Research project on The Lviv Multicultural Historical Environment in the 19'" and 2(Y• Centuries is realised since 2002 by a group of Polish and Ukrainian historians. Research concentrates on the rich historiographic achievements ofLviv Polish, Ukrainian, German and Jewish historians in the 191h and 20'h centuries. Various contributions discuss the institutional support for historians such as university chairs and seminars at the Lviv University, professional quarterly ,,Kwartalnik Historyczny" and Historical Society.
The article is a review of the book edited by Krzysztof Brzechczyn, The Paths of Transformation. Theoretical Approach and Empirical Descriptions, Poznań 2003.
The article presents some possibilities and limitations of the general psychological knowledge utilization in the causal explanation in history based on the probabilistic model.
The paper analyses Thomas S. Kuhn's theory of the development of science interpreted as a sociological conception. Kuhn's visions of dealing with history as well as eventual controversies connected with its application are discussed.
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.
The article deals with the problem of historical writing. Up to our time methodologists used to believe that authors of historical works were exclusively historians themselves. The contemporary philosophy and literary theory rejects the idea of such an importance of the author. Other factors like paradigm, discourse or culture are admitted also into creation of historical texts.
Multiple historians as well as sociologists gradually recognize the multiple parallels joining their disciplines. This is a reason for the Authors of the paper to launch a concept of the "History-Sociology" as a new, matrix discipline in humanities.
The Author presents in this paper a concept of research on the Jewish ethos internalized in the groups representing main political trends that were popular among the Polish Jewry in the interwar Poland (1918-1939). These trends are: Zionism, Socialism, Folkizm and a policy of Assimilation. Analysis of above group's ethos covers research on the following issues: values and attitudes constituting the ethos of a specific group, sources and function of the ethos and instruments of communication used in transmission of the ethos.
The article compares and evaluates the conceptions of two American historical sociologists in reference to the historical change which took place in the XVI-XIX-century England.
The Author presents main tendencies in the development of the "Annales" school from the perspective of its modem development and actual critical view presented by its members. The review of tendencies follows an analysis of recent curricula of the studies in history at the Ecole des Haute Etudes en Sciences Socia/es (EHESS). The Author compares these curricula with the system of history teaching in other universities in France, as well as in Poland.
Retracing the history of the investigation of memory - starting with the incentives of antiquity and, passing by the modem times as well as by the XIX century-constitutes a starting point from which one can proceed to the discussion of trends prevailing in contemporary analyses of the issue of interdependencies between history and the memory. As a result, the Author is able to confirm the usefulness of the investigation of memory for historical research, its advantages and the changes necessitated by approaching the subject of memory.
The Author discusses in this paper the usefulness of the Foucault's term "knowledge-rule" in the historical analysis of a discourse on everyday life of the workers in Polish kolkhozes in communist time.
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