Świątynia nauki, fundament demokracji czy fabryka specjalistów? Józef Chałasiński i powojenne spory o ideę uniwersytetu
A Temple of Knowledge, a Foundation of Democracy or an Expert’s Factory? Józef Chałasiński and the Postwar Discussion about the Idea of University

Summary/Abstract: First postwar years in the history of Poland was crucial time of doubts and hopes for building a new world and a new society. It is worth remembering, that in the first years it was not known how the history of Poland is going to be shaped and many intellectuals believed to have an unique chance to make a world better place. The interwar academic tradition was confronted with ideas of building a new type of university – the modernization dreams took many forms, occurring to be strong factor of a split between radical and moderate option. Soon those dreams have met with brutal reality and universities were transformed to important places in communist state, where national history, ideology and future elite was reproduced and shaped. We would like to focus on personalities of Józef Chałasiński and Tadeusz Kotarbiński, whose biographies met in the city of Lodz in 1945 – the place where new university was being built for the new times. Analyzing press materials, official statements and scientific papers we aim to reconstruct models of university – models as propositions of creating a new academia in a changing sociopolitical frames.

• Details
• Contents