Leszek Koczanowicz is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Cultural Studies Department at University of Lower Silesia (DSW) in Wroclaw. His previous affiliations include Wroclaw University (1977–1997), Opole University (1997–2002), SUNY/Buffalo (1998–1999 and 2000–2001), and Columbia University (2004–2005) where he was Distinguished Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs. He is an author and editor of six books and numerous articles in Polish and English.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Political Time or the Past as a Political IssueMemory of Politics, Politics of Memory: The Politics of the Past in Post-totalitarian PolandMechanisms of Exclusion and InclusionLiberating the Future from the Past: Liberating the Past from the FutureThe Politics of Political Biography: Self-realization, Loyalty, and Political ChangeCivil Society as an Ethical ChallengeLife as Simulacrum: Stanislaw Lem’s Science FictionChapter 2. Social Time or the Ontology of ExpectationsOntology of ExpectationsGenealogy of ExpectationsThe Myth of the Unity of the NationMarxism as a Way of Life: The Failure of an Impossible ProjectThe Mythologies of SolidarityChapter 3. Perspectives on Time: From Philosophy to AnthropologyThe Problem of Time in Pragmatism and PhenomenologyTime, Dialogue, and SocietyTime and Social PracticesPolitics of Memory, Politics of TimeEpilogue: What has Happened to Us? The Rise of Post-post-communismThe Emergence of Post-post-communism or Populist Post-communismWhat is Post-post-communism?Democracy against Democracy or Who has Hijacked the Common Background?Possible Scenarios and Two ConservatismsNew Tribalism, Post-post-communism, and the Politics of TimeEpilogue – SupplementAppendix: Post-communism and Pop Music: Annihilation or Restoration of Memory in Disco-poloTwo Views on Disco-polo: Intellectuals’ “Horror Vacui” and the Nation’s Hope “All Poles” or What is Disco-polo?The Glorious Past and the Slavic SoulIn Opposition to the WestDisco-polo and the Dilemmas of Polish Past and PresentNotesBibliographyIndex

Leszek Koczanowicz is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Cultural Studies Department at University of Lower Silesia (DSW) in Wroclaw. His previous affiliations include Wroclaw University (1977–1997), Opole University (1997–2002), SUNY/Buffalo (1998–1999 and 2000–2001), and Columbia University (2004–2005) where he was Distinguished Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs. He is an author and editor of six books and numerous articles in Polish and English.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Political Time or the Past as a Political IssueMemory of Politics, Politics of Memory: The Politics of the Past in Post-totalitarian PolandMechanisms of Exclusion and InclusionLiberating the Future from the Past: Liberating the Past from the FutureThe Politics of Political Biography: Self-realization, Loyalty, and Political ChangeCivil Society as an Ethical ChallengeLife as Simulacrum: Stanislaw Lem’s Science FictionChapter 2. Social Time or the Ontology of ExpectationsOntology of ExpectationsGenealogy of ExpectationsThe Myth of the Unity of the NationMarxism as a Way of Life: The Failure of an Impossible ProjectThe Mythologies of SolidarityChapter 3. Perspectives on Time: From Philosophy to AnthropologyThe Problem of Time in Pragmatism and PhenomenologyTime, Dialogue, and SocietyTime and Social PracticesPolitics of Memory, Politics of TimeEpilogue: What has Happened to Us? The Rise of Post-post-communismThe Emergence of Post-post-communism or Populist Post-communismWhat is Post-post-communism?Democracy against Democracy or Who has Hijacked the Common Background?Possible Scenarios and Two ConservatismsNew Tribalism, Post-post-communism, and the Politics of TimeEpilogue – SupplementAppendix: Post-communism and Pop Music: Annihilation or Restoration of Memory in Disco-poloTwo Views on Disco-polo: Intellectuals’ “Horror Vacui” and the Nation’s Hope “All Poles” or What is Disco-polo?The Glorious Past and the Slavic SoulIn Opposition to the WestDisco-polo and the Dilemmas of Polish Past and PresentNotesBibliographyIndex

Leszek Koczanowicz is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Cultural Studies Department at University of Lower Silesia (DSW) in Wroclaw. His previous affiliations include Wroclaw University (1977–1997), Opole University (1997–2002), SUNY/Buffalo (1998–1999 and 2000–2001), and Columbia University (2004–2005) where he was Distinguished Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs. He is an author and editor of six books and numerous articles in Polish and English.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Political Time or the Past as a Political IssueMemory of Politics, Politics of Memory: The Politics of the Past in Post-totalitarian PolandMechanisms of Exclusion and InclusionLiberating the Future from the Past: Liberating the Past from the FutureThe Politics of Political Biography: Self-realization, Loyalty, and Political ChangeCivil Society as an Ethical ChallengeLife as Simulacrum: Stanislaw Lem’s Science FictionChapter 2. Social Time or the Ontology of ExpectationsOntology of ExpectationsGenealogy of ExpectationsThe Myth of the Unity of the NationMarxism as a Way of Life: The Failure of an Impossible ProjectThe Mythologies of SolidarityChapter 3. Perspectives on Time: From Philosophy to AnthropologyThe Problem of Time in Pragmatism and PhenomenologyTime, Dialogue, and SocietyTime and Social PracticesPolitics of Memory, Politics of TimeEpilogue: What has Happened to Us? The Rise of Post-post-communismThe Emergence of Post-post-communism or Populist Post-communismWhat is Post-post-communism?Democracy against Democracy or Who has Hijacked the Common Background?Possible Scenarios and Two ConservatismsNew Tribalism, Post-post-communism, and the Politics of TimeEpilogue – SupplementAppendix: Post-communism and Pop Music: Annihilation or Restoration of Memory in Disco-poloTwo Views on Disco-polo: Intellectuals’ “Horror Vacui” and the Nation’s Hope “All Poles” or What is Disco-polo?The Glorious Past and the Slavic SoulIn Opposition to the WestDisco-polo and the Dilemmas of Polish Past and PresentNotesBibliographyIndex