A history of the Polish intelligentsia

• Introduction: The Black Gown
• p. 7

• Chapter 1
• The situation of the Polish intelligentsia after the January Insurrection
• p. 13

• 1
• Professional development opportunities
• p. 13

• 2
• The development of capitalism and opportunities for the intelligentsia
• p. 21

• 3
• Liberal professions
• p. 23

• 4
• New sources of the intelligentsia
• p. 25

• Chapter 2
• Styles of life
• p. 41

• 1
• The financial and property elites
• p. 41

• 2
• The provincial intelligentsia and the 'intelligent proletariat'
• p. 48

• 3
• An artistic bohemia
• p. 61

• Chapter 3
• The development conditions of a national culture
• p. 63

• 1
• The conditions of scientific and artistic work
• p. 63

• 2
• Inter-Partition contacts
• p. 68

• 3
• Knowledge and talents leaking out
• p. 70

• Chapter 4
• The ideological debates of the 2 nd half of the 19 th century
• p. 83

• 1
• The Galician milieus: the birth of the Stanczyk faction and the Krakow historical school. The Democrats and Positivists of Krakow
• p. 84

• 2
• Warsaw Positivism
• p. 89

• 3
• The means of social influence
• p. 106

• 4
• The self-stereotype of the Polish intelligentsia in the 2 nd half of the 19 th century
• p. 119

• Chapter 5
• At the century's turn
• p. 123

• 1
• The anti-Positivistic breakthrough; socialism and nationalism
• p. 124

• 2
• Renovation movements in the late 19 th /early 20 th century
• p. 132

• 3
• Generational differences
• p. 136

• 4
• Promoting Polish education in society
• p. 139

• 5
• The Revolution of 1905-7
• p. 149

• 6
• Being a Polish twentieth-century intellectual in Poznan, Krakow and Warsaw
• p. 163

• Chapter 6
• The Polish intelligentsia in Europe. The influence of pan-European trends on Poland
• p. 169

• 1
• Polish milieus in foreign lands
• p. 169

• 2
• Young Poland: between community commitment and decadence
• p. 181

• 3
• The First World War
• p. 192

• Conclusion
• p. 207

• Index
• p. 217