MIĘDZY KONSERWATYZMEM A REWOLUCJĄ KULTURALNĄ. FLORIANA ZNANIECKIEGO WIZJE KULTURY I WYCHOWANIA
BETWEEN CONSERVATISM AND CULTURAL REVOLUTION: FLORIAN ZNANIECKI’S VISIONS OF CULTURE AND EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: In Znaniecki’s writings one can find two different – actually irreconcilable – visions of education and cultural development. This distinction is a certain reconstruction and inter- pretation; Znaniecki himself clearly did not recognize this dichotomy and the contradictions to which it leads, treating them as elements of a single intellectual construction. The first vision of education is common-sense and evolutionary, even conservative – having diagnosed the positive and negative sides of the existing culture, we try to develop the former and gradually reduce the latter.In the second case, we start from the conviction that a truly new culture can only begin after “erasing” the old one, not evolutionarily, but with one sudden revolutionary leap. This convic- tion inevitably leads to the conclusion that the old culture by the very fact of its existence is an obstacle to the emergence of something radically different. Thus, education, which is the primary means of building a “civilization of the future,” takes on the character of a cultural revolution.

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