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Uczeni emigracyjni jako „agenci westernizacji”? Refleksje porównawcze na przykładach Polski i Niemiec
ORCID: Kai Johann Willms: 0009-0009-6095-1186
Afiliacja: University of Basel
Strony: 245–264
Wydanie: Lublin 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36874/RIESW.2025.4.10
Sposób cytowania: K. J. Willms, Émigré scholars as “agents of Westernisation”? Comparative reflections on the cases of Poland and Germany, „Yearbook of the Institute of East-Central Europe” 23 2025), issue 4, pp. 245–264, DOI: https://doi.org/10.36874/RIESW.2025.4.10
Słowa kluczowe: “Westernisation”, circulation of ideas, comparative research, exile, transnationalism
Keywords: “Westernisation”, circulation of ideas, comparative research, exile, transnationalism
Abstrakt: Exile is a profoundly transcultural phenomenon: Émigré scholars bring knowledge and ideas from their homeland to their host societies, gain new insights from their position between two cultures, and have the potential to initiate intellectual transformations at home. The 20th-century waves of intellectual migration from Europe to North America established new connections between both sides of the Atlantic, introducing European knowledge into the American discourse while simultaneously facilitating the circulation of ideas back to Europe. The present article uses this process of “Westernisation” as a tertium comparationis for comparative reflections on the 20th-century intellectual emigration from Poland and Germany. It argues that the two émigré communities were not as structurally different as a superficial reading of the existing literature might suggest, and that the “Westernising” effects of intellectual migration could be a fruitful area for future comparative research on these two national cases.
Słowa kluczowe: “Westernisation”, circulation of ideas, comparative research, exile, transnationalism
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