Filologia i nacjonalizm. Stanisław Pigoń jako ideolog kultury ludowo-narodowej
Philology and Nationalism: Stanisław Pigoń as an Ideologue of Folk and National Culture

Summary/Abstract: Wołowiec argues that Stanisław Pigoń’s work, which spans literary scholarship and criticism, feuilletons and memoirs, should be read as a ideologically coherent entity. Pigoń is mostly known as a positivist literary scholar with a lasting reputation as the most outstanding specialist on Mickiewicz, but Wołowiec portrays him as a paradigmatic twentieth-century ideologue who, through his (academic) work, actively participates in the ideological and political debates of his time. Wołowiec also outlines Pigoń’s antirevolutionary and nationalistic cultural programme aiming at integrating the Polish peasantry (the people) into the sphere of national culture, understood in essentialist (primordial) terms. The article also takes up the problem of Pigoń’s anti-Semitic engagement in the 1930s.

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