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The paper, being a corrected version of an article written 15 years ago on the occasion of return of Bronislaw Baczko's books to the set of books published in Poland, in particular on the occasion of the Polish edition of 'Social Imageries', relates the personal reflection of the author and autobiographical themes to Baczko's work and his style of thinking, and underlines the essential features of the Warsaw school of history of ideas.