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North and South
In North and South: Essays on Polish Culture and History Marek Cichocki discusses Poland's role in the past and its potential today and in the future as a country placed between the Roman South and barbarian North. This original and refreshing way of viewing the place of Poland in historical and contemporary politics opens new perspectives of understanding Europe and its cultural and political heritage.
The Idea of Historiosophy in August Cieszkowski's Early Writing
``The problem of desubstantialistic thinking about history raised by Krystian Pawlaczyk appears as a proposition of `philosophy of deeds' in the light of August Cieszkowski's answer presented and interpreted in the book. Philosophy, that may be classified as voluntaristic spiritualism opposed to panlogism of Hegel and his epigones, including the materialists of Hegelian Left. Reintepretation of the problem of desubstantialization also reveals the figure of Cieszkowski himself, showing him as a precursor of civilizational progress of nations through the cessation of armed conflicts and aiming at planet-wide socialization, which was supposed to find its climax of ethic-social development in Un...
Coming of Age Under Martial Law
Examines a selection of post-1989 coming-of-age novels authored by the generation of Polish writers whose transition from adolescence to adulthood coincided with Poland's transition from communism to liberal democracy.
Marek A. Cichocki - An Old Or a New Europe? - A Sketch on the Philosophy Underlying Polish
The essence of these changes is not only accounting for the population aspect, as proposed in the draft Constitutional Treaty (a qualified majority should represent 60 per cent of the population of the EU)--a modification already present in the Treaty of Nice, incidentally--but, above all, the abandonment of the principle of weighting of votes redefined in Nice for a Union of 27 states. [...] For actually the abandonment of the weighting of votes--though apparently solving the Franco-German dilemma of maintaining parity between the two countries despite the difference in the population potential between France and the united Germany, a dilemma that has been growing ever since Nice--introduce...
The Aesthetics of Populism: Political Struggle and the Aesthetics Experience in Poland after 1989
Do populists and liberal democrats recognizably differ in their lifestyles, clothes, eating habits, or reading preferences? Do the supporters of populism and liberal democracy look at the past from different perspectives? How do their aesthetic choices influence their political engagement? You will find these and similar questions addressed (and answered) by the contributors to this collection. The volume owes its special place in the literature on political aesthetics to its interdisciplinarity. It combines theoretical explorations of the ways aesthetics can be used to analyze political developments and empirical research that comprehensively illuminates the relevance of aesthetics to political struggle.
The Black Sea Region and EU Policy
The Black Sea region rarely hit the media headlines until the outbreak of war in Georgia in 2008, yet its importance as a focus of European Union (EU) external policy making had already been growing for several years. The area is fascinating and diverse, comprising both large and small states, with a mixture of democracies and more authoritarian regimes. Traditionally a central foreign policy concern for Russia and Turkey, since the end of the Cold War, the EU and the US have become increasingly involved in the many dimensions of Black Sea politics. This book brings together a broad range of specialists on the region to analyze the challenge of divergent agendas both within and outside the E...
The Treaty of Lisbon
Detailed and comprehensive analysis of how the Treaty of Lisbon emerged in 2007 this book explores the role played by the German Council Presidency and the EU's institutional actors in securing agreement among the leaders of member states on an intergovernmental conference as well as a new treaty text to replace the rejected Constitutional Treaty.
New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe
This book explores the emergence, and in Poland, Hungary, and Russia the coming to power, of politicians and political parties rejecting the consensus around market reforms, democratization, and rule of law that has characterized moves toward an "open society" from the 1990s. It discusses how over the last decade these political actors, together with various think tanks, intellectual circles, and religious actors, have increasingly presented themselves as "conservatives," and outlines how these actors are developing a new local brand of conservatism as a full-fledged ideology that counters the perceived liberal overemphasis on individual rights and freedom, and differs from the ideology of the established, present-day conservative parties of Western Europe. Overall, the book argues that the "renaissance of conservatism" in these countries represents variations on a new, illiberal conservatism that aims to re-establish a strong state sovereignty defining and pursuing a national path of development.
