of ‘originality’. The place of the significant for modernity subjectivism and esthetical relativism is taken over by ‘esthetical personalism’ in the works of the recluse from Paris.
Wspólnotowe i prywatne przestrzenie wolności w kaukaskiej literaturze zesłańczej
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2023-12) Gadamska-Serafin, Renata
Kaukaska literatura emigracyjna XIX wieku kumuluje zapisy różnych sposobów doświadczania wolności pomimo fizycznego zniewolenia. Obiektywną, zewnętrzną formą manifestowania wolności, często przybierającą charakter wspólnotowy, było prowadzenie politycznej misji „apostolskiej” polegającej na głoszeniu idei wolności; prowadzenie badań i pracy naukowej, utrzymywanie więzi z literaturą narodową, czytanie indywidualne lub głośne w grupie zesłańców. Nie mniej ważne było jednak „dotykanie” wolności w indywidualnym, subiektywnym wnętrzu: poprzez uwolnienie nieograniczonych przestrzeni wyobraźni i uruchomienie procesów twórczych twórczego „ja”; dzięki marzeniom i pamięci; w miłości, wreszcie w kontakcie z naturą, która była dla romantyków bramą do transcendencji. Istotą tych poetyckich wizji „wyzwolenia” jest w istocie projekcja powrotu do Raju.