Contents
Introduction: The ethnography of historiography developed in the Polish People’s Republic / 9
Chapter 1
‘Being there’
1.1. Górski’s methodological reflection between the wars and during his stay in a prisoner-of-war camp / 31
1.2. Post-war methodological reflection / 37
1.2.1. Immanently historical interpretation / 40
1.2.2. Transcendent interpretation of history / 55
1.2.3. Truth in history / 59
Chapter 2
‘Being here’
2.1. The time between the wars: The Second Polish Republic / 61
2.1.1. Revival movement: Thomism and personalism / 61
2.1.2. Building a new Christian cultural order / 72
2.1.2.1. The crisis in contemporary culture and overcoming it / 74
2.1.2.2. A new historical ideal of Christian culture / 77
2.1.2.3. A new ideal of man / 79
2.1.2.3.1. A person and an individual / 80
2.1.2.3.2. Man and society / 86
2.1.3. A modern ideal of Christian culture / 89
2.2. Post-war: The Polish People’s Republic / 91
Chapter 3
Koinologia
3.1. Koinologia and philosophy / 106
3.2. Koinologia and research practice: sociological and anthropological turn / 113
3.2.1. Koinologia and sociology: ‘a sociological point of view in history’ / 115
3.2.2. Koinologia and cultural anthropology / 119
3.3. Studying small closed communities: a transcendent interpretation of history / 127
3.4. Cultural climate / 135
Chapter 4
History as the history of divine grace
4.1. The theological foundation of culture and its history / 145
4.2. Research on Christianity in Poland as a study of personal and social attitudes to God / 150
Chapter 5
The case of Karol Górski on the cultural map of historiography developed in the Polish People’s Republic and its diagnosis
5.1. The place of Karol Górski’s historical writing on the cultural map of historiography developed in communist Poland / 169
5.1.1. The non-scientistic direction of the modernisation of Polish historiography / 170
5.1.2. The scientistic and non-scientistic anthropologisation of Polish historiography / 179
5.2. Anthropologising history: a diagnosis of Karol Górski’s case / 183
5.2.1. The sensitising concept of anthropologising history / 184
5.2.2. Diagnosing Karol Górski’s case: developing the sensitising concept of anthropologising history / 190
Conclusions / 193
Biographical timeline of Karol Górski / 197
List of sources and literature / 205
Name Index / 221
