Philosophy and romantic nationalism : the case of Poland

By Andrzej Walicki. First Edition Published By Oxford University Press In 1982--cip T.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Philosophy and Romantic Nationalism The Case of Poland ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE— THE MAIN PATTERNS OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THOUGHT OF THE POLISH NATIONAL-LIBERATION MOVEME... I— The Legacy and Historical Vicissitudes of the Democracy of the Gentry II— Republicanism Versus Monarchism III— The Idea of Property and the Peasant Question 1— The Changing Functions of Physiocratic Tradition 2— From Radical Democracy to Agrarian Socialism 3— Millenarian Socialists IV— The Meanings of the National Idea 1— 'Political' and 'Cultural' Nation 2— National Missions and Romantic Universalism 3— 'Nationalist International' and Morality in Politics PART TWO— IN SEARCH OF A 'NATIONAL PHILOSOPHY' I— Introductory Remarks II— Predecessors 1— The Beginnings of 'Philosophical Romanticism' 2— Hoene-Wronski*: Discovery of the Absolute, National Missions and Eschatological Destinies of Mank... 3— The First Polish Hegelians and the Main Centres of the Philosophical Movement of the Forties III— August Cieszkowski 1— Biographical Note 2— Philosophy of Action 3— Philosophy of God IV— Bronislaw Trentowski 1— Biographical Note 2— Universal and National Philosophy 3— The Idea of God-Manhood in Religion, Pedagogics, and Politics 4— Lessons from National History V— Karol Libelt 1— Biographical Note 2— The Idea of Nation and the Conception of National Philosophy 3— The German 'Autocracy of Reason' and the Slavonic 'Philosophy of Imagination' 4— Democratic Nationalism and Aesthetics VI— Henryk Kamienski* 1— Biographical Note 2— Political Economy and the Absolute 3— Epistemology of History 4— Social Philosophy, Revolution, and the Conception of Nation VII— Edward Dembowski 1— Biographical Note 2— The Philosophy of Creativity 3— Socialism and Agrarian Revolution 4— The Idea of Nation and the Philosophy of Polish History VIII— Conservative Critics of Philosophy 1— In Defence of the Church 2— Count Henryk Rzewuski and the Paradoxes of Traditionalism PART THREE— NATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS MESSIANISM I— Introductory Remarks. The Native and the Foreign Sources of Polish Romantic Messianism II— Adam Mickiewicz 1— The Books of the Polish Pilgrims 2— From National to Religious Messianism 3— Tradition, Prophecy and Charismatic Power 4— Mickiewicz's Messianism Seen from the French and Russian Perspectives III— Juliusz Slowacki* and Zygmunt Krasinski* 1— The Metaphysics of Revolutionary Heroism 2— Messianism and Counter-Revolution IV— Messianism Versus Philosophy 1— Cybernetics Against Prophecy 2— Cieszkowski's Philosophy of Revelation 3— The Springtime of the Peoples: Test and Watershed V— A Critic of Messianism: Cyprian Norwid PART FOUR— CHANGING PERSPECTIVES I— The Legacy of Political Romanticism and the Emergence of Integral Nationalism II— Marx, Engels, and the Polish Question 1— A Review of Some Essentials 2— Marx, Engels, and the Historical Evolution of the Polish Question 3— Peculiar Features of Marx's and Engels's Theory of the Nation 4— Marx, Engels, and Romantic Polish Nationalism 5— A Few Remarks on Post-Marxian Marxism NOTES Introduction Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four LIST OF WORKS CITED A— Primary Sources B— Secondary Sources INDEX A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z A study of the origins, ideas, main events and principal characters in the Polish romantic nationalist movement between 1830 and 1863 which greatly influenced modern European nationalism. This text should be of interest to Slavists and historians of philosophical and social ideas.