a meeting in Winchester

Walicki Zniewolony umysł po latach PL-ENG

Posted here (Word document above) are the original Polish and an English translation by Angelina Weimann of an except from the following book:

Andrzej Walicki

Zniewolony umysł po latach

Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Czytelnik. 1993

Rozdział: „Rosja” (fragment)

Andrzej Walicki
Captive Mind After Years
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Czytelnik
Chapter: “Russia” (excerpt)

Andrzej Walicki (1930 2020) was a Polish historian and a professor at the University of Notre Dame. He specialized in philosophy of sociopolitics, history of Polish and Russian philosophy, Marxism, and liberal thought. He was one of the scholars who formed the “Warsaw school of the history of ideas.”

Angelina Weimann: “Walicki  made a detailed study of Russian philosophy. It was not always well received because Poland, due to historical facts (the Russian partitions, Stalin’s regime, the USSR), is not an ideal place for the study of great Russians. However, thanks to Russia, many Polish scholars, including Sorokin’s teacher, Leon Petrażycki, received an excellent education and would become international scholars.”

See Andrzej Walicki, The Slavophile Controversy : History of a Conservative Utopia in Nineteenth-Century Russian Thought (Notre Dame Press, 1989)

— posted by Roger W. Smith

      October 2022

Acknowledgment: I wish to thank Angelina Weimann for sharing this excerpt in the original with me; and for offering to do an English translation.

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