Tradycja, historia, postęp – Zygmunt Gloger wobec historiozofii Aleksandra Świętochowskiego

Abstract

Zygmunt Gloger’s attitude towards Polish positivism and Polish positivists is a debatable issue. It is often considered in the context of Gloger’s alleged approval or rejection of the progressivists’ slogans. To make the problem even more complex, Polish positivists cannot be treated as belonging to one monolithic movement. Therefore, the article focuses on a very specific aspect of the problem – the relation between Gloger’s views and the Aleksander Świętochowski’s Philosophy of History. The analysis of the seminal article “Tradition, History and Progress,” published in the weekly “Przegląd Tygodniowy” as well as other publications of the leading representative of the Warsaw positivism shows his affinity with Gloger’s line of thinking.