Chauvinism, Polish Style: The Case of Roman Dmowski (Beginnings: 1886–1905)

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The book addresses the genesis of Polish integral nationalism and the role of Roman Dmowski as a co-founder of this phenomenon in the development of Polish political thought at the fin-de-siaecle. Based on extensive documentary research, it attempts to show a broader picture of modern Polish political and social thinking in context of the late 19th and early 20th East Central Europe. The author reflects on the significance of racial thinking and Social Darwinism of the new nationalist imagination, arguing that its intellectual foundations came from anti-positivist and anti-Enlightenment tradition. He challenges the widespread assumption that Polish nationalism in its early version cherished somehow mild attitudes toward minorities, especially the Jews, claiming instead that enmity toward 'Otherness' constitutes its ideological core. A major feature of the book is the contextualization of Polish nationalism against the backdrop of the fin-de-siecle European political thought. Cover......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 9 Introduction......Page 11 Notes to the English edition......Page 31 Rebellion at School......Page 33 The Student Leader......Page 40 Chapter Two An Idealistic Revolt......Page 45 The Idealist Revolt. The Nationalist Variant......Page 59 Chapter Three Racism, Polish Style......Page 95 Chapter Four In The Face of A Crisis of Civilization......Page 143 The Collapse of Warsaw Student Radicalism in the First Half of the 1890s in the Kingdom of Poland......Page 197 The only conservative in Poland......Page 223 Attitudes towards the Jews and the Jewish Question......Page 268 A Vision of Public Order......Page 312 National Democracy at the Turn of the Century......Page 377 Thoughts of a Modern Pole seen by contemporaries......Page 429 Conclusion......Page 473 Chauvinism, Polish Style......Page 481 Glossary of Abbreviations......Page 485 Bibliography and Index of Names......Page 487 Index......Page 573