H. Böll and J. Dombrowski. Images of Nonviolence

The history of civilization since the twentieth century is considered to be spiritless. But the spiritual and the non-spiritual always go hand in hand. Impact invariably gives rise to equal resistance. The spiritual achievements of the twentieth century were doomed to become extremely powerful. It remains to bring them out of the shadows. The author of this book is interested in the writers of the spiritual worldview: G. Böll, whose phenomenon can be considered the redemption of German guilt, and Y. Dombrowski, a real martyr, redeemer of the madness of the Soviet era. Their work is viewed in the context of the ideas of non-violence - the international movement of the 20th century, noted by the geniuses of M. Gandhi, M.L. King and other prominent personalities. The work, written at the junction of the fields of humanitarian knowledge (here and artistic images, and philosophical concepts, and modern socio-cultural and political studies of an applied nature), retains the internal integrity and consistency of presentation due to the common belonging of the compared phenomena to a single semantic field of ethical culture. This is a hymn to the spiritual basis of personality from the perspective of reflections on aesthetics. The book is a return to the spiritual heritage of the twentieth century, allowing a deeper understanding of the present and moving into the future.