Philosophy and nation. On the essence of the romanticism Józef. W. Gołuchowsk

Abstract

The article Philosophy and nation. On the essence of the romanticism of Józef W. Gołuchowski, poses a reconstruction and analysis of the philosophy of a preromantic theoretician coming from Galicia. Through the negation of the tradition of the Enlightenment rationalism, J.W. Gołuchowski promotes the philosophy based on feelings (love) and shows the vision of nation whose spirit and uniqueness cannot be annihilated. Polish state was erased from the political map of the world – Gołuchowski notes – but the spirit of the nation based on the philosophy of ,feelings’ is alive and strives for the synthesis with religion.