Gombrowicz postmodernistą? Uwagi o filozoficznych kontekstach Kosmosu Witolda Gombrowicza

Abstract

The subject matter of the text is a philosophical thought in Kosmos by Witold Gombrowicz and its links with the 19th and 20th centuries philosophy. There are discussed convergent reflections of the Polish writer with A. Schopenhauer’s ideas (pessimism and existentialism) and F. Nietzsche’s thoughts (relativism, atheism and anti- fundamentalism), as well as the differences among them. While discussing the tentative issue of Gombrowicz’s forerunning ideology preceding post-modernist philosophy, the author draws attention to the discrepancies between the ideas of the author of Kosmos and ideologists of post-modernism. These discrepancies consist in various interpretations of the philosophical status of an individual, among other things (Gombrowicz defends independence of an individual.) On the other hand, the Polish writer anticipated certain aspects of philosophical thought, for example, R. Rortyc, J.F. Loytard, and among those the idea of privatisation of philosophy, scepticism towards the possibility of rational interpretation of reality, doubts about the too ambitious cognitive and moral projects. In his philosophical declaration the author of Kosmos avoids radical and extreme approaches of post-modernist theoreticians.