Description Published just before the outbreak of the Second World War that spelled the tragic death of its author, Yesterday and Tomorrow is one of the forgotten gems of twentieth-century Polish thought. Now recognized as the foremost Polish nationalist treatise of the 1930s, Jan Mosdorf’s Yesterday and Tomorrow presents a vivid picture of the interwar drive to reread the past, reshape the present, and reimagine the future. Part study and part manifesto, this immense tour de force, authored by one of the leaders of the new generation of Polish nationalist youth following Poland’s regaining of independence, takes the reader on an ambitious trek to understand the character and fate of the Polish nation in the broader context of the crisis of European civilization and the challenges of technological modernity. Artfully integrating history and psychology, socio-economics and philosophy, politics and theology, Yesterday and Tomorrow remains an enduringly relevant exposition of the drama of nations in the modern world and the bold thinking that seeks to rekindle the European spirit and civilizational creativity through national renaissance.
