@ARTICLE{Zegzuła-Nowak_Joanna_Around_2021, author={Zegzuła-Nowak, Joanna}, number={No 3}, journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria}, pages={75-94}, howpublished={online}, year={2021}, publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN}, publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego}, abstract={The article presents the problem of shaping national identity out of individual ethnic identity in the light of Mieczysław Wallis’ intellectual biography. As a representative of the second generation of the Lvov‑Warsaw school, he belonged to the group of several 20th‑century Polish humanists of the Jewish extraction. This condition left an indelible mark in his intellectual biography. Being aware of his ethnic background, he struggled for many years against the stigma of anti‑Semitism (in the form of social depreciation and racial categorization), yet he remained strongly attached to his Polish identity. He confirmed his resolution in everyday attitudes and in his writing. Repeatedly giving proof of his civic and patriotic attitudes, he fought for the survival of the Polish identity in the duties of the soldier, and continued to perform his cultural and educational activities during his internment as a prisoner‑of‑war for the period of several years. Then, after the war, he engulfed himself in academic activity in Poland, and constructed a specific program of aestheticization of reality, intended as a form of intellectual opposition to the manifestations of abhorrent ethnic discrimination culminating in disastrous dehumanizing effects. Following the indications contained in the archivized notes on and by Wallis, the author attempts to select, analyze and interpret these biographical clues, and she highlights the philosopher’s statements that reveal his personal experiences, reflections and views relating to the issue of national affiliation and identity. They inspire hope for finding out which factors were decisive in influencing Wallis’ life and intellectual interests.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Around the issue of national identity: Mieczysław Wallis’ settlements with the Polishness}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/121114/2021-03-PFIL-04-Zegzula.pdf}, doi={10.24425/pfns.2021.138101}, keywords={aestheticization of the world, anti‑Semitism, archival materials, Lvov‑Warsaw School, national identity, M. Wallis}, }