@ARTICLE{Kuziak_Michał_Magnetyzm_2018, author={Kuziak, Michał}, number={No 2 (347)}, journal={Ruch Literacki}, howpublished={online}, year={2018}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka}, publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki}, abstract={This article examines two forms of 19th-century animal magnetism. The fi rst had its roots in early 19th-century Romanticism, the other fl ourished on the fringe of orthodox science and medicine in the last decades of the century. Common to both is a confl ation of scientifi c experimentation, hermetic thought and popular culture. Mesmerism represented a peculiar, excitingly unorthodox face of 19th-century modernity. Now largely discredited and forgotten, it fed on the contemporary enthusiasm for scientifi c discoveries and confi dence in the human ability to do virtually anything. What distinguished mesmerism from other vitalist theories was its claim to shift the boundary between physics and metaphysics.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Magnetyzm – dziwna nowoczesność}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/106964/PDF/MAGNETYZM%20%E2%80%93%20DZIWNA%20NOWOCZESNO%C5%9A%C4%86.pdf}, doi={10.24425/122698}, keywords={magnetyzm, nowoczesność, nauka, XIX wiek}, }