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Szczeliny dla wolnomyślnych powiewów. Polskie taktyki przekładowe dzieł Johna Williama Drapera

(Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2023) Makuch, Damian; Uniwersytet Warszawski

The article outlines the process of translating John William Draper’s historical works into Polish and shows how these translations were evaluated against the background of the reception of the American scientist’s ideas. The author describes the historical conditions for the transfer of Draperism, identifies the translation tactics of Polish translators, and traces how critics with different worldviews reacted to the results of their work. Using this example, he tries to show that in the second half of the 19th century, the Polish (counter)discourse of secularization developed under extremely difficult conditions related to censorship and morality, so the translation tactics of Draper’s historiography can be considered an emancipatory gesture.

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Grobowe milczenie? Postyczniowe głosy na temat Andrzeja Towiańskiego i recepcja jego myśli

(Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2023) Makuch, Damian; Uniwersytet Warszawski

The article discusses the changes in the reception of Andrzej Towiański and Towianism after the January Uprising (until 1882), namely in the period of the Master’s literal and symbolic departure. The author proves that in the times of the Positivist offensive, writers began to verify the harmful myths about the Towianist religious movement and its leader. The period saw the emergence, alongside memoirs and polemical narratives, of attempts to conduct research on Towianism based on preserved documents and historical works. The author shows how the stories shaped by representatives of the intelligentsia were directly connected with new political and anthropological projects, as well as with the assessment and place of religion in the post-January period.

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Autorytet profesora. Henryk Struve i jego uczniowie w świetle korespondencji

(Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2019) Makuch, Damian; Uniwersytet Warszawski

The article discusses the relations between Henryk Struve and his disciples in light of their largely unpublished correspondence. Among the participants of the lectures and seminars of this Warsaw academic, we find important figures belonging to several generations of Polish intelligentsia: Stanisław Brzozowski, Bronisław Chlebowski, Piotr Chmielowski, Ignacy Chrzanowski, Bronisław Grabowski, Antoni Lange or Zenon Przesmycki as well as less known persons such as Władysław Borowski, Wacław Chrzanowski and Gerard Uziębło. Bolesław Prus, Kazimierz Twardowski and Jerzy Żuławski can be also considered Struve’s disciples in view of their correspondence. The letters also demonstrate the relations that could be established between an academic and his students and, at the same time, testify what the authority of the Main School and the Imperial University of Warsaw professor meant and how it was maintained in the Polish society of the second half of the nineteenth century.

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Zapominanie. Późna działalność Eleonory Ziemięckiej w świetle wspomnień pośmiertnych

(Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2019) Makuch, Damian; Uniwersytet Warszawski

The author of the article, using the example of Eleonora Ziemięcka, a philosopher popular in the 1840s, tries to show the mechanisms of forgetting about speculative and religious Polish thinkers of the inter-uprising period. In the fi rst part of the article, he compares posthumous memories that appeared in the press after Ziemięcka’s death in 1869, while in the second part he analyzes her works from the 1860s. In conclusion, he proves that even though she was immediately stereotyped as a conservative woman with anachronistic views, her late works show that she consistently tried to create a modern social and philosophical programme complementary to Positivism.

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Psychologia w Szkole Głównej

(Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2017-05-29) Makuch, Damian; Uniwersytet Warszawski

The aim of this article is to present lectures of psychology which took place at the Main School (as a part of the course of logic) and to demonstrate influence they had on positivists worldview. The author analyzes lectures and publications of professors (especially Henryk Struve, but also Wiktor Feliks Szokalski and Kazimierz Kaszewski). Although their works still refered to the Hegelian philosophy and Polish idealism, professors were interested in modern science which uses experience and observation. As the author proves on the basis of works of Julian Ochorowicz, (Henryk Struve’s student) it turns out that young positivists may be seen as students who were developing and continuing their professors ideas

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