Rhetoric and Utopia. Ludwik Królikowski: A Study on the Structure of his Thought

Abstract

An article concerns on the structure of Ludwik Królikowski’s thought. In the first part, I recapitulate the current state of research and I point that many authors had troubles with the categorization of Królikowski. In second part I claim that religious metaphors in his thought were to serve its political effectiveness, but eventually these means of expression have become not just only rhetoric, but absolute metaphors. In sequence, I scrutinize the utopian rhetoric in Królikowski’s thought in terms of the innovative forms of these imaginations. For example, he didn’t divide the ideal world into spheres of nature and of culture, but he tried to show the forces of nature as cooperating with social movements.