Glossa do artykułu: Idea Opatrzności a cykliczność dziejów – rozumna natura człowieka i możliwość reform politycznych w poglądach Stanisława Dunin-Karwickiego

The author presents main tendencies in the Polish republicanism of the 18th century from the perspective of its philosophy of history and philosophy of politics presented by Dunin-Karwicki. The author tries to make a critical comparison of two contradictory interpretations of the reality understood as the creation of God or the people and the infl uences of these two interpretations on social changes and differences in the perception of the reality.

The paper contains a philosophical deconstruction of a notion of the "catastrophe" as historical phenomenon. The Author points out some characteristics of the catastrophic concept of the reality as they were expressed in the literary discourse in Poland in the period ofjin de siecle and in the poetry and prose of the WWII. The philosophical preconditions of catastrophic thinking are related to the literary expression present in narration of famous Polish poets and writers: Kazimierz Przerwa Tetmajer, Jan Kasprowicz, KrzysztofKamil Baczyński, Tadeusz Borowski and Gustaw Herling-Grudziński.