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作者

来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY,Vol.43,Issue4,P.587-601

语言

英文

关键字

town planning; history of sociology; historical anthropology; Stanislaw Ossowski; World War II; occupation; Warsaw

作者单位

[Cain, Friedrich] Univ Konstanz, Fach 213, D-78457 Constance, Germany. Cain, F (reprint author), Univ Konstanz, Fach 213, D-78457 Constance, Germany. E-Mail: friedrich.cain@uni-konstanz.de

摘要

The article explores the sociopsychological considerations made by Polish sociologist Stanislaw Ossowski (1897-1963) during World War II in reaction to his specific experiences in Soviet-occupied Lw and German-occupied Warsaw. Based on readings of Ossowski's publications and so far unpublished archival material, the influences and practical consequences of permanently observed violations of ethical and moral boundaries in that "great sociological laboratory" of war and occupation shall be traced in the texts he wrote during that time. As a member of a group of engineers, town planners, and architects, Ossowski sketched various psycho-and sociotechnical means of controlling that should guarantee for a peaceful social existence of free individuals in a new Polish state. Particular attention will be directed to the specific difficulties of attaining, communicating, and distributing knowledge in the de facto doubled cities that developed along the lines of opposition between the occupying and the occupied.