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 ...

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 author interrogates the relationship between the author and the reader within the context of the process of creating the modernist vision of the New Man. What is the degree of activity on both sides of the equation in ...

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 ...

This chapter focuses on the process of the creation of a “new mythology” of the first French settlers of Québec in Fréchette’s epic nineteenth-century poem. Composed in the poetic style of his time, the poem successively ...

The author considers the origins of the contestation of the “old” man that gained ground in Europe and the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Showing the stages of the transformations that took place ...

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 ...

Taking the concept of human nature as a starting point, the author discusses the problem of the so-called New Man. He shows that the relation: “human nature – civilization” is dialectical in character. The first part of ...

This chapter considers the idea of the new man through the prism of two texts by the Italian Neoplatonic philosopher Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494): Oration on the Dignity of Man and Heptaplus. The points of reference ...