National and universal in the philosophy of Jerzy Braun

National and universal in the philosophy of Jerzy Braun

Bibliographic description

title:	National and universal in the philosophy of Jerzy Braun
author:	Łętocha Rafał
Journal title:	Dialogue and Universalism
Title of volume:	Universalism in Polish thought
volume:	17
issue:	3-4
date of publication:	2007
pages:	75-84
ISSN:	1234-5792
eISSN:	1689-3816
language:	English
Journal language:	English
abstract in english:	Jerzy Braun (1901-1975) began as a scout activist, in subsequent years he became known as a politician, poet, prose writer, playwright, screenwriter, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian. In the inter-war years he founded and edited the periodicals Gazeta Literacka [Literary Gazette] and Zet, he also headed the Hoene-Wroński Society which propagated the thought of Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński. Under the Nazi occupation he founded and headed the underground organization Unia grouping Poland’s leading intellectuals. Unia propounded a universalistic program of integrating nations and states whose outlines Braun had laid down before the war. Braun’s unionism theory, in which he strove for a harmonious combination of national and universal ideas, was based on 19th-century concepts developed by, among others, Bronisław Trentowski, August Cieszkowski and, of course, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński. Imprisoned by the communists after the war, in the 1960s Braun attended the Vaticanum II sessions as an unofficial ecumenism expert.
keywords in english:	univesalizm, union, unionism, messianism, nationalism, Jerzy Braun, nation
affiliation:	Wydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Religioznawstwa
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper