Roman Pollak i jego perspektywa nauki w II Rzeczypospolitej
Roman Pollak and his Views on Sciencein the Second Republic of Poland

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an analysis of the views on science held by Roman Pollak, a prominent literary historian of the interwar period. The source material consists of Pollak’s texts published in “Nauka Polska. Jej potrzeby, organizacja i rozwój” (Polish science. Its needs, organisation and develop-ment) issued by the Józef Mianowski Fund and his longer article Nauka na Powszechnej Wystawie Krajowej (Science at the Polish General Exhibi-tion) written around the inauguration of the Polish General Exhibition in Poznan in 1929. The article presents a portrait of a scholar who strongly emphasised the role of creative processes in science, was significantly in-fluenced by the centralising reforms of science in Italy in the interwar pe-riod and who projected a vision of the humanities focused on synthetic analyses serving as the core of studies in a given area.

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