„Refleksje w zawieszeniu” – źródła i początki myśli Władysława Stróżewskiego

The article discusses a series of nine short essays by Władysław Stróżewski published at the beginning of the 70s in the “Znak” monthly. They all revolve around anthropological and axiological issues, and they all follow a similar framework: the author begins with a question or a problem, e.g., the choice of values, situational involvement, freedom and limitation, faith, despair and hope, and shows how through a dialectical search and inner transformations a new perspective opens up onto the Absolute. Similar themes can also be found in Stróżewski’s later works. Even the use of the dialectical method reappears in his book Dialektyka twórczości (Dialectics of Creativity). The questions of the meaning of reality, the logos, and faith all continually make their mark throughout his oeuvre. All these themes, together with those absent from “Suspended Thoughts”, i.e. art and beauty, reappear in the extensive interview published in 2017, Miłość i nicość (Love and Nothingness).