Jeszcze jeden klerk. Jerzy Kowalski wobec myśli Karola Irzykowskiego

The author compares Karol Irzykowski’s thoughts on the role of clerks with the project of Radical Intellectualism by Jerzy Kowalski, showing the similarities and differences. Kowalski was a scholar and artist-writer. He assigned intellectuals the most important role in controlling and shaping political power, namely establishing good governance. An intellectual was supposed to be a non-partisan specialist, gaining people’s trust thanks to knowledge and searching for non-ideological, good solutions. Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi’s theory of hyperethics, quoted in the article, explains the contradictions of Irzykowski’s unique attitude towards clerks.