Aleksandra Jasińska-Kania

• Professor Dr hab.
• University of Warsaw

This conversation between Zygmunt Bauman and Aleksandra Kania picks up on the themes of crisis, interregnum and the decline of the West. Decline of the West is first of all decline of western civilization. This easily leads to panic about the end of the world; what it really indicates is the limits and constraints of a world system based on nation-...

This paper offers a memoir of living with Zygmunt Bauman. It begins with the early encounter of Bauman and Aleksandra Kania in Warsaw in 1954, where both were Masters students working with the humanist Marxist Adam Schaff. Kania and Bauman followed their separate life paths for decades, though they were both postwar communists and reconstructionist...

Using data from the 2007 survey on "Realms of Exclusion in Poland" this article examines Poles' attitudes toward immigrants and ethnic minorities, particularly Roma, Jews, Vietnamese, and Ukrainians. The analysis explores the relationship between the criteria of inclusion of foreigners in the Polish nation and opinions on the reasons for their excl...

The chapter analyzes the assignment, perceptions, and representations of the roles of aggressors, offenders, victims, and witnesses in Polish relations with Germans, Russians, and Jews in the aftermath of World War II as reflected in recent public discourse in Poland. Analysis will focus on debates triggered in Poland by the following issues: (1) t...

This article presents achievements resulting from the unexpectedly dynamic development of the sociology of emotions since the 1970s. It recalls traditions of studying emotions from the classics of sociology and discusses why those traditions were forgotten for several decades. Sources of the recent rise of sociological interest in emotions are soug...

This article examines relationships between local, national, and global identifications of political leaders and their promotion of the democratic values of political equality, popular participation in politics, pluralism, and toleration of conflicts. The data are taken from the ‘Democracy and Local Governance’ comparative research programme, which...

Wenn man das Problem, das den Gegenstand unserer Konferenz „Die gegenwärtige Relevanz der Arbeiten von Karl Marx und Max Weber“ darstellt, in einer bestimmten Art und Weise interpretiert, erscheint es unkorrekt formuliert und einer rationalen Analyse nicht zugänglich. L. Kołakowski argumentiert zum Beispiel, „daß weder die Frage, auf welche Weise s...

Uses the example of Poland as a case study to show how the development of national identity follows the same laws as individual identity formation. Findings from research on Polish values and attitudes toward their own society and other countries are presented. (AM)