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Andrzej Walicki jako historyk idei
Andrzej Walicki as a historian of ideas

Author(s): Marek Kornat
Subject(s): History, History of ideas, Recent History (1900 till today), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Andrzej Walicki; history of ideas; Messianism; ideas of the nation; Russia; totalitarianism

Summary/Abstract: The protagonist of this article is Andrzej Walicki, undoubtedly the most creative personality in the circle of the so-called Warsaw School of the history of ideas. The following reflections aim to analyse his contribution to the Polish historiography of ideas and present the main fields of his study together with the most significant achievements in the history of Russian and Polish thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the theory of totalitarianism and the history of Marxism.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 9-41
  • Page Count: 41
  • Language: Polish
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