@ARTICLE{Przeciszewska_Maria_M._Andrzej_2021, author={Przeciszewska, Maria M.}, number={No 2}, journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria}, pages={63-78}, howpublished={online}, year={2021}, publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN}, publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego}, abstract={The aim of the article is to present the views of Andrzej Walicki on the heritage of the Russian and Polish intelligentsia. His interest in the history of this social group resulted not only from the need for empathic understanding of its worldview(s), but above all from his pursuit of his own self‑definition and the desire to outline his life program. He believed that the main merit of the Russian intelligentsia was the ethos of sacrifice for the lower classes and the experienced imperative to ‘redeem’ the historical blame of the privileged classes. The main contribution of the Polish intelligentsia was the desire to include the lower classes in the modern political community – with the view to creating a civil nation. According to Walicki, the political breakthrough after 1989, along with the ‘shock therapy’, regrettably supported by a majority of the Polish intelligentsia, resulted for many people from the working class in a real pauperization and a major loss of life stability. The necessity to return to the traditional ethos of intelligentsia was (and is) the only way to restore in the social upper strata a sense of responsibility for the lower classes and a willingness to empower them to shape future social relationships.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Andrzej Walicki as an expert on and a critic of the intelligentsia}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/120388/2021-02-PFIL-07-Przeciszewska.pdf}, doi={10.24425/pfns.2021.137371}, keywords={intelligentsia, liberalism, modernisation, political transformation, social emancipation}, }