294 Pages
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Central European University Press
Based on solid research, this erudite study is a first attempt at presenting a comprehensive analysis of nineteenth-century Polish liberalism. Polish liberal tradition has generally been considered weak or even nonexistent. Janowski, on the other hand, argues that nineteenth-century Poland inherited a strong protoliberal tradition from the nobility-based democracy, and that in the mid-nineteenth... Read more
Introduction and Acknowledgements, Chapter 1 Two Sources of Liberal Thought, Chapter 2 The Rise and Decline of Enlightened Liberality, Chapter 3 Romantic Liberalism, Chapter 4 Liberalism as the Ideology of the Intelligentsia, Chapter 5 The Rise of Positivism, Chapter 6 Positivism under Attack, Chapter 7 In a World of Alien Ideals, Conclusion, Terms and Currents, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Maciej Janowski is at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His main field of interest is the intellectual and political history of the nineteenth century in Poland and East–Central Europe.
