Maurycy Carriere, Art and Literature in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Part I [1878]

Translation and supplement: Piotr Chmielowski (1848–1904) [Polish philosopher, literary historian, and critic of the Positivist period; editor of *Ateneum* (1881–1897), professor at the University of Lviv from 1903], translated from the second German edition, supplemented with “An Overview of Polish Poetry in the 19th Century”

Publisher: M. Glücksberg, Warsaw (Printed by J. Ungra)

Year of publication: 1878.

Volume: Volume I: 387 pp. Volume II: 330 pp.

Size: 23 cm.

Binding: Period half-leather.

Moriz Carrière attempted to combine Christian theism with Hegel’s philosophy, presenting the history of art and literature as a process in which the spirit of humanity strives toward the ideals of freedom and harmony. The Polish edition includes an important supplement: an extensive “Overview of Polish Poetry in the 19th Century” by Piotr Chmielowski, who placed Polish Romanticism—with Mickiewicz and Słowacki—within the context of the European trends discussed by Carrière.

A resource for literary historians and scholars of Hegel’s reception in Poland.

Discoloration and stains; the front endpaper has a tear that has been taped.

An item from the 19th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.