Abstract

The article depicts an historical profile of Polish philosophy, highlighting on one side its belonging to the super-national context of European thought, and identifying on the other its moments of original and specific theoretical elaboration. First among them is messianism, with its main characters operating during the first half of the 19th century, and it is clearly recognized as a philosophy tied to the peculiar social and political conditions of Poland, which were anyway important for the destiny of Europe as a whole. At the antipodes of messianism, as a reaction to it, we find logical research, one of the most productive of Polish philosophical reflection, which has known multiple declinations. One of the distinctive features of Polish thought is also its own placement, in full awareness, as a meeting point between Europe and its eastern border – not only geographical – Russia