Romantyczne antynomie idei rewolucji

The French Revolution and the Partitions of Poland were two events that radically changed the geopolitical shape of Europe in the last decade of the eighteenth century. Therefore, they became the source of nineteenth-century discourses on the idea of revolution. Polish revolutionism was associated with the idea of regaining independence. Consequently, thinkers like Mickiewicz, Krasiński, Norwid most often adopted the previously binding conservative ownership and political principles. Revolutionism in Western Europe was becoming more and more radical, however it did not implement its program, but gravitated towards the Caesarian system (First and Second French Empire). Thus, the revolution in European thought of the nineteenth century was an ideological project, that on the one hand, was radical, on the other, tended to consolidate earlier models of power.