New Developments in the Theory of the Historical Process

Preface

“…Idealization and Concretization in Leszek Nowak by Giacomo Borbone was the first monograph in English devoted to Leszek Nowak -a Polish philosopher, cofounder of Poznań School of Methodology and an author of the idealizational theory of science in the philosophy of science, the analytical reconstruction of Marxism, non-Marxian historical materialism in the philosophy of history, and negativistic unitarian metaphysics (on Nowak output and its impact, see: Brzeziński et al, eds. 2007;Brzechczyn 2022, Brzechczyn, ed. 2022.…”

Preliminary Material

“…In comparative historical sociology, Marxian intuitions are broadened by associating them with Max Weber's concepts. Within the framework of that scientific subdiscipline, the mutual autonomy and independence of the economy, politics, and culture is assumed (Brzechczyn 2007b).…”

On Historical Context of Leszek Nowak’s Idealizational Conception of Science

“…in philosophy (Husserl, Cassirer). The fact of the multiplicity of approaches to modelling in science has been raised by Leszek Nowak himself (Nowak 1971, 1992, Brzechczyn 2019, 2022a, 2022bWajzer 2022). The merit of Borbone's book is that it introduces other cognitive approaches into the "salons of idealization" and thus broadens the scope of possible understanding of the modelling procedure at hand [using idealization], especially since in the case of Ernst Cassirer or Edmund Husserl we are dealing with anti-naturalistic and ontological-epistemological approaches that definitely go beyond methodological approaches (of the philosophy of science).…”