The paper gives an analysis of the 3rd, post-war period of the history of the first philosophical journal established in Slovakia. The publishing of the periodical was marked by the rapidly changing social conditions and the ruptures. This resulted in the personal change on the position of the editor-in-chief and other changes, such as the new contentual orientation, suppressing the plurality of philosophical stands, and finally in the destruction of the periodical.
The article is a contribution to the history of the Kwartalnik Filozoficzny (the Philosophical Quarterly). It considers the types of works reviewed in the interwar period and points out the authors of the reviews. The article describes a dozen or so reviews assessing books written by both Polish and foreign authors. It displays the philosophical issues which the reviewers were most interested in and the reviewers’ attitude towards the theses set forth in the reviewed works. An important fact that emerges is that the reviews of philosophical dissertations were written by experts in philosophy such as: Witold Rubczyński, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Marian Heitzman, Konstanty Michalski, and Joachim Metallmann, who could splendidly assess the value of the reviewed works.
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