Domknięcie oświecenia, czyli o miejscu polskiego pozytywizmu w strukturze nowoczesności
Closing Enlightment, or on the Place of Polish Positivism in the Structure of Modernity

Summary/Abstract: CLOSING THE ENLIGHTMENT, OR ON THE PLACE OF POLISH POSITIVISM IN THE STRUCTURE OF MODERNITY Summary The article discusses the interpretation of the worldview model of the Polish Positivism, which is perceived as a completion of the Enlightment. The core theoretical construct is the modernity, understood as the internally aporetic socio-cultural formation born in the middle of the 18 century. Within this formation the Enlightment-positivist model was th s of primary importance, prevailing in the second half of the 19th century to become eroded by the end of it. In the article the attempt is being made to show the development dynamic of 19th century modernity by presenting various aspects of this reality: that of ideas and worldview, the philosophical, the anthropological and cultural one, the metascientific, the methodological and the esthetic-critical. The subject of analysis are the works in various genres of prominent writers belonging to the positivist generation: Ochorowicz, Prus, Orzeszkowa. Trans. M. Bucholc

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