Birth of the intelligentsia 1750-1831. : a history of the Polish Intelligentsia / / Part 1 : / Maciej Janowski ; edited by Jerzy Jedlicki ; translated by Tristan Korecki.

The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part one (1750-1831) traces the formation of the intelligentsia as a social class in the epoch of Enlightenment. It stresses the importance of the birth o...

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Superior document:Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik, Band 7
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Place / Publishing House:Frankfurt am Main, Germany : : Peter Lang Edition,, 2014.
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Year of Publication:2015
2014
Language:English
Series:Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik ; Band 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Foreword; Chapter 1: At the sources; 1. Prehistory; 2. The breakthrough: the printing press and the town; 3. Places and institutions: Warsaw; 4. Places and institutions: The province; Chapter 2: Friars, men-of-letters and Jacobins (1764-1795); 1. Where did they come from?; 2. The Academic Order; 3. The Polish officialdom at its outset; 4. Doctors and other foreigners; 5. Men-of-letters, artists, blue-stockings; 6. Educated man as an ideal; 7. Reason enlightened; 8. Conclusion; Chapter 3: "Some new Trojans..." (1795-1807); 1. "...in their new homeland..."; 2. "Sciences augmented"
  • Chapter 4: In the service of the State (1807-1830)1. How intellectuals turned into bureaucrats; 2. In the wake of the Commission of National Education; 3. The new people; 4. The urban life; 5. Ideals: old and new; Chapter 5: Toward a revolution; 1. The youth, and what they were after; 2. The intelligentsia and the authority; 3. The Insurrection; Index