Małopolskie monografie modernistów Poststrukturalizm w świetle darwinizmu

The author combines polemics and analysis in order to defend the tradition of thorough philological commentary and a philological monograph. As a representation of a phenomenon the author presents four volumes written by Jagiellonian University professors and published by the Universitas Publishing House between 2007 and 2009. The author claims that scholars are meant to be able to adapt to every environmental circumstances in which they happened to struggle for their role and status. They have mastered the rituals of mimicry and metamorphosis. The struggle to survive in the field of humanities boils down to the well known watchword: Publish or perish! The guarantor of the quality of publications are publishing houses, which, on the one hand, force the in-house reviewers to write paeans (in order to get grants and subsidies), and on the other hand – treat every book as a perishable good and discount it ruthlessly the next year.