http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13538 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:57:45 GMT 2026-04-15T11:57:45Z http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13554 Profesor Leszek Dzięgiel – naukowiec mimo wszystko Bar, Joanna The article is a reminiscent text devoted to the memory of Professor Leszek Dzięgiel, who deceased in 2005. He was an anthropologist, lecturer and a long-term head of the Ethnology Institute of the Jagiellonian University, an active member of the Polish Ethnological Society, a member of the Committee on Ethnological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Ethnographic Commission of the Cracow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The author of the article, a student and doctorate of the Professor, tried to present the extensive influence that the political reality of the Polish People’s Republic had on the possibility of scholar and career development of many intellectuals, also shaping the career of the prominent Polish scholar. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13554 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13553 Dr Józef Korpała. Nieznane fakty w biografii zasłużonego organizatora krakowskiego bibliotekarstwa Dróżdż, Andrzej With the onset of the People’s Poland, pre-war democratic or sanatian activists were regarded as potential enemies of the political system. Dr Józef Korpała, the director of the City Public Library in Cracow, did not belong to the organized anti-Communist opposition but, due to his extensive connections, was constantly induced to co-operate with the Third Voivod Office of the Public Security. Preserved documents show that he refused such co-operation, however, it does not mean that he managed to protect his personal independence in such tough times. As an expert of librarianship and a civil servant he wrote negative opinions on the private profit-making libraries and participated in purifying the Cracow libraries from books that were damaging to the Communist government. His professional career accelerated only when he joined the Party. Then he gained the opinion of an accolade-worthy person and no one from the Ministry of Public Security dared to remind him of his pre-war political stances. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13553 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13552 Iluzje i aluzje rewizjonistów okresu PRL – przykład Pawła Beylina Mikołajczyk, Magdalena The article presents the biography and opinions of Paweł Beylin, one of the representatives of the Polish left-wing intelligentsia, and more precisely, the group that was regarded as revisionist by the leaders of the Communist party after the October of 1956. Apart from studying at the university, Beylin also attended the Institute for the Education of the Research Staff (Instytut Kształcenia Kadr Naukowych) – a school that educated the personnel of Marxism-oriented social sciences. In his scholarly and didactic work he was connected with many universities, including art schools. Beside a few early publications he did not have any works in a tendentious ideological overtone. He was engaged in popularizing the history of the social thought and valuable contemporary humanities. Similarly to his friend Leszek Kołakowski, Beylin was a philosopher and a publicist engaged in the disputes over the essence of socialism and the state based on those ideas that were characteristic for the period of the Polish thaw. He was well-known for his criticism of the absurdities of the socialist reality, mocking commentaries and polemics with the main ideologues of that time. His critical attitude and gestures of solidarity with his incriminated friend resulted in excluding him from the Communist party. After March 1968, on the wave of anti-Semitism, he was also dismissed. Soon afterwards, he died. His texts about, among others, the role of intelligence and the obligations of intellectuals were published posthumously in periodicals published on emigration. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13552 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13551 Dylematy i wybory ideowe Bogdana Suchodolskiego Stawowy, Ewa While looking for the ideological engagement of the pedagogy of B. Suchodolski we encounter three considerably different orientations. They correspond to different phases of his life that were marked out by the history and politics of our country. Professor B. Suchodolski always stayed in the main stream of the changes. In the pre-war period he followed the totalitarian ideology of the country and the nation, during the war he flirted with Christian personalism and socialism, and after the war, studying the classical ideologists; he fully embraced the philosophy of Marxism and built his concept of ideologically engaged pedagogy on that philosophy. Although he avoided a straightforward political identification for his whole career – he never became a member of any party – towards the end of his life he accepted the nomination for the leader of the National Council of Culture from the hands of W. Jaruzelski and soon he became a member of the parliament (1985–89). The works and rich organizational and social activity of B. Suchodolski had a huge influence on the post-war generation of pedagogues in Poland. Interestingly, Suchodolski’s works that were well-known and valued do not belong to the works created during the pre-war and war period that are discussed in the article. The latter were either unknown or omitted in the reference to the huge pedagogical output of Suchodolski. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13551 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z