To the Editor:
It is very unlikely that Professor Jan P. Hudzik—a professor of philosophy at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, the author of the highly acclaimed Prawda i teoria [Truth and theory, 2011], among several other publications in the field of theoretical foundations of the humanities and, more recently, contemporary political philosophy—had ever had any of his works described as “unscientific, unscrupulous, and partisan,” until such epithets were directed at him by Professor Irena Grudzińska-Gross in her letter to The Polish Review (vol. 66, no. 4).
Her ire was provoked by Jan P. Hudzik's article “Reflections on German and Polish Historical Policies of Holocaust Memory” (TPR, vol. 65, no. 4) and, more exactly, by the author's somewhat critical comments in the last section of the article, “Historian in the Public Sphere—a Case of the Paris Conference.” (The February 2019 conference in question was titled “The New...