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This book looks at Poland at the time of the war in Ukraine with an emphasis on the pertinent political philosophical reflection of its public scholars regarding the problem of the country's moral rearmament--a major axiological challenge for the West and its member states in dangerous times. After initially looking at the sociopolitical context of the question in Poland, that is, the country's response to the early phase of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as presenting the aggressive Russian empire together with the European Union as a normative empire, the main question is examined in the context of the Polish national community. Thus Poland is studied from several aspects of cultural and political philosophy, augmented by political theology, which provide potentially relevant resources to confront the challenge. From this perspective reflection on existing historical memory in Poland is presented that explains the survival of a tragic sensibility and can act as a counter to the historical amnesia that has been determined as a deterrent of the axiological task of moral rearmament, and plays an important part in a deeper reflection of the present dangerous times.

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"""Christopher Garbowski's elegant book is an intelligent and bracing examination of the challenge posed to Ukraine, Poland, and the West by the war unleashed by Russia, and its broader historical implications. It gives a thoughtful analysis of the recovery of resources--political, military, patriotic, and spiritual--needed for the rescue of civilization from the resurgence of barbarism."" --Neal Pease, professor emeritus of history, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ""As Christopher Garbowski argues in his excellent book, dealing with the threat coming from an aggressive empire is not just a matter of military and economic strength. It is, above all, the spiritual power of a society, which depends mainly on historical experience and the ability to draw on cultural resources. This explains Poland's stance and determines Poland's extraordinary role in the face of not only the Russian invasion of Ukraine but also the moral disarmament of the West."" --Zbigniew Stawrowski, professor of political science, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw"

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Christopher Garbowski is a professor emeritus at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He has been primarily interested in values and religion in literature and popular culture and is the author and co-editor of a number of books. He is also on the editorial board of Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe and was formerly a book review editor at The Polish Review.

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