From Social Schizophrenia to Parallel Worlds. A Contribution to the Subjective Autobiography of Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński (1944–2015) Cover Image

Od schizofrenii społecznej do światów równoległych. Przyczynek do autobiografii subiektywnej Edmunda Wnuk-Lipińskiego (1944–2015)
From Social Schizophrenia to Parallel Worlds. A Contribution to the Subjective Autobiography of Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński (1944–2015)

Author(s): Stanisław Mocek
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences
Published by: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Keywords: political culture; systemic transformation; radical social change; democracy; public sociology

Summary/Abstract: This paper is an attempt to assess the scientific achievements of the recently deceased Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński – an eminent Polish sociologist of international repute – from the perspective of political culture. There is significant evidence to suggest that political culture was present in Professor Wnuk-Lipiński’s scholarly oeuvre in a considerably broader sense than in classic political science literature. In this paper, political culture is analysed from the perspective of public sociology and the original concept of social schizophrenia (the period of communism), as well as the fundamentalist and pragmatic response to radical social change (the period of systemic transformation).

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 17-28
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish