PZ 2018: Europe and Its Traditions – a New Outlook
- Binding: paperback
- Author: collective work
- Publisher: Instytut Zachodni
- PL ISSN: 0033-2437
- Publication date: 31 January 2019
- Number: 2018
- Number of pages: 315
- Size: A5
Dear Readers of “Przegląd Zachodni/Western Review”, We place in your hands yet another special English-language issue of the journal of the Instytut Zachodni (Institute for Western Affairs). The articles that make up its contents are a selection from the yearly edition of the journal for 2017 done with a foreign reader in mind. As any selection, it is tinged with subjectivism, however, the guiding principle was to give a cross-section view of the subject matters taken up on the pages of this interdisciplinary quarterly. In the nearly seventy-five-year history of the journal, we can discern interconnections among problems of the past and present that pertain to Poland, Germany, Polish-German relations, and Europe with its processes of integration but also conflicts and tensions. Finally, there are global issues which cannot be overlooked by in-depth studies of contemporary political science, economics, as well as analyses of the social life and historiography of nations. In the first part of the anthology we present articles that deal with issues related to Europe and the experiences of its countries, linked by themes of currently ongoing processes and new phenomena. The authors define the impact of these new developments on political directions, consider the social contexts and legal regulations, highlight the bearing of individual views, attitudes and memory on the transformations underway. Examples such as the changing situation of the family, the voice of the young voters, immigration, or the special form of identity which is memory, represent factors that determine the shape of everyday reality, at the same time revealing the need of coherence of policies and lawmaking on the one hand, and the subjective needs of individual persons and communities on the other. The second part of the volume contains historical studies and analyses – perhaps more numerous than in the several previous yearly issues of “Western Review”. They were inspired, in the first place, by the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, but also reflect the scholars’ interests in the role of women in society, culture and confessional communities. Like the papers on the historian of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and an émigré journalist, they can be treated as elements of a rich mosaic of the past, made up of pictures of the history of regions, “small homelands” or institutions and organizations. In this way the attention of readers engrossed in the vicissitudes of the past is again directed to the destinies of individuals or small communities of which history is woven.
Natalia Jackowska
1. Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse - The Crisis of European Integration in the Light of the Theories of Arnold Toynbee
2. Magdalena Szyszko - Central Banking after the Experiences of 2007-2016: Is there Room for Strategic Change?
3. Tomasz Nieborak - Soft Lex, sed Lex? On New Regulatory Instruments for the EU Financial Market
4. Katarzyna Gelles - Teen Voters: The Austrian Experience
5. Magdalena Karolak-Michalska - On the Ethnopolitics of Modern East European States: Culturally and Ethnically Heterogenous
6. Grażyna Firlit-Fesnak - The Place of the Family in the Public Order in Modern Europe. Old Contexts, New Challenges
7. Dorota Masiakowska-Osses - Immigration: A New Perspective in German Cultural Memory
8. Katarzyna Woniak - Former Polish Forced Workers in Today’s Memory Landscape: Almost Forgotten
9. Andrzej Denka - Some Remarks on Intercultural German Studies, the Hermeneutics of Otherness and the Conflict of Cultures on Reading the Essays of Botho Strauss
10. Wacław Pagórski - The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Works of Martin Zeiller (1589-1661)
11. Jarosław Nikodem - The Hussite Movement: A Forerunner of the Reformation or Its First Phase?
12. Jerzy Strzelczyk - Women at the Cradle of the Reformation: Some Examples of Literary Involvement
13. Katarzyna Jedynakiewicz-Mróz - Reflections on the Involvement of Women in the Democratic Opposition in the Late East Germany (1981-1989)
14. Magdalena Sacha - Bible, Gown, Harmonium... The Memory of Protestantism at Museums in Masuria
15. Daria Klich, OSU - The History of the Ursulines and Their Schools in Lower Silesia
16. Krzysztof Tarka - Germany, Russia and the Polish Cause in Jędrzej Giertych’s Articles in the Parisian Monthly Horyzonty (1956-1971)
Publikacja anglojęzycznego numeru „Przeglądu Zachodniego” została finansowana w ramach umowy 709/P-DUN/2018 ze środków Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę.
