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Is the solemnity of no concern?

Author(s): Tomasz Żyro
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Security and defense
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: liberalism; sublimity; metaphysics; democracy
Summary/Abstract: A jubilee essay commemorating Prof. Stanisław Filipowicz as a serious student of political affairs can not be written in a kind of dry disquisitions on a chosen subject. If it depicted a problem in chiaroscuro style, it would quickly diminish the importance and scope of reflection, wherein Prof. Filipowicz took active part during his long and brilliant academic career. Light-and-shade effects are useful in a good rhetorical speech. A general concern dedicated to studying ideas and political ideas, particularly, needs shades. From the very nature of the essay, it is to be written in a tone of sfumato, as Bolesław Miciński once prescribes. The essay focuses upon varied, to say differently, the Protheusian shapes that the contemporary culture took, deeply penetrated by liberal ideas and practices.

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