Czasopismo "Facta Ficta Journal" by Piotr Solka
Facta Ficta Journal, 2023
The theme of death, like the experience of dying itself in Latin civilisation, has played a huge ... more The theme of death, like the experience of dying itself in Latin civilisation, has played a huge role in shaping consciousness and culture over the centuries. The aim of the chapter is to present the most important models of death and their relationship to particular eras from the Middle Ages to modernity. To do so, the author draws on the synthesis of the French anthropologist Phillipe Ariès, who in his work: Images of Man and Death, shows a cross-sectional view of the problem of the relationship of the human individual to the end of his own existence. The article highlights the collective consciousness as a strong factor that decisively shapes individual images of death. It was built up by society' s attitude to suchphenomena as the self-consciousness of death, the belief in continued life, the conviction of the presence of evil in the existence of thanatos, as well as the fear of the annihilation of one' s own person. The beliefs and possibilities of the society of the time are confronted with the thanatos experience, which creates models: self death, ars moriendi, wild death, the cementary cult in the 19th century and deconstructions of the presence of death in the Aleksander Halecki, student teologii Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie; do jego zainteresowań należy rozumienie zjawisk antropologia religii, historia średniowiecza z uwzględnieniem kultury biznatyjskiej, symbolika obrzędów religijnych kościoła tradycji zachodniej, a także sztuka polskiego modernizmu XX wieku.
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Czasopismo "Facta Ficta Journal" by Piotr Solka