Ziemia obiecana. O dążeniu do restytucji ideału republikańskiego
The Promised Land: On the Striving for the Restitution of the Republican Ideal

Summary/Abstract: The article concentrates on the problem of republican nostalgia which is approached as one of the characteristic symptoms of late modernity crisis. Highlighting the durability of republican pattern it raises at the same time doubts which are contained in the notion of “conditions of possibility”. The doubts are related to the visible tensions between republican hopes and the failures of consensus politics, losing ground under growing pressure of social unrest and ideological conflicts. The basic question is following: is political change – embracing the notion of common sense – at all possible in the world driven by the energy of disruption.

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