Andrzej Stanisław Walicki (15 May 1930 – 20 August 2020) was a Polish historian. He was a professor at the

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. He specialized in philosophy of sociopolitics, history of

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and

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and liberal thought. He was one of the scholars who formed the "Warsaw school of the

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". Walicki was born in

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. He was the son of the art historian,

Michał Walicki Michał Marian Walicki (8 August 1904 in St. Petersburg – 22 August 1966 in Warsaw) was a Polish art historian and professor at the Warsaw University of Technology and School of Fine Arts (later Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw). Life and work F ...

. He studied at the universities of

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and

. He obtained his PhD in 1957, and became a full professor in 1972. From 1981 to 1986, he lectured at the

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, and from 1986 at University of Notre Dame. He was awarded a fellowship by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1978. In 1998, he won

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for his contribution to the study of the Russian and Polish cultural and social history, and also the study of European culture in the 19th century.

Books in English

* ''The Slavophile controversy: history of a conservative utopia in nineteenth-century Russian thought'' (1975) * ''A history of Russian thought from the enlightenment to Marxism'' (1979) * ''Philosophy and romantic nationalism: the case of Poland'' (1982) * ''Legal philosophies of Russian liberalism'' (1987) * ''The three traditions in Polish patriotism and their contemporary relevance'' (1988) * ''The Enlightenment and the birth of modern nationhood: Polish political thought from Noble Republicanism to Tadeusz Kosciuszko'' (1989) * ''Stanisław Brzozowski and the Polish beginnings of «Western Marxism»'' (1989) * ''Russia, Poland, and universal regeneration: studies on Russian and Polish thought of the romantic epoch'' (1991) * ''Poland between East and West: the controversies over self-definition and modernization in partitioned Poland'' (1994) * ''Marxism and the leap to the kingdom of freedom: the rise and fall of the Communist utopia'' (1995)

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External links

Books by Walicki
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, including full texts of the Polish editions of many of the books listed above (as well as English texts of ''Philosophy and Romantic nationalism'', ''Russia, Poland, and universal regeneration'', and ''The Controversy over Capitalism'') * * Contents 5: The Slavophile Thinkers + the 1863 Polish Question - Andrzej Walicki page 89, Polish Encounters Russian Identity'' (Indiana University Press 2005) https://www.google.com/books/edition/Polish_Encounters_Russian_Identity/ZhWR_QrNxF8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA89&printsec=frontcover * 1930 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers University of Notre Dame faculty Writers from Warsaw University of Canberra faculty {{Poland-academic-bio-stub