"Open Marxism" and Revival of Sociology: the Role of Julian Hochfeld and Zigmunt Bauman
The article is devoted to the post-war period of the development of Polish sociology, the renaissance of which falls on the mid-fifties of the twentieth century and, in this sense, is for a decade ahead of the Soviet experience of the revival of sociological knowledge. The key ideas of the concept of “Open Marxism” of Julian Hochfeld that entered the annals of the history of sociology with its attempt to move away from orthodox Marxism and develop the principles of a democratic and humane version of socialism. At the same time the ideas of the renewed Marxism of Zygmunt Bauman, the first author of the full course of lectures on the theory of sociology that promotes the adoption of university sociology in post-war Poland, and the formation of the discipline of Sociology of Politics are subjected to careful analysis. The retrospective analysis of the history of Polish sociology presented in the article expands the horizons of understanding the methodological origins of the formation of the Polish sociological school.