This text presents the vision of the new man in the first novel written by the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936), but not published until 1994. Contrary to the dominant critical approaches that mine Unamuno’s ...

In the process of implementing their anthropological project, that is creating a new, perfect human being, the Bolsheviks sought inspiration from modern science and psychology, especially Freudian psychoanalysis, which was ...

As a Russian exile, Nabokov was wholly opposed to the Soviet ideology of the “new man.” The theme of memory, essential to his Russian and American novels, may be interpreted as his personal answer and poetical antidote to ...

Although by the second half of the twentieth century organ transplantation had become a standard medical procedure, in late-twentieth- and early twenty-first century films and literature it is still closely aligned with ...

T. S. Eliot’s reference to the “inner voice” in The Function of Criticism is the starting point for this essay. For Eliot, the inner voice, or individual set of beliefs, amounts to a contradiction between the writer’s ...

From the first decades of the twentieth century, the biblical myth of the new man and the new world has been at times the “vehicle,” at times the “stowaway,” of political ideology: the dream of communist society reactivates ...

The author examines anthropological issues in Miron Białoszewski’s Wiwisekcja. Her reflections on the play’s vision of the new man are grounded in the theoretical issues introduced into humanistic discourse by Ernst Cassirer ...

The essay revisits Thomas More’s Utopia – the foundational text of the entire genre of utopian and dystopian fiction. It explores Utopia’s ambiguous and somewhat inconsistent view of human nature. On the one hand, More ...

Prezentowana rozprawa pt. Dialogiczny wymiar homilii po Soborze Watykańskim II podejmuje problematykę teologii przepowiadania w ramach homiletyki fundamentalnej i formalnej. Celem prowadzonego procesu badawczego jest ...