This website presents the results of the research project “Polonica Philosophica Orientalia. Philosophy in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 16th to18th century and the Historiography of Philosophy in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine”, funded by the National Programme for the Development of Humanities of the Republic of Poland.
The project aims at making sources accessible, describing, transcribing, translating and commenting on them, as well as commonly interpreting the history of philosophy in this part of Europe. Within the framework of the project, we are preparing a series of editions from manuscript sources and two monographs concerning intellectual geography and political theory.
Coordinated at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, the project brings together scientists from the following institutions:
H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Vilnius
Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Kyiv
Library of the University of Vilnius
The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Vilnius
Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk
Intellectual life in the region was linked closely to the Polish and the Lithuanian states and their confederations starting from the Jagiellonian times, the Ukrainian and Belarusian states and other forms of collective identity. Thus, the project focuses on the relationships between philosophy and politics. The research covers a variety of regions, their institutional landscape and the different nation-building processes. We reflect on the following and similar questions:
How did philosophers react to political problems, and how did they try to influence political life?
To what extent did they maintain the Jagiellonian legacy in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine?
Which arguments helped philosophers to criticize the Jagiellonian heritage?
Which elements of the political culture of the Jagiellonian period made their way into the political and cultural narrations of our countries?
Project Coordination and contact: Steffen Huber, Jagiellonian University, Cracow
Leszek Augustyn
Francesco Cabras
Michał Heintze
Marcin Karas
Tomasz Kupś
Maria Poszepczyńska
Magdalena Ryszka-Kurczab
Marek Sławiński
Hanna Szabelska
Anna Treter
Anna Żymełka-Pietrzak
Dalius Viliūnas, team leader
Matas Grubliauskas
Živilė Pabijutaitė
Vytis Valatka
Vesta Šiaudvydytė
Valery Yevarousky, team leader
Ihar Bortnik
Vladimir Ignatov
Alena Padalinskaya
Uladzimir Padalinsky
Siarhey Sanko
Serhii Yosypenko, team leader
Larysa Dovha
Oleksandr Kyrychok
Yaroslava Stratii
Mykola Symchych
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