Польский национальный мир в интерпретации Г. Гачева: спорное и стереотипное

G. Gachev’s book Russia’s neighbours Poland, Lithuania, Estonia continues the author’s reflections on peculiarities of the national world of different peoples. The basic concepts in the system of G. Gachev’s national world are Cosmos, Psyche, Logos. Important coordinates – Space and Time, Gonia (created by Nature, genesis) and Urgia (created by Labour), male and female origins, vertical and horizontal, the hierarchy of four elements. The researcher reconstructs the national world of Poland substantiating on these universal categories. First of all he introduces the concepts „polskost” and „polstvo”. The first one belongs to spiritual sphere, the second is the unity of material and corporal.