Title Czesławo Miłoszo „katastrofizmas“ ir Vakarų kultūros krizė /
Translation of Title Czesław Miłosz’s “catastrophism” and the crisis of Western culture.
Authors Vidauskytė, Lina
Full Text Download
Is Part of Filosofija. Sociologija = Philosophy. Sociology / Lietuvos mokslų akademija.. Vilnius : Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla. 2007, T. 18, nr. 1, p. 57-65.. ISSN 0235-7186
Keywords [eng] Miłosz ; Cultural crisis ; Ccatastrophism ; Ketman
Abstract [eng] The article deals with the reflection of Western cultural crisis in Czesław Miłosz’s creativity expressed as “catastrophism”. The experience of crisis must be linked with the political situation between the two World Wars, but Miłosz perceives it as a crisis of culture and first of all a crisis in the changed social sphere. His view is close to the opinion of the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset: “the rebellion of the mass” is one of the signs of cultural crisis. Miłosz rejects Ortega’s idea of “dehumanization of art” because, according to Miłosz, a contemporary artist reflecting himself as a single individual and seeking to avoid the man of mass in fact is part of that mass. “The Captive mind” is the analysis of Polish writers’ timeserving policy after World War II. In this book, Miłosz tried to find some kind of justification of writers’ position and introduced a concept of “ketman”. Miłosz practiced “ketman” himself when he worked in diplomatic service of the Polish People’s Republic and later in West emigration.
Published Vilnius : Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2007