Political time or the past as a political issue. Memory of politics, politics of memory: the politics of the past in post-totalitarian Poland ; Mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion ; Liberating the future from the past: liberating the past from the future ; The politics of political biography: self-realization, loyalty, and political change ; Civil society as an ethical challenge ; Life as simulacrum: Stanislaw Llem's science fiction
Social time or the ontology of expectations. Ontology of expectations ; Genealogy of expectations ; The myth of the unity of the nation ; Marxism as a way of life: the failure of an impossible project ; The mythologies of solidarity
Perspectives on time: from philosophy to anthropology. The problem of time in pragmatism and phenomenology ; Time, dialogue, and society ; Time and social practices ; Politics of memory, politics of time
Epilogue: what has happened to us? The rise of post-post-communism. The emergence of post-post-communism or populist post-communism ; What is post-post-communism? ; Democracy against democracy or who has hijacked the common background? ; Possible scenarios and two conservatisms ; New tribalism, post-post-communism, and the politics of time ; Epilogue-supplement
App. Post-communism and pop music: annihilation or restoration of memory in disco-polo. Two views on disco-polo: intellectuals' "horror vacui" and the nation's hope ; "All Poles" or what is disco-polo? ; The glorious past and the Slavic soul ; In opposition to the west ; Disco-polo and the dilemmas of Polish past and present.