Refleksje o teoretycznych podstawach historii kultury

• Authors: Krzysztof Moraczewski

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REFLECTIONS ON THEORETICAL GROUND OF THE HISTORY OF THE CULTURE

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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During last 60 years, there was a lot of discussion on the profits that history may gain by applying certain results and theoretical approaches of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture. Polemists involved were significantly less concerned with the opposite way: the consequences of new models of history for theory of culture. Trying to follow this way I start with classic propositions by Fernand Braudel and his ‘unfaithful’ followers in France, usually connected with the idea of ‘history of mentality’. My main concern is – minding all the theoretical and methodological problems that the term ‘mentality’ have caused and continues to cause – to confront their ideas with concept of culture as a ‘mental reality’, represented by Jerzy Kmita’s social-regulatory conception. The conclusions are not only to substitute the term ‘mentality’ with the theoretical concept of culture (the idea already formulated by Robert Darnton) but firstly to broaden and reformulate some Kmita’s ideas, allowing them to cover the field of research typical for the traditional history of mentality.

Keywords

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HISTORY OF THE CULTURE; HISTORY OF MENTALITY; MENTAL REALITY; FERNAND BRAUDEL; JERZY KMITA

• Publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza Epigram
• Journal: Filo-Sofija
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1(12)
• Pages: 239-262

Contributors

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Krzysztof Moraczewski