SMOLEÑSKI Wladyslaw
MENTAL UPHEAVAL IN POLAND IN THE XVIII CENTURY
Studya historyczne.
Wyd.2, uzupełnione, z ilustracjami
Warsaw 1923, pp. [2], 448, [2], VI; format 14x21.5cm
Extremely ambitious work on the history of culture, by a well-known Polish historian, representative of the Warsaw school; fruit of a long study of the epoch of the Polish Enlightenment, one of the most famous historical monographs in Poland at the end of the 19th century.
Contents [main sections]: Mindfulness in the era of Catholic reaction, Philosophia recentiorum, Fight against superstition, Religious skepticism, Free mularity, The dissident case, Secularization of the school, The case of the clergy, The clashes of extreme directions in the journalism of the last quarter of the century, The general public towards the slogans of the enlightened age.
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