Humanistyka uniwersytecka w Warszawie dawno temu, coraz dawniej...
University Humanities in Warsaw Long Time Ago, Longer and Longer...

Rev: Joanna Schiller-Walicka, Nauki humanistyczne na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim. Pierwsze stulecie 1816–1915. – Nauki humanistyczne na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim. Drugie stulecie 1915–2016. Warszawa 2020.

Summary/Abstract: The essay is written on the margin of two volumes devoted to the humanities in a series of books published to commemorate the 200 Years of the University of Warsaw. The author discusses the issues placed in the articles and interviews with professors that both volumes contain. His special interest is placed on the shaping of scientific reflection as a separate discipline of thinking, as well as on longevity of some issues and on lessening the importance of other ones. He is preoccupied with the role of the University of Warsaw as, on the one hand, a tool used by the Russians in Poland’s Russification and, on the other hand, with the place of the university in national life. He also focuses his attention on the conditions of conducting studies in the circumstances the scholars experienced and the university’s functioning against the political context. Each of the aforementioned matters reflected the expansion of individual academic disciplines developed at the university. A review of the disciplines as research and didactic fields is intrinsic value of the volumes in question.

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