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The Category of Myth in the Narrative by Konstanty Michalski, C.M. (1879-1947) on the European History of the First Half of the 20th Century
Abstract
The category of myth in the works by Fr. Konstanty Michalski is manifested in two dimensions. The first one can be found in the philosophy of history, which he studied, and his description of the history of the myth of German National Socialism. The second dimension is his contribution to the development of the theoretical basis of myth as a category, and to the creation of its structure (selecting basic elements). This concept emerges based on the critical analyses of Nazism, his polemics with its makers and with references to education as an area of the implementation of the myth of totalitarian ideology in social life. An inherent question of the narrative concerning the myth of Nazism is the author’s biographical context. Michalski was a humanist, a pupil of the German primary school that brutally germanised Polish children and later a prisoner of the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen. He thus felt obliged to track, analyse and comment on cultural changes and their determinants: totalitarianisms as myths and also great constructive myths of culture. A specific example is the myth of Catholic culture as a proposal for a Polish myth, a myth that was meant to help survive communism.
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Konstanty Michalski, myth, Nazism, philosophy of history, Nazi pedagogyDetails
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