Retoryka polityczna a rozumienie i uzasadnianie rzeczywistości demokratycznego kapitalizmu w wybranych polskich exposé III Rzeczpospolitej

The main aim of this paper is to reconstruct the most important rhetorical elements of selected Polish exposé in the transition period. The author assumes that rhetoric is a tool to exposé the symbolic legitimacy of a particular rationality of governance. Exposé is an ideological answer to the question: “how to live” and “what is society”. The answers to these questions, given in terms of democratic capitalism, is, according to the author, associated with the need to naturalize such a world view in which the individual must individually seek the basic promise of politicians – safety. Article provides an overview of “images” of the society and the political authority tasks that we can find in the exposé four Polish prime ministers during the Third Republic of Poland.