Browsing by Subject "illness"

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Existential experience like illness: a case study of Gilbert Jonas
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Wójs, Paweł
The works of the philosophers of existence often address illness and health in the context of a (difficult to describe) existential experience. In this paper I will argue the following thesis: one of the strategies chosen by the authors whose aim is to characterise an existential experience is to present it by referring to the category of illness. This strategy involves, first and foremost, presenting the similarity between the existential experience and an illness, while at the same time, emphasising that the existential experience is not an illness (although of course, the existential experience may be a consequence of experiencing an illness). To support my basic thesis, I will draw from the works of Albert Camus, Lev Shestov and other philosophers of existence, as well as from literary works. In the article, I will provide an interpretation of Albert Camus' short story »Jonas, or the Artist at Work«. I will discuss the basic characteristics of the existential experience, focusing on those that are similar to the symptoms of illness. I will also formulate a number of general remarks which concern the existential experience.
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The image of illness in Veit Stoss's works of art
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2019) Dębicki, Jacek
The article takes up the issue of ideological connections between the philosophy of man developed in the 15th century by the Cracovian masters from the Universitatis Cracoviensis and Cracovian Gothic art, above all the sculptures created by Veit Stoss in his Cracovian period. The German master-carver showed in his Cracovian Altarpiece a vast range of individual portrait-studies, realistic and naturalistic in character. During the Cracovian period some essential transformations took place in Veit Stoss's oeuvre. He created naturalistic portrait-studies unknown in the European art of the time, depicting even pathological changes, such as cancerous skin lesions, which Stoss perceived on the human body. We have known – on the basis of archival sources – that Veit Stoss maintained friendly contacts with Jan of Głogów, author of the treatise <i>Physionomia hincinde ex illustribus scriptoribus per venerabilem virum magistrum Joannem Glogoviensem diligentissime recol lecta</i>, printed in Kraków in 1518. I wish to prove that the content of this treatise – including the issue of skin diseases – found its reflection in the art of one of the leading sculptors of the late medieval Europe.