Negocjowanie nowoczesności w dyskursach Leszka Dunina Borkowskiego

Abstract

Kazimierz Wyka called Leszek Dunin Borkowski is the “enfant terrible” of the Galiciansociety. His entire life (both as an artist and a politician), being an idealistic romantic, hediscoursed on constructing the new social reality understood as accomplishment of a romanticimage of the world and such a need of directing human actions. Borkowski was in‘the minority’ of his own sphere (Parochialism, 1843), venal writers (Cymbalada, 1845),religious institutions (Lech’s Prophecies, 1848) and political correctness (The Rakuski LegislativeSeym with Special Attention to the Polish Mission, 1849; The First Slavic Seym inLvov 1865–1866 by an Eyewitness, 1884). He was also in ‘the minority’ as a pertinaciouscritic of acknowledged authorities (A Little Bit About Stanisław Tarnowski’s Experienceand Contemplations, 1892; Because of the Florian Ziemiałkowski’s Open Letter to Józef Szujski,1867).