Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945, Vol. IV, 2014, p.156
NED - New edition, 1, 2014
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- Titel
- UNKEMPT SOULS
- Ist Teil von
- Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945, Vol. IV, 2014, p.156
- Auflage
- NED - New edition, 1
- Ort / Verlag
- Central European University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2014
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- Witkacy’s oeuvre is difficult to assess in its entirety due to the fact that an unknown part of it was destroyed during the 1944 Warsaw uprising. Almost all his works in arts and philosophy were marked by an attempt to question a wide array of intellectual and ideological affiliations and to express a distinct and unique position within, or rather outside of, contemporary cultural life. The personality of his father, Stanisław Witkiewicz, an acknowledged leftist intellectual and artist, seems to have stimulated his need to express his own personality through successive rejections of group identity. Raised in the Polish cultural
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9789637326622, 9637326626Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt13wztwr_19
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- –
- Schlagworte
- Addiction, Alcoholism, Anthropology, Arts, Behavioral disorders, Behavioral sciences, Civilization, Clinical psychology, Concept of mind, Consciousness theory, Countries, Democracy, Ethnography, Ethnology, European studies, Government, Human geography, Literary criticism, Literary studies, Literature, Mental illness, Metaphilosophy, Metaphysics, Monopsychism, Philosophical analysis, Philosophical methods, Philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Political change, Political geography, Political processes, Political regimes, Political revolutions, Political science, Political systems, Politics, Psychology, Russian literature, Russian studies, Slavic culture, Slavic studies, Social sciences, Sociology, Soul, Western civilization