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• Title:
  “Man is something that shall be overcome“. The histori-osophical discourse of 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Creator:
  Klejsa, Konrad
• Description:
  Drawing upon classic works on Kubrick’s 2001, the author ponders various strategies of interpretation which have been adopted to decipher the film’s discourse. The title category of historiosophy indicates one of the possible interpretational paths: the one associated with the Nietzschean notion of humankind stuck in a liminal stage between an animal and the overman. The author claims that such an understanding was typical of the late 1960s, and he pursues his argument with a close analysis of several sequences from the film, focusing on the formal devices which present the human protagonists as weak and lackluster, while the animal, the technological and the extraterrestrial characters are depicted as vital and irrepressible.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Konrad Klejsa;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Date:
  2021.03.31
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Vol. 28 No. 37 (2020): Science Fiction: The Future is Present; 35-60;
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Tom 28 Nr 37 (2020): Science Fiction: The Future is Present; 35-60;
  2720-040X;
  1731-450X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/27636/25113
• Subject:
  Stanley Kubrick;
  2001: Space Odyssey;
  historiosophy;
  Friedrich Nietzsche
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/27636
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text