Published: 2021-12-30

Adam Zagajewski’s Self-Portraits

Jan Potkański Logo ORCID

Website: http://ilp.uw.edu.pl/pracownik/potkanski-jan/
Section: studies and essays
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.10053

(A research article in Polish/Artykuł w języku polskim)

Abstract

The article analyzes a series of Adam Zagajewski’s self-portraits against the backdrop of his essays as well as a variety of contemporary theories, especially Paul de Man’s deconstruction and Michel Foucault’s spirituality philosophy. According to this analysis, Zagajewski’s self-portraits are approaching the kind of spiritual exercises described by Pierre Hadot: Zagajewski uses them to try to rebuild his personality, having designed its richer and more mature version, partly following the example of Zagajewski’s masters, such as Józef Czapski. Understood in this way, Zagajewski’s works contain a surprisingly wealthy theoretical substance, heretofore unrecognized by commentators.

Citation rules

Potkański, J. (2021). Adam Zagajewski’s Self-Portraits: (A research article in Polish/Artykuł w języku polskim). Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (43), 167–185. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.10053

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Er(r)go 43 (2/2021)

No. 43 (2021)
Published: 2021-12-31


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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