O slawistyce, myśleniu i polityce
Slavonic Studies, Thinking and Politics

Summary/Abstract: Over the past quarter of a century Slavonic Studies, a geo-linguistic research and academic specialism, has gone through a series of major shifts, primarily affecting academic teaching. The multi-disciplinary nature of Slavonic Studies and its openness to new methodological inspirations have also repeatedly reinvigorated the discipline by producing changes in the nature of research into Slavonic languages, literatures and cultures. Importantly, such changes have not infrequently gone against the grain of prevailing political and economic patterns of influence. Vulnerability to political influence has long been recognized as a kind of original sin in the field, but this unequivocal realization has proved to be a paradoxical boon, making for a particularly clear-sighted and self-aware discipline. The paper focuses on this problem, asking questions about the future directions of research in Slavonic Studies. The intellectual points of reference in this paper include the thought of Hannah Arendt, Odo Marquard, Ludwik Fleck, Peter Sloterdijk and Michał p. Markowski.

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