Adam Mickiewicz i porachunki z nowoczesnością
Adam Mickiewicz and the Matters of Modernity

Towards the Paradigm of Polish Politicality

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to Adam Mickiewicz’s political thought. Its chief thesis refers to the breakthrough that took place in his thought after the year 1831. The breakthrough entailed quitting from the vision of politics shaped within the framework of Enlightened modernity to develop a programme of Messianic politics anchored in modernity criticism. The change is presented as a paradigmatic choice, a choice of the only accessible tools to pursue politics; it became an exemplary, repeated until today motion of the Polish politics, breaking with modernity. The model proposed by Mickiewicz comprises criticism of liberal democracy, setting politics into religious and moral frame, national symbolic field, and treating politics as an agon.

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