About the perspectives of perspectivism (transl. by Tadeusz Karłowicz)

Abstract

The article is a critical discussion of Arent van Nieukerken's work entitled The perspective character of the sacrum. Sketches about Norwid's Romanticism (Warszawa 2007). The work tries to reconstruct and describe the structure of the human experience of transcendence, the experience which, according to van Nieukerken, the author of Vade-mecum often makes the subject of his work. In this way the book introduces into Norwidology the category of “perspectiveness” understood both as a feature of man's existence, and as an idea regulating human cognition. The first three chapters of the work are devoted to the study of this category in Norwid's writings (in Quidam, Assunta and other poems), and the last two ones mainly discuss determinants of “the feeling of the world” in selected representatives of Polish Romanticism, and against this background they show how original the author of Promethidion was.