- Author:
Christoph Wulf
- E-mail:
chrwulf@zedat.fu-berlin.de
- Institution:
Freie Universität Berlin
- Year of publication:
2021
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
13-24
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2021.04.01
- PDF:
kie/134/kie13401.pdf
The upcoming transformations of today’s societies into sustainable societies pose numerous problems. To avoid the destruction of the foundations of life in the Anthropocene, a profound social and cultural transformation encompassing all areas of life is required. To know how this can be accomplished requires extensive research and knowledge, the reliability of which plays an important role. The more open and diverse the global world becomes, the more difficult it is to determine which facts are important and what consequences can be drawn from them for human action. Instead of a reflexive approach to the results of scientific research, today one often encounters a populist approach to science. Its results are used to support preconceived opinions. One is not interested in new findings but aims at the disparagement of people of other opinions and their hateful insult. A destructive division of society is the result of the debates that are so important for the future of humanity.
- Author:
Maria Rółkowska
- ORCID:
0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-9092
- Author:
Janusz Gerasik
- ORCID:
0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8547-6782
- Year of publication:
2021
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
197-218
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/pbs.2021.08
- PDF:
pbs/9/pbs908.pdf
The aim of the article is to present a part of the biography of Sygurd Wiśniowski – a 19th-century traveler, writer and industrialist who appeared quite unexpectedly in the Polish press and was almost as quickly forgotten. The article is an attempt to present the possibility of using scattered press releases and epistolography in biographical studies. The value of press reports as a source of the facts is proved by a number of thematic studies. The atricle is based on a query of Polish press and Polish diaspora press and completed with an analysis of the traveler’s private letters, which allowed to verify the facts. Information obtained from the numerous press titles and letters suplement the current state of research with unknown or weakly known facts, making it possible to build an outline of a biography documented in the sources. The studies showed that a number of biographical findings about Sygurd Wiśniowski, which are established in the current literature on the subject, requires correction, and research in this field of press sources is promising.