DYKTATURA SWOJSKOŚCI. Z HISTORII IDEI „POLITYKI RADYKALNEJ” W POLSCE

The policy of the Polish Government, which is – following a legal decision by the European Court of Justice – violating the rules of constitutional democracy since 2015, is often taken as an example of global prevailing populism or the “seductive lure of authoritarianism” (Anne Appelbaum). Beside that other explanations comprehend actual tendencies in Poland as a specific middle-east European idea of nation, rather ethnically than politically framed. Andrzej Gniazdowski tries to go beyond these approaches by analyzing the situation in a broader historical and theoretical context. By critically reconsidering Andrzej Walicki's idea-historical view of the polish ‘Sonder-weg’ to modernity, that traces back the political notion of nation to the tradition of the old Aristocratic Republicanism in Poland, Gniazdowski is interpreting this genuine oligarchic republicanism as a type of estate’s radicalism.