Dr Fryderyk Kwiatkowski is a researcher focussed on the reception of “Gnosticism”—a collection of late ancient religious and philosophical movements (in)famous for a nihilistic view of the world—in Euro-American intellectual history and popular culture. He is interested in studying ways in which intellectual and cultural traditions of the past are (re-)used and (re-)enacted to address contemporary concerns.

Areas of interest: Film and religion, Film and philosophy, Modern intellectual and cultural history, Reception of late antiquity, Cognitive literary studies

Kwiatkowski, F. (2018). A Critical Analysis of the Concept of “Gnosticism” in Polish Literary Studies. Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 52(1), 50–66. https://doi.org/10.1163/22102396-05201003

Kwiatkowski, F. (2016). About the Concept of “Gnosticism” in Fiction Studies. CLCWeb : Comparative Literature and Culture, 18(3). https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2997

Kwiatkowski, F. (2020). Eric Voegelin and Gnostic Hollywood: Cinematic Portrayals of the Immanentization of the Eschaton in Dark City (1998) and Pleasantville (1998). Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies, 5(2), 220–242. https://doi.org/10.1163/2451859X-12340094

Kwiatkowski, F. (2019). The Others (2001) by Alejandro Amenábar in the Light of Valentinian Thought. CLCWeb : Comparative Literature and Culture, 21(6). https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3200