SLAVS OR EUROPEANS? A FEW COMMENTS ABOUT THE NAMES GIVEN NOWADAYS IN POLAND

Abstract

A main theme of the article is the answer of the questions: Is it possible nowadays to talk about Central European identity? and: Where is the place for Poles? Are we a part of a cultural (and naming) community or do we feel and manifest that we are different from other nationalities? An object of the article is also the names and naming trends (fashionable names, rare names, tendencies) in the perspective of phenomenology of foreign (B. Waldenfels)