Próba filozofii z ducha słowiańskiego. Biograficzne i historyczne aspekty pracy filozoficznej Bronisława Ferdynanda Trentowskiego w Badenii

Abstract

Bronisław Trentowski, a former officer in the November Uprising, was given the opportunity to study and work in the field of philosophy in Freiburg, Baden, after 1831. He set himself the ambitious task of creating an original Polish philosophical system with a universal dimension. Its source was to be a combination of western philosophical thought and tradition with the poetic Slavic spirit. The person of the philosopher himself, especially the language and style of his writings, was the medium and the coherence here. Trentowski intended to philosophize polish, using, at least at the beginning, the German language. It was the issue of language that became the focal point, but also the most problematic point of his philosophical career and personal biography. The article sketches, mainly in the biographical and historical context, the genesis of this ambitious philosophical project, its evaluation and controversy that it aroused, both among Polish and German compatriots of the philosopher.