Od cudowności do użyteczności. O cywilizacji polskiej w wieku XIX. Rec.: „Praktyka – utopia – metafora. Wynalazek w XIX wieku”, red. Joanna Kubicka, Małgorzata Litwinowicz-Droździel, Warszawa 2016
From miraculous to useful. About Polish civilization in the nineteenth century. Review of: “Practice – Utopia – Metaphor. Invention in the nineteenth century”, ed. by Joanna Kubicka and Małgorzata Litwinowicz-Droździel, Warsaw 2016

Summary/Abstract: This review article is a discussion about a collective book edited by Joanna Kubicka and Małgorzata Litwinowicz-Droździel, titled “Practice – Utopia – Metaphor. Invention in the nineteenth century” (“Praktyka – utopia – metafora. Wynalazek w XIX Wieku”, Warszawa 2016) in terms of its content, compared to the existing literature on the subject and what it adds to the study of Polish nineteenth century. The author emphasizes the timeliness of the publication, which – as exemplified by inventiveness discourse – confirms the complexity of Polish civilization experience, but also the integrity of the “nineteenth century”.

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