Witkacego filozofia kultury. Próba odczytania z perspektywy szkoły frankfurckiej

The article aims to discuss the Witkacy's philosophy of culture and save it in the concept of cultural industry developed by Horkheimer and Adorno. In the first part the Pole’s philosophy of culture is reconstructed, with particular emphasis on mechanisms of collapse manifested in challenging the religion, art and philosophy. The next section is devoted to the idea of the subjective reason, which Germans perceive as a cause of cultural industry. Then mass culture is described and analyzed including the thoughts of philosophers mentioned.