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Record Nr.

UNINA9910485585403321

Autore

Micińska Magdalena

Titolo

At the crossroads 1865-1918 Part 3 : a history of the Polish intelligentsia / / Magdalena Micińska ; edited by Jerzy Jedlicki ; translated by Tristan Korecki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2015

Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : , : Peter Lang Edition, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-653-99806-9

3-653-04954-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik, , 2191-3528 ; ; Band 9

Disciplina

305.5520943809034

Soggetti

Intellectuals - Poland - History

Poland Intellectual life

Poland History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Table of contents; Introduction: The Black Gown; Chapter 1: The situation of the Polish intelligentsia after the January Insurrection; 1. Professional development opportunities; 2. The development of capitalism and opportunities for the intelligentsia; 3. Liberal professions; 4. New sources of the intelligentsia; Chapter 2: Styles of life; 1. The financial and property elites; 2. The provincial intelligentsia and the 'intelligent proletariat'; 3. An artistic bohemia; Chapter 3: The development conditions of a national culture; 1. The conditions of scientific and artistic work

2. Inter-Partition contacts3. Knowledge and talents leaking out; Chapter 4: The ideological debates of the 2nd half of the 19th century; 1. The Galician milieus: the birth of the Stańczyk faction and the Krakow historical school. The Democrats and Positivists of Krakow; 2. Warsaw Positivism; 3. The means of social influence; 4. The self-stereotype of the Polish intelligentsia in the 2nd half of the 19th century; Chapter 5: At the century's turn; 1. The anti-Positivistic breakthrough;  socialism and nationalism; 2. Renovation movements in



the late 19th/early 20th century

3. Generational differences4. Promoting Polish education in society; 5. The Revolution of 1905-7; 6. Being a Polish twentieth-century intellectual in Poznań, Krakow and Warsaw; Chapter 6: The Polish intelligentsia in Europe. The influence of pan-European trends on Poland; 1. Polish milieus in foreign lands; 2. Young Poland: between community commitment and decadence; 3. The First World War; Conclusion; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. The third part deals with the period between 1865 and 1918. It is the period of numerical growth of the intelligentsia, growth of its self-consciousness and at the same time of growing struggles and rivalries of various political streams. The study concludes with the moment when Poland regained the independence that had been lost in 1795. The work combines social and intellectual history, tracing both the formation of the intelligentsia as a social s