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Limiting Privilege
State socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, and electrify cities—all within a single lifetime. Central to these initiatives was extending educational opportunities to the working class and creating a vision of an egalitarian socialist university that offered advancement for all. Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland traces the possibilities and limits of this goal by looking at a model socialist university established in 1945 in the working-class city of Łódź, Poland. Initially a flagship project of socialist modernization, the university tried to offer social advancement by privileging admission for peasant and working-class children, but these efforts were often fought by the elite who sought to preserve their privilege. By looking at first-generation students, intelligentsia faculty, and an industrial city, Limiting Privilege explores a complex story about utopian visions, failed aspirations, and reluctant academia.
Towards a History of Linguistics in Poland
Apart from the names of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845 1929), Miko?aj Kruszewski (1851 1887), and, later, Jerzy Kury?owicz (1895 1978), Polish linguists and Polish linguistics generally have been little known in the West. The first two were mentioned with approval by Saussure in an unpublished paper, and this reference was picked up by Roman Jakobson and others many years later. Kury?owicz, for his part, made himself well known in the West through his important work as Indo-Europeanist, even Semiticist, and as a general linguist.The present volume is a first attempt to broaden the perspectives on the Polish contribution to linguistics both inside and outside of Poland during the past centur...
Poland From Partitions to EU Accession
This book surveys Poland’s move from being a post-feudal, backward, peripheral country to being a modern, capitalist, European state: from the partition of the commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania to the abolishment of ‘second serfdom’; late industrialization to state socialism; post-partition fragmentation to post-Second World War westward dislocation; and from the ‘Solidarność’ movement to accession into the European Union. Could Poland really be considered an ‘underdeveloped’ nation throughout the last 200 years? What factors contributed to its ‘backwardness’? Has Poland yet managed to catch up with the West? This book, the first overview of the modern economic history of Poland to be published in English, addresses these and many other questions crucial for developing our understanding of the economic history of modern Central-Eastern Europe. The economic development of Poland is analyzed through data and statistics, as well as through analysis of the ideas that paved the way for the politics of economic and social modernization.
Doktryna Polaków
Książka prezentuje pionierską, oryginalną rekonstrukcję doktryny politycznej zbiorowego podmiotu, jakim jest społeczeństwo polskie. Stanowi ona rezultat połączenia warsztatów naukowych klasycznej filozofii politycznej i współczesnej empirycznej socjologii. Oddaje poglądy i refleksje dotyczące człowieka, społeczeństwa, własności, władzy i państwa, jakie Polacy ujawniają w szeroko zakrojonych fokusowych badaniach jakościowych i w ankietowych badaniach ilościowych. Obraz przekonań, jaki się z nich wyłania, ma charakter pluralistyczny, a jednocześnie odzwierciedla silne dążenie do harmonii w postrzeganiu, porządkowaniu i przeżywaniu świata zjawisk społecznych i politycznych. Łączy w sobie głęboko zakorzenione przesłanki konserwatywne, republikańskie, właściwe katolickiej nauce społecznej, z rozwiązaniami typowymi dla klasycznego liberalizmu i demokratycznego socjalizmu.
Jewish Culture and Urban Form
Across a range of disciplines, urban morphology has offered lenses through which we can read the city. Reading the urban form, when conflated with ethnographic studies, enables us to return to past situations and recreate the long-gone everyday life. Urbanscapes – the artefacts of urban life – have left us the story portrayed in the pages of this book. The notions of time and space contribute to depicting the Jewish-Polish culture in central Poland before the Holocaust. The research proves that Jewish society in pre-Holocaust Poland was an example of self-organising complexity. Through bottom-up activities, it had a significant impact on the unique character of the spaces left behind. Se...
Polonia illustrata
Autor prezentowanej książki, wydobywając ze skarbca pamięci okryte patyną wieków dzieła jednego z najwybitniejszych polskich siedemnastowiecznych kaznodziei, historiografów, a zarazem polihistorów – Szymona Starowolskiego – zaprasza do wspólnego myślenia i zamyślenia nad literacką sztuką uprawiania i pojmowania „panegiryczności”. […] Uważna lektura pracy dowodzi, iż wyszła ona spod ręki humanisty, którego kompetencji z rozmaitych dziedzin – m.in. w zakresie problemów europejskiej historii literatury dawnej, retoryki, filologii starożytnej, historii idei, niuansów szesnasto- i siedemnastowiecznej poetyki, zagadnień estetyki wczesnonowożytnej, a nawet socjo...
