Abstract
The historian in the contemporary Poland has to fulfil not only the tasks on his
workplace, commonly at a state university or in a research institute but he has also commitments
which result from the traditional ethos of a man of science. In the public sphere
he has to deal with historical politics created by the state and the political forces immediately,
which cannot actually be influenced by the scientific circles in a relevant way. The
political forces await from the historian the disclosure of such a “truth” which would interpret
the existing reality as the possible space for creation of that what ought to be. The
associational scientific movement as a traditionally autonomous body concerned with population of knowledge has in this situation the chance and the not utterly fulfilled task
of defending of the historical truth, conditioned and determined with the contemporary
theory of knowledge.
Go to article