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 ...