The article aims at restoring local self-government as a research problem of political theory. In contemporary political science literature, local self-government is not treated as one of its normal, standard research problems. The main obstacle of its ambiguous position within political theory is, as I argue, the forced and imposed apolitical character of local self-government considered as a part of public administration. Despite some degree of organizational, especially institutional and legal, self-determination, the local self-government is not a political, i.e. sovereign entity. However, its non-sovereign status, which is legally established, does not exclude the existence of political potency in it.

Block, amerykański ekonomista i fi lozof polityki, jest przypadkiem szczególnym wśród libertarian, nawet anarchokapitalistów, do których się zalicza, ponieważ przy jego obronie określonych zachowań uznawanych za niemoralne i często bezprawne-takich jak prostytucji, handlu narkotykami, szantażu, a nawet dobrowolnego niewolnictwa-typowa retoryka libertariańska o państwie jako złodzieju okazuje się całkiem umiarkowana i stonowana. W swojej pracy zatytułowanej Defending the Undefendable (co można przetłumaczyć jako "Obronić to, co nie jest do obrony") 1 Block, jak sam twierdzi, bierze w obronę tych, których społe

Carl Schmitt in Polish political-science interpretations 1984–2007The article discusses Polish political-science interpretations of the German legal and political theorist Carl Schmitt. It gives an overview of the main literature published between the 1980s and 2000s. Polish political scientists became interested in Schmitt only after a period of intensive studies conducted by lawyers. Polish political science, ideologically oriented during the times of the communist regime, took its leading role in Schmitt’s reception with the transformation of Poland’s political system. Interestingly, the flow of new translations of Schmitt’s writings in the first decades of the century shifted the reception substantially and moved it towards more philosophical and theological interpretations. The interpretations present in the field of political science have been divided into two kinds based on different methodologies: the first, focused on Schmitt as a political theorist, which aims at introducing his substantial contributions to political science, and the second, which focuses on Schmitt as a representative of conservatism. The article may serve as a practical introduction to Polish political-science research on Schmitt.

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