O kształcie debaty publicznej (casus intelektualisty)

Abstract

The study comprises material from press articles that deal with the notion of “intelligentsia” from the year 2006. The discussion, focused on the burning question whether a social group of “intelligentsia” really exists, whether there are any distinguishing features of the group, and who might be included in it, has been prompted by recalling A. Solzhenitsyn’s derogatory statement describing this social sub-class, i.e. his remarks on "obrazovanschina". Different positions that include diametrically opposing interpretations are then presented, from the characterization proposed by K. Libelt to present-day definitions. The material has been investigated with the application of interdisciplinary tools. The anthropological approach to ritualisation has proved to be particularly useful, as well as the findings and established facts related to the rationality of communicative action formulated by J. Habermas.