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The aim of this paper is to respond to the objections raised by Jürgen Habermas in his work The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity against Michel Foucault's concept of genealogical critique. In my response I draw primarily on Foucault's methodological texts and I demonstrate the strong connections of his ideas to the French historical epistemology of Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem. This connections concern mainly the ideas of the „recurrent method” and the „history of error” developed in this tradition. I argue that these ideas refute Habermas' allegations against Foucault's view of history (presentism) as well as his approach to the problem of truth (relativism). At the concluding part of my paper I focus on Foucault's concept of freedom, emphasizing the practical and „anti‑romantic” character of this concept and its connection to the Marxian idea of emancipation (the objection of cryptonormativism). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is a review of Michał Paweł Markowski's book Powszechna rozwiązłość (Universal promiscuity) devoted to the work of Bruno Schulz. The author acknowledges that certain elements of Markowski's reading - such as pointing to the links between Schulz and German Romanticism - are of undeniable value. However, the main line of the reading which sets Schulz's work against the background of Hegel's and Nietzsche's philosophy is criticized as shallow and inconsistent. Moreover, whereas the author agrees with Markowski's criticism of Władysław Panas's all too theological reading of Schulz, he also tries to show that a more subtle interpretation of Schulz's work in messianic terms does more justice to it than the one offered by Markowski. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a review of the book, "Zeszyty Naukowe Kaliskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego," a special yearbook published by the Medical Society of Kalisz, Poland, edited by Dr. Zbigniew Kledecki.

This article is a review of the book, "Gwary Białoruskie na Łotwie w Rejonie Krasławskim: Studium Socjolingwistyczne," written by Mirosław Jankowiak. The work is part of the series, "Język na pograniczach," published by the Instytut Slawistyki PAN.