Relacja komunizmu i religii stanowi obszerne i budzące spory zagadnienie. W artykule odnoszę się do tej kwestii, przywołując specyficznego myśliciela, mianowicie: Wilhelma Weitlinga (1808-1871). Badacze jego idei interpretowali religię w różny sposób, traktując ją jako to, co stanowiło sam fundament jego poglądów, lub, dla odmiany, jako nieznaczący dodatek do jego świeckich teorii. W niniejszym studium argumentuję, że prace Weitlinga powinny być rozumiane jako wyrażające chrześcijański język polityczny w sensie, jaki nadał temu terminowi historyk J.G.A. Pocock. Wychodząc z tego założenia, artykuł zmierza ku ujawnieniu sposobów wyrazu chrześcijańskiego języka Weitlinga i do wskazania, w jaki sposób manifestował się on w jego trzech najważniejszych pracach.
The purpose of this article is to emphasise the importance of the concept of Sittlichkeit for understanding the contestation around community and social cohesion during the German Vormärz, the decades before 1848. I will demonstrate the centrality of the concept of Sittlichkeit via a conceptual-historically inspired analysis of the works of three thinkers who were at the centre of the development of German political ideologies of the Vormärz era: the liberal Karl Theodor Welcker, the conservative Friedrich Julius Stahl, and the socialist Wilhelm Weitling. The concept of Sittlichkeit was influenced by the philosophy of Hegel and in various ways concerned the customs and social cohesion of a specific community. I will show how this was the case to different extents in the works of Welcker, Stahl, and Weitling. Concomitant with their respective political convictions, Sittlichkeit for Welcker was connected to constitutional liberties, for Stahl related to a hierarchical godly order, and for Weitling it was something which was oppressive, and needed to be destroyed. This discussion about the centrality of Sittlichkeit will also serve to stress another point: that in Vormärz Germany, political ideologies were formed in close connection with Christianity and Christian theology.
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In the 2010s, intellectual history has been experiencing growth and success internationally. There have been discussions about the identity and status of the field, often including taking recourse to its history. Such historiography focuses on the larger countries, which means leaving out one country where the historical study of ideas have been successfully institutionalized, namely Sweden. This article deals with the Swedish discipline idéhistoria, founded in 1932, and will introduce and situate the discipline within discussions of the international field of intellectual history, considering in what sense idéhistoria is a form of intellectual history. The findings are that if intellectual history is defined closely to the Cambridge School tradition, then idéhistoria is different, but if intellectual history is a field which more generally studies human thought, knowledge and ideas in their historical contexts, then idéhistoria is one nationally distinct but successful form of intellectual history. Having kept strong ties to the history of science, but also developing in other directions throughout its history, the discipline is today eclectic, held together more by institutional means than a strong kernel in methodology or practice. Still, for those advocating a broader intellectual history, idéhistoria may be seen as an interesting example.
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