Modernizm poza zasadą wiedzy i pewności: procesualizm Romualda Minkiewicza

Abstract

The article is an attempt to recall a completely forgotten writer of the Young Poland era – Romuald Kazimierz Minkiewicz 1878–1944). He was a playwright, poet, journalist and essayist. He became famous and remembered as a professor of biology: hydrobiologist, ethologist, protozoologist, entomologist. As a professor of biology, he was also known for his freethinking activities – he was an opponent of all dogmatism: ideological, religious and scientific (hence his hostility towards communism). He edited free-thinking magazines in free Poland (1918–1939). He was not only a well-known propagator of the idea of socialism, the ideal of a spiritual commune, but also a Polish patriot fighting for the incorporation of the Suwałki Region and Sejny into Poland after Lithuania submitted demands to them. His language was rooted in the manner of the Young Poland movement, but grounded in the philosophical idea of being as a whole, which, evolving through man, reveals its metaphysical mysteries.