@ARTICLE{Rzepniewska-Kosińska_Anna_The_2024,
 author={Rzepniewska-Kosińska, Anna},
 number={No 3 (384)},
 journal={Ruch Literacki},
 pages={337-352},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2024},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka},
 publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki},
 abstract={This article is concerned with the status of the body in Juliusz Słowacki’s speculative philosophy (Genesis from the Spirit). Its aim is to introduce an important clarification into the dominant view of Słowacki’s approach, which, it is generally believed, regards the mortal body as a prison-house of the spirit and a material drag on the progress to salvation. However, a close reading of some passages from the Spirit King, backed by quotations from his philosophical writings allows us to posit an opposite view, i.e. that the body can be a shelter for the indwelling spirit. This, nonetheless, does not invalidate the strictures of the Platonic formula. The body offers us a place of refuge from the excruciating spiritual pain, but at the cost of blocking our contact with the fullness of reality and making us dependent on imperfect senses. The picture is complicated further by scientific progress with its promises of making our lives safer and more comfortable (i.e. more protected). In all, we may conclude that Słowacki is not only ready to acknowl-edge the paradoxical condition of human body but also to grant it an indispensable function in the anthropological model underpinning the Genesis from the Spirit.},
 type={Artykuł},
 title={The body’s protective function in Juliusz Słowacki’s speculative philosophy: An outline based on the poem Król-Duch (The Spirit King)},
 URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/134018/2024-03-RL-03.pdf},
 keywords={Polish literature of the 19th century, Romanticism, philosophy of art, spirit and matter, Genesis from the Spirit, Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849)},
}