Glosa do Małej fenomenologii miłości Władysława Stróżowskiego

The problem of love is something Stróżewski grapples with in, but also beyond, his essay A Small Phenomenology of Love. It is a theme that appears in various contexts throughtout his ouvre. He rarely speaks of it directly, but discusses it through references to various poets, such as Leśmian, Norwid, Sęp-Szarzyński, and Miłosz; as well as to philosophers, both ancient, like Plato and Dionysius the Areopagite, and modern, like Jolanta Brach-Czaina. As a result, a very broad picture emerges which combines, on the one hand, the specific, human experience of love with all of its drama and the whole gamut of beautiful and difficult emotions, and, on the other, the metaphysical and religious dimensions of love, love identified with the Absolute. Love, beauty, and being, according to Stróżewski and the tradition he continually referes to, turn out to be inseperable. The experience of love is analogous to that of artistic creation. What they have in common is their involvement with beauty, creativity, and their final goal – participation in being.