Polska pamięć – dzisiaj. Co pozostaje? Trwały ślad i mechanizmy niepamiętania
Polish Memory – Today: What Remains? A Lasting Trace and Mechanisms of Forgetting

Summary/Abstract: A key issue for Polish culture – post-partition as well as now – is the juxtaposition of two differently actualized historiosophical matrixes of memory. The matrix of the subjective narrative stresses that the Poles have (almost) always been agents or ‘authors’ of Polish history. This position foregrounds the moment where history is actively created through collective agency. By contrast, the matrix of the undermined subjectivity suggests that Poles – at least since the nation’s partitions, but perhaps even before – have not been active agents or ‘authors’ of their history. These two matrixes are key to Polish memory. They are able to function beyond the sphere of immediate political axiology, and to connect, in the art of remembering and forgetting, different groups of Poles, even those that are strongly antagonistic.

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