Co nam po bece z Dmowskiego?
Why Must We Scoff at Dmowski?

Summary/Abstract: Tomasz Kowalski reviews the play The Thoughts of a Modern Pole: Roman Dmowski (An Unauthorized Biography) directed by Grzegorz Laszuk (Polski Theater in Poznań, premiere: 11.11.2016). Kowalski notes that the artists’ strategies in constructing statements on a Polish nationalist authority-figure – Roman Dmowski – mainly involve slapstick and ribbing. He writes that this approach stands in contradiction to Hannah Arendt’s philosophy, to which the artists allude, and voices the concern that taking a whimsical approach to nationalist attitudes precludes us from seeing them as a real threat, making them no more than the butt of a joke.

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