Słowiański dualizm w Balladach i romansach Mickiewicza
Slavic Dualism in Mickiewicz’s Ballads and Romances

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the relation between history and folklore in the development of Mickiewicz’s philosophy of history. The author demonstrates the Lelewel taught the Romanticks to understand history as a collection of accidental forces, as well as that it is possible to see through history’s intentness, interpreted as a moral developmental tendency. According to the author, Mickiewicz found the folklore equivalent of history’s intentness: uprightness. In this Mickiewiczian understanding of folklore, two relictual structures of mythology are depicted: Polesian dualism and a psychomachia based on the ancient dualism between the Iranian “asza“ (that which is upright) and “drug“ (that which is inappropriate).

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