Społecznikowski krąg współpracy. O Stefanii Skwarczyńskiej w międzywojennej Łodzi
The Cooperation of Social Activists in Pre-war Łódź

Author(s): Tomasz Majewski
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: applied literature; a thought collective; cooperation; humanities; The Free Polish University; Stefania Skwarczyńska
Summary/Abstract: The Free Polish University was the first institution in the interwar period create possibility of practicing the humanities in Łódź as an industrial city. Stefania Skwarczyńska's activity in Łódź in those years shows that the new styles of theoretical thinking and forms of shaping the research community that were formed at that time differed from the academical patterns typical of nowadays university centers. The community of teachers and independent researchers that emerged then would build the University of Łódź from scratch after 1945, transferring the ideas of the "thought collective" into the post-war period. Skwarczyńska's direct collaborators during this period included, among others: Tadeusz Czapczyński, Wilhelm Fallek and Zygmunt Hajkowski, whose works had much in common with the idea of "applied literature" developed by Skwarczyńska.

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