Kazimierz Radosław Elehard baron Kelles-Krauz (22 March 1872 – 24 June 1905) was a Polish philosopher and sociologist, member of the Polish Socialist Party. He was one of the most significant Marxist thinkers at the end of the 19th century.
Kelles-Krauz was born in Szczebrzeszyn, Russian Empire and died in Pernitz, Austria-Hungary.
His greatest contribution to sociology is the " law of retrospective revolution" according to which "the ideals with which each reform movement tries to replace existing social norms are always similar to the norms of a more or less distant past".
Yale's Timothy Snyder argues that Kelles-Krauz, writing two decades before Hans Kohn and Carlton Hayes, ought to be among the small cluster of turn-of-the-century thinkers regarded as the pioneers of the modern study of nationalism.
Family
He was the son of nobleman and landowner Michał Wilhelm Elehard Kelles-Krauz and Matylda Daniewska. He had three younger brothers, Jan Jakub, Bohdan, Stanisław Maciej and sister Matylda. [1] His youngest brother Stanisław Maciej was also a PPS activist, senator of the Second Polish Republic (1928-30) and Polish ambassador to Denmark after the Second World War, married to PPS activist Maria Helena Nynkowska. [1]
Kazimierz married PPS activist Maria Katarzyna Goldsteyn, with whom he had a daughter, Janina, a workers' activist and employee of the Ossolineum. [1]
References
- ^ a b c "Kazimierz Radosław Elehard bar. Kelles-Krauz". Wielka Genealogia Minakowskiego - M.J. Minakowski. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
Further reading
- Marxism and Sociology: A Selection of Writings by Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, edited by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, Leiden: Brill (2018). First published in Polish as Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz: Marksizm a socjologia. Wybór pism by Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (2014)
- Snyder, Timothy (1997). "Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872–1905): A pioneering scholar of modern nationalism" (PDF). Nations and Nationalism. 3 (2): 231–250. doi: 10.1111/j.1354-5078.1997.00231.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 23, 2009.
- Snyder, Timothy (1998). Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Snyder, Timothy (1999). "A Polish Socialist For Jewish Nationality: Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872-1905)" (PDF). Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. 12: 257–271. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-15.
External links
- Polish Philosophy Page: Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz at the Wayback Machine (archived January 9, 2008)
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Kazimierz Radosław Elehard baron Kelles-Krauz (22 March 1872 – 24 June 1905) was a Polish philosopher and sociologist, member of the Polish Socialist Party. He was one of the most significant Marxist thinkers at the end of the 19th century.
Kelles-Krauz was born in Szczebrzeszyn, Russian Empire and died in Pernitz, Austria-Hungary.
His greatest contribution to sociology is the " law of retrospective revolution" according to which "the ideals with which each reform movement tries to replace existing social norms are always similar to the norms of a more or less distant past".
Yale's Timothy Snyder argues that Kelles-Krauz, writing two decades before Hans Kohn and Carlton Hayes, ought to be among the small cluster of turn-of-the-century thinkers regarded as the pioneers of the modern study of nationalism.
Family
He was the son of nobleman and landowner Michał Wilhelm Elehard Kelles-Krauz and Matylda Daniewska. He had three younger brothers, Jan Jakub, Bohdan, Stanisław Maciej and sister Matylda. [1] His youngest brother Stanisław Maciej was also a PPS activist, senator of the Second Polish Republic (1928-30) and Polish ambassador to Denmark after the Second World War, married to PPS activist Maria Helena Nynkowska. [1]
Kazimierz married PPS activist Maria Katarzyna Goldsteyn, with whom he had a daughter, Janina, a workers' activist and employee of the Ossolineum. [1]
References
- ^ a b c "Kazimierz Radosław Elehard bar. Kelles-Krauz". Wielka Genealogia Minakowskiego - M.J. Minakowski. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
Further reading
- Marxism and Sociology: A Selection of Writings by Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, edited by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, Leiden: Brill (2018). First published in Polish as Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz: Marksizm a socjologia. Wybór pism by Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (2014)
- Snyder, Timothy (1997). "Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872–1905): A pioneering scholar of modern nationalism" (PDF). Nations and Nationalism. 3 (2): 231–250. doi: 10.1111/j.1354-5078.1997.00231.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 23, 2009.
- Snyder, Timothy (1998). Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Snyder, Timothy (1999). "A Polish Socialist For Jewish Nationality: Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872-1905)" (PDF). Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. 12: 257–271. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-15.
External links
- Polish Philosophy Page: Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz at the Wayback Machine (archived January 9, 2008)
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