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Feliks Koneczny and Civilizational Fundamentalism in Poland

Feliks Koneczny and Civilizational Fundamentalism in Poland

Wise, Andrew Kier

Paperback

Eastern European HistoryHistoriographyPolish History

ISBN10: 0940962756
ISBN13: 9780940962750
Publisher: Piasa Books
Published: Oct 28 2019
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In this first English-language monograph about the Polish historian Feliks Koneczny (1862-1949), Andrew Kier Wise explains Koneczny's theories and the ongoing debate about their meaning and relevance for Poland in the twenty-first century. Koneczny believed in a plurality of civilizations rather than a universal path of historical development. Developed fully during the troubled interwar period, his science of civilizations prefigured the clash of civilizations theories of our own era. Koneczny was especially concerned with pressure from the Orient on Polish society by the so-called Byzantine, Turanian, and Jewish civilizations. He believed that Poland's distinct cultural identity was grounded in Latin (Western) civilization and derived from the classical heritage of the Roman Republic and medieval Catholicism. Adherents to Koneczny's worldview--which Wise defines as Konecznian fundamentalism or civilizational fundamentalism--embrace Koneczny's quincunx of existential values as a way to understand the world. Koneczny's theories and analytical framework thus provide a scholarly foundation for popular criticism of globalization, cosmopolitanism, immigration, feminism, the European Union, and other perceived threats to traditional Polish society.

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