PAWLIKOWSKI-TWO WORLDS publ. 1952

PAWLIKOWSKI MICHAL

TWO WORLDS

London 1952, Veritas Publishing Committee, pp. 502, 6 maps; format 14.5x22.5 cm

Table of contents:

I. Problem. Civilization - the establishment of the concept. What is civilization?

II. Europe and Asia in the darkness of the times.

III. Two sources of worldviews.

IV. The heritages of European nations. [The heterogeneity of Europe's civilization. Back to history. Jews. Germany. The fog over London. Russian preliminaries. Poland. Mirror of literature]

V. Science.

VI. What is a Nation?

VII. What is a "race"?

From the publisher's note:

Our period of confusion, misfortune and ill-feeling is in dire need of syntheses, like the diagnosis of a disease and the indication of medicine. We all feel this need, Many of us have been tempted to undertake such an enormous and difficult work. Michal Pawlikowski's book is the first such full and completed synthesis. Without going into an assessment of its unparalleled value, it must be said that this is a book that has not been available to date in the aforementioned field.

JOZEF KISIELEWSKI

The issue of civilization is one that requires reaching as far as one can into the past of the human race. Pawlikowski, however, reaches into it somewhat differently from the usual approach of history researchers curious about the past. His wake-up call is the present. Opposing notions and aspirations struggle in tremendous tension and range: Two worlds. To understand what is happening today, he seeks to inquire and show how this opposition grew. The reader will come to the ready. It was necessary to learn about the previous results of science, juxtapose contradictory views, reflect on them, illuminate the opposites, evaluate them, flip the conclusions that emerge from them into today's phenomena. This output of Michal Pawlikowski's many years of diligent and astute work is contained in a book that will teach a lot and greatly stimulate thinking.

STANISŁAW STROŃSKI

Although Pawlikowski himself deletes his book as political, it is a type of book quite different from all the political publications that have appeared since the pre-war era. The subject of politics in our time is no longer an economic, political or diplomatic program, but the defense of our civilization as a whole. In the form of Pawlikowski's book, we have before us the fruit of comprehensive stages. The author uses not only the scalpel of a scientist, but also the pen of a poet, and stimulates thought and action. Speaking, whether about matters most remote in time or directly about eternal issues, with every nerve he conveys to us his sense of their present-day relevance and importance.

WOJCIECH WASIUTYŃSKI

PUBLISHER'S HARDCOVER CLOTH BINDING WITH WRAPPER

BDB-/ condition, slightly damaged wrapper, interior flawless, NICE Piece.