Pozytywistyczne spojrzenia w głąb ziemi: przeglądowcy, Zygmunt Gloger

Abstract

The author juxtaposes two attitudes toward the Earth in the literature and journalism of the Polish positivists, the supporters of the ambitious civilizational and social reforms in the aftermath of the January Uprising (1864). The first attitude – called exploratory, pragmatic, theoretical – is represented by the young Warsaw positivists from the editorial board of “Weekly Review”, which from 1866 to 1876 organized an ideological campaign to propagate it. The second attitude is championed by Zygmunt Gloger (1845–1910), the writer, journalist and social activist, who popularized the civilizational ideals of positivism, but at the same time did not neglect his endless focus on the province, the land, peasants and nature.