FLORIAN ZNANIECKIS SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY: THERAPY FOR WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND METHOD OF FUTURE CIVILIZATION CONSTRUCTION (Floriana Znanieckiego technologia spoleczna: terapia cywilizacji zachodniej i metoda konstrukcji cywilizacji przyszlosci)

In the paper, the set of statements is presented that form a basis of Florian Znaniecki's considerations dealing with therapy of Western civilization and method of future civilization construction. Then the idea of therapy and construction of cultural reality is presented, that can be found in Znaniecki's writings. Znaniecki accounts Western civilization as a set of social problems that are to be recognized and appropriately solved for the civilization lasting in its integrity and vigour, whereas he accounts future civilization as a set of tasks, which planning and carrying out forms a complex of answers to a complex of challenges proper for contemporary social life of civilized societies in a global scale - scale of universum that should form a unity in diversity, i.e. a wholeness rejecting barbarianism (which classic example is revolution of nihilism and utopias of totalitarian system of common life) and gathering what is valuable in various civilizations that are advantageous fragments of global, interpersonal world.