History and politics - contrary worlds? In passing Juliusz Mieroszewski’s political thought Cover Image

Historia i polityka – światy przeciwstawne? Na marginesie myśli Juliusza Mieroszewskiego
History and politics - contrary worlds? In passing Juliusz Mieroszewski’s political thought

Author(s): Tomasz Ceran
Subject(s): International relations/trade, History and theory of political science
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Keywords: Juliusz Mieroszewski; myśl polityczna;

Summary/Abstract: The article described Juliusz Mieroszewski 's reflections about relations between history and politics, research the past events, understand the present situation and predict the futurę, especially in international relations. The most influential political commentator of polish magazine ‘Culture’ (edited by Jerzy Giedroyć in Paris) claimed that history is the politics which had been stopped but politics can’t be the 'unmovable’ and unchangeable history. The Polish had been studying a history, but polish po¬litical science didn’t have the opportunity to born. If we change a half of time which we focus on the past into studying the present, polish political though will be recover and have a great futurę. However ‘Londonman’ (a pen name of Mieroszewski, who lived and wrote in London after the Second World War) was aware that without historical knowledge the political science have a little chance to understand the present and shape the futurę on purpose. According to writer the political science and inter¬national relations are a very young sons of old father - the history. They must using their father’s experience. However they won’t find in the past a simple and direct So¬lutions of present dilemmas. History offer only a wide perspective and knowledge about variety of social and political live. Mieroszewski had known that live and poli¬tics are not logical but our tasks is to make it more logical. We don’t have better options.

  • Issue Year: 11/2010
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 120-134
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish