ŚMIERĆ I SUPERBOHATER W REFLEKSJI FILOZOFICZNEJ BOLESŁAWA MICIŃSKIEGO
Abstract
DEATH AND THE SUPERHERO IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT
OF BOGUSŁAW MICIŃSKI
The purpose of this short essay is to present the profile of pre-war polish
writer and philosopher Bolesław Miciński. On the occasion of the second
edition of his writings it is worth to recall the memory of him. This exceptional
penman suffered from his youth and awareness of impending death
permeated his thought and creativity. Short life and war caused the forgetting
of his achievements and literary output. This is a huge loss because his work
was ahead of his time. Popular literature has a special place in his work.
Miciński believed that literary texts looking for the truth about human life. For
his master Jerzy Stempowski thought that literature has the value of
describing and explaining the truth about the meaning of the existence of man.
The main characters of his philosophizing essays were superheroes and death.
Philosopher did not accept the existing system of values, but sought their real
meaning.These experiences have brought him close to the existentialists.