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Polish culture: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) (6630 words) |
 | Witkiewicz believed that universal equality, borne on the shoulders of inevitable social revolution, denoted the eradication of culture based on individualism and of metaphysics. |
| Witkiewicz's protagonists are beset by troubles and ensnared by their efforts to feel the strangeness of existence. |
| Witkacy was the son of Stanislaw Witkiewicz, an exceptional art critic, painter, creator of the "Zakopane Style" in architecture and handicrafts, and a propagator of Realism in the visual arts. |
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Stanislaw I. Witkiewicz (1502 words) |
| Witkiewicz was a radical critic of bourgeois society and the kind of social existence generated by capitalism, which he feared would lead to the complete dehumanisation of social life and a growing totalitarianism, with the consequent annihilation of the individual personality. |
| It also marks the end of philosophy, its suicide: this is the negative result of his diagnosis of the growing mechanisation of life, the crisis of the individual in contemporary society, increasingly threatened by the advance of uniformity and democratic homologation, the greatest embodiment of which was for him Socialism. |
| With his ontology his intention was to construct a system that would unite all the individual visions and partial truths of other philosophical viewpoints, especially psychologism and physicalism, thanks to the inescapable, unshakeable assumption of the totality of existence: "I start from the hitherto undifferentiated concept of Being in general". |
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