A Periphery at The Centre of Attention

Kochanowicz, Jacek

doi:10.4324/9781315734736-13

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“…82 ) Witold Kula, in the tradition of Czarnowski's entanglements with French social science, maintained a close dialogue with Fernand Braudel and is best known for his Economic Theory of the Feudal System, which presented a model of the Polish economy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, andin its broader implicationsoffered a method for analysing non-capitalist systems. 83 On the whole, Czarnowski's intellectual legacy may be felt in a new wave of international circulation of knowledge in the 1960s, when again East Central European scholars started to compare their region with the developing world. 84 Conclusion Although Czarnowski's early and late writings differed theoretically and thematically, they were bound together by his belief that history writing should serve sociological purposes.…”

Section: Celts Saints and Nationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Durkheim to Czarnowski: Sociological Universalism and Polish Politics in the Interwar Period

Wawrzyniak

2018

Contemporary European History

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The Durkheimian School of sociology was one of the most comprehensive programmes ever developed in the social sciences. This article contributes to those accounts of the School that discuss its intergenerational, interdisciplinary and international transformations after the Great War. From this perspective, the article presents the case of a Polish scholar, Stefan Czarnowski (1879–1937), whose early work on the cult of St. Patrick in Ireland became one of the Durkheimian classics on social integration. In the interwar period Czarnowski argued against race studies and anti-social concepts of culture and called for sociologically grounded comparative world history ordered around the notions of class and work. More generally, Czarnowski’s reconfiguration of Durkheimian universal principles in the specific location of East Central Europe calls for a deeper historicisation of the Durkheimian School as a movement in international social sciences.

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Section: Celts Saints and Nationsmentioning

confidence: 99%