Construction of the Polish identity
La construction de l'identité polonaise
Résumé
For Rousseau, the Polish problem is the construction of a national identity. Poland, a vast open plain threatened by powerful neighbours, cannot find any principle of resistance except in itself in the form of a Polish soul. In order to face danger, it is necessary to train the citizen by shaping all his passions and opinions in order to make him love and cultivate this identity which bears a Polish unity. A main difficulty, however, will be to generalize this identity originally rooted in a particular group: the nobility. Thus, responding to the bet of a situation of vital emergency, the Considerations represent themselves a kind of theoretical bet of Rousseau. \textcopyright 2018 Espaces Marx. All rights reserved.