Lubecka, J., & Zakrzewski, M. (2023). Polityka historyczna. Seria „Słowniki Społeczne”. W. Pasierbek & B. Szlachta (Red.). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ignatianum w Krakowie [recenzja]
Lubecka, J., & Zakrzewski, M. (2023). Historical Politics. 'Social Dictionaries' Series. W. Pasierbek & B. Szlachta (Eds.). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ignatianum w Krakowie [book review]

Summary/Abstract: With the advent of the political and systemic transformation in Poland, the issue of historical politics returned to favor in Polish humanities and social sciences. The narrative about the past of Poland, Poles, and — more broadly — Europe and Europeans gained a utilitarian dimension. The discourse on historical politics appeared in the public sphere and was continued — as Katarzyna Kącka from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń aptly notes — on at least three levels: political, intellectual, and academic (Kącka, 2015, p. 60). Initially, unfortunately, the debate on historical politics was dominated by people from the world of politics. Through media coverage, one could get the — quite justified — impression that the other two, mutually intertwining, intellectual and academic formats ceded the field to politicians. The latter, moreover, often basing themselves on an — improperly understood — historical politics, built their own narratives meant to serve immediate political purposes, while disregarding national interests....

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