Stanley Bill
Biographic Data
| ID | 1554698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stanley Bill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stanley |
| FAMILY NAME | Bill |
| SIGNATURE | BILL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4898-6641 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Surplus of Meaning
Adam Mickiewicz's long poem Pan Tadeusz (1834) has often enjoyed an almost sacrosanct status in Polish culture, as the national epic and pinnacle of poetic expression in the language. This elevated position is not reflected in its standing outside the country. In his own time, Mickiewicz was a minor celebrity in exile, especially in France and Russia. But he has not entered the European canon in an enduring way as a national champion on the level…
Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland
This article examines the challenges facing governments aiming to restore liberal democratic institutions after illiberal rule. It uses the case study of Poland under Donald Tusk’s current government—which defeated populist Law and Justice (PiS) in 2023—to construct a wider conceptual framework for understanding dilemmas of post-illiberal reform that may also confront other democracies. A key legacy of democratic backsliding is a series of instit…
Polish Studies and the “Decolonization” Paradigm after Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Serdecznie witamy na eJournals. Portalu Czasopism Naukowych! eJournals to nie tylko platforma do publikowana online, ale również doświadczony zespół Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oferujący wsparcie dla Redakcji czasopism w zakresie prowadzenia i rozwoju Czasopisma. Misją eJournals jest wspieranie polskich naukowców oraz zapewnienie przedstawicielom redakcji Czasopism profesjonalnej pomocy w ciągłym podnoszeniu ich poziomu i utrzymaniu …
The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature
The aim of this article is to analyze Wisława Szymborska's poem Writing a Résumé, written in the late 1970s, which is a reflection on a seemingly simple event of filling in an official form. By juxtaposing incongruous details and playing with antinomies and paradoxes, the Polish poetess shows the process of reducing an individual biography to impersonal official information, prompting the reader to reflect on the relationship between authenticity…
Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity
This book presents Czesław Miłosz’s poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of religious faith, transcendence, and the value of the human individual against what he viewed as dangerous modern forms of materialism. The Polish Nobel laureate saw the reductive “biologization” of human life as a root cause of the historical tragedies he had witnessed under Nazi German and Soviet regimes in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. Th…
Conclusion: Belief in the Body
This Conclusion summarizes the book’s interpretation of Czesław Miłosz’s work as a paradoxically materialist response to what he sees as the violent historical consequences of reductive forms of materialism. The emphasis is placed on deeper exploration of the body as Miłosz’s answer to the dehumanization and secularization that supposedly threaten the human individual in modern times, and on the potential for “transcendence” through material or s…
Beyond the Body: Reinventing Transcendence
Chapter 1 examines Miłosz’s poetic attempts to salvage a non-bodily, “transcendent” dimension of human identity from reductively materialist perspectives. It begins with a brief introduction of his understanding of the “death of God” in Western culture, before presenting a sustained interpretation of a poem exemplifying his own resistance—an uncertain defense of transcendent human “meaning,” partly represented by poetry itself. This discussion of…
Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature
Counter-Elite Populism and Civil Society in Poland: PiS’s Strategies of Elite Replacement
This article shows how Poland’s ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), is attempting to apply its general strategy of “elite replacement” in a modified way to civil society. Since independent civil society organizations are not subject to arbitrary state control of appointments (unlike public institutions), this strategy has required a more complex dual approach of pressure and promotion. Organizations perceived as hostile to the party and its valu…
Whose Poland is it to be? PiS and the struggle between monism and pluralism
Since 2015, the Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) governments in Poland have engineered a revolt against the post-1989 ‘liberal consensus' and a shift towards a regime rooted in executive aggrandisement, populism and nativism. In this article, we contextualise this shift in terms of a persistent ‘metapolitical’ dispute over the legitimacy of political actors and the contestability of certain areas of policy. PiS claims to be reintrodu…
Propaganda on the Margins: Bruno Schulz's Soviet Illustrations, 1940–41
In 2016, Ukrainian historians uncovered a previously unknown set of propaganda illustrations produced by the Polish-Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) for the Soviet newspaper, Bil'shovits'ka Pravda (Bolshevik Truth) in 1940–41 during the occupation of eastern Poland. This article presents the first comprehensive interpretations of the newly discovered materials in their social, political and historical contexts. The article uses a…
Milosz and the Problem of Evil
Dualism, Dostoevskii and the Devil in History: Czesław Miłosz's ‘Neo-Manichaean’ Theory of Russian Culture
This article proposes that the genesis of Polish poet Czesław Miłosz's frequently discussed ‘Manichaean world-view was closely tied to his engagement with Russian religious thought and his childhood experiences of Russian history. Subsequently, Miłosz constructed an idiosyncratic theory inscribing a variant of the ‘Manichaean heresy into the historical development of Russian culture, linking this religious tradition to the rise of Bolshevism. The…
W poszukiwaniu autentyczności: Kultura polska i natura teorii postkolonialnej
W Polsce, teoria postkolonialna okazała się bardzo atrakcyjna dla myślicieli związanych z konserwatywną prawicą. Jest to zaskakujące, gdy wziąć pod uwagę fakt, że w swoich kanonicznych formach teoria postkolonialna bardzo dużo zawdzięcza teoriom marksistowskim, postmodernistycznym czy feministycznym. Autor rozpoczyna ten artykuł od zbadania owego paradoksu, dociekając, dlaczego omawiana teoria jest tak atrakcyjna dla konserwatywnych intelektualis…
Melting in the Mirror: Woman, Body and Self in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz
Counter-Elite Populism and Civil Society in Poland: PiS’s Strategies of Elite Replacement
This article shows how Poland’s ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), is attempting to apply its general strategy of “elite replacement” in a modified way to civil society. Since independent civil society organizations are not subject to arbitrary state control of appointments (unlike public institutions), this strategy has required a more complex dual approach of pressure and promotion. Organizations perceived as hostile to the party and its valu…
Whose Poland is it to be? PiS and the struggle between monism and pluralism
Since 2015, the Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) governments in Poland have engineered a revolt against the post-1989 ‘liberal consensus' and a shift towards a regime rooted in executive aggrandisement, populism and nativism. In this article, we contextualise this shift in terms of a persistent ‘metapolitical’ dispute over the legitimacy of political actors and the contestability of certain areas of policy. PiS claims to be reintrodu…
Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland
This article examines the challenges facing governments aiming to restore liberal democratic institutions after illiberal rule. It uses the case study of Poland under Donald Tusk’s current government—which defeated populist Law and Justice (PiS) in 2023—to construct a wider conceptual framework for understanding dilemmas of post-illiberal reform that may also confront other democracies. A key legacy of democratic backsliding is a series of instit…
W poszukiwaniu autentyczności: Kultura polska i natura teorii postkolonialnej
W Polsce, teoria postkolonialna okazała się bardzo atrakcyjna dla myślicieli związanych z konserwatywną prawicą. Jest to zaskakujące, gdy wziąć pod uwagę fakt, że w swoich kanonicznych formach teoria postkolonialna bardzo dużo zawdzięcza teoriom marksistowskim, postmodernistycznym czy feministycznym. Autor rozpoczyna ten artykuł od zbadania owego paradoksu, dociekając, dlaczego omawiana teoria jest tak atrakcyjna dla konserwatywnych intelektualis…
Melting in the Mirror: Woman, Body and Self in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz
Milosz and the Problem of Evil
Dualism, Dostoevskii and the Devil in History: Czesław Miłosz's ‘Neo-Manichaean’ Theory of Russian Culture
This article proposes that the genesis of Polish poet Czesław Miłosz's frequently discussed ‘Manichaean world-view was closely tied to his engagement with Russian religious thought and his childhood experiences of Russian history. Subsequently, Miłosz constructed an idiosyncratic theory inscribing a variant of the ‘Manichaean heresy into the historical development of Russian culture, linking this religious tradition to the rise of Bolshevism. The…
Propaganda on the Margins: Bruno Schulz's Soviet Illustrations, 1940–41
In 2016, Ukrainian historians uncovered a previously unknown set of propaganda illustrations produced by the Polish-Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) for the Soviet newspaper, Bil'shovits'ka Pravda (Bolshevik Truth) in 1940–41 during the occupation of eastern Poland. This article presents the first comprehensive interpretations of the newly discovered materials in their social, political and historical contexts. The article uses a…
Counter-Elite Populism and Civil Society in Poland: PiS’s Strategies of Elite Replacement
This article shows how Poland’s ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), is attempting to apply its general strategy of “elite replacement” in a modified way to civil society. Since independent civil society organizations are not subject to arbitrary state control of appointments (unlike public institutions), this strategy has required a more complex dual approach of pressure and promotion. Organizations perceived as hostile to the party and its valu…
Whose Poland is it to be? PiS and the struggle between monism and pluralism
Since 2015, the Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) governments in Poland have engineered a revolt against the post-1989 ‘liberal consensus' and a shift towards a regime rooted in executive aggrandisement, populism and nativism. In this article, we contextualise this shift in terms of a persistent ‘metapolitical’ dispute over the legitimacy of political actors and the contestability of certain areas of policy. PiS claims to be reintrodu…
The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature
The aim of this article is to analyze Wisława Szymborska's poem Writing a Résumé, written in the late 1970s, which is a reflection on a seemingly simple event of filling in an official form. By juxtaposing incongruous details and playing with antinomies and paradoxes, the Polish poetess shows the process of reducing an individual biography to impersonal official information, prompting the reader to reflect on the relationship between authenticity…
Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity
This book presents Czesław Miłosz’s poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of religious faith, transcendence, and the value of the human individual against what he viewed as dangerous modern forms of materialism. The Polish Nobel laureate saw the reductive “biologization” of human life as a root cause of the historical tragedies he had witnessed under Nazi German and Soviet regimes in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. Th…
Conclusion: Belief in the Body
This Conclusion summarizes the book’s interpretation of Czesław Miłosz’s work as a paradoxically materialist response to what he sees as the violent historical consequences of reductive forms of materialism. The emphasis is placed on deeper exploration of the body as Miłosz’s answer to the dehumanization and secularization that supposedly threaten the human individual in modern times, and on the potential for “transcendence” through material or s…
Beyond the Body: Reinventing Transcendence
Chapter 1 examines Miłosz’s poetic attempts to salvage a non-bodily, “transcendent” dimension of human identity from reductively materialist perspectives. It begins with a brief introduction of his understanding of the “death of God” in Western culture, before presenting a sustained interpretation of a poem exemplifying his own resistance—an uncertain defense of transcendent human “meaning,” partly represented by poetry itself. This discussion of…
Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature
Polish Studies and the “Decolonization” Paradigm after Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Serdecznie witamy na eJournals. Portalu Czasopism Naukowych! eJournals to nie tylko platforma do publikowana online, ale również doświadczony zespół Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oferujący wsparcie dla Redakcji czasopism w zakresie prowadzenia i rozwoju Czasopisma. Misją eJournals jest wspieranie polskich naukowców oraz zapewnienie przedstawicielom redakcji Czasopism profesjonalnej pomocy w ciągłym podnoszeniu ich poziomu i utrzymaniu …
Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland
This article examines the challenges facing governments aiming to restore liberal democratic institutions after illiberal rule. It uses the case study of Poland under Donald Tusk’s current government—which defeated populist Law and Justice (PiS) in 2023—to construct a wider conceptual framework for understanding dilemmas of post-illiberal reform that may also confront other democracies. A key legacy of democratic backsliding is a series of instit…
The Surplus of Meaning
Adam Mickiewicz's long poem Pan Tadeusz (1834) has often enjoyed an almost sacrosanct status in Polish culture, as the national epic and pinnacle of poetic expression in the language. This elevated position is not reflected in its standing outside the country. In his own time, Mickiewicz was a minor celebrity in exile, especially in France and Russia. But he has not entered the European canon in an enduring way as a national champion on the level…
Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Central European Literary Studies (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Poetry (5 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)