1st Edition

Transgressive Humanism in Mid-Socialist Poland

By Nina Seiler Copyright 2025
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on the often-overlooked middle period of socialism in 20th-century Poland, tracing the transgressive variations of humanist thought that emerged as forms of resistance amid the intellectual crisis of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It analyses how an upsurge in anti-Semitism and discourses of exclusion in the period stimulated environmental explorations beyond the hegemonic... Read more

1 Introduction

2 The mid-socialist atmosphere

3 On humanism in mid-socialist Poland

4 Socio-corporeal landscapes

Biography

Nina Seiler is a research associate at the Department of Performing Arts and Film of the Zurich University of the Arts, as well as chief editor of the feminist studies magazine Fem*Fem.