INSTYTUT LITERATUROZNAWSTWA I JĘZYKOZNAWSTWA

Studia Filologiczne UJK

Philological Studies

ISSN 2300-5459 e-ISSN 2450-0380

 

 

Author Marcin Kozera
Title Humanities of the aesthetic appearances and the issue of the weight of Borgesian “Library of Babel”
Keywords humanities, aesthetic, appearance, infinity, library, Babel, weight
Pages 97-108
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Volume 28

Summary

The aim of this article is to present the problem of the aesthetic appearance of the humanities and the potential of idea of the set of all minds. Category of weight is more important than category of lightness, because it touches on fundamental issues of being more clearly. The key concept is infinity as an opposition to the finite human imagination. Library of Babel is literary evidence of the impossibility of exceeding the borderlines of perception and expression of the fear of the paradoxes and unknown, which are best described by Borges. The lightness of culture can never make a man more aware of his place in the universe. Weight deep thinking – yes.