Everything is copy, Nora Ephron said. For me, everything is evidence. But that in itself is less useful. It is not true that whatever life throws at me in the archives, can be turned into content. It is rather the opposite: the more there is, the more doubt and double-checking emerges. The story is not sharpening up, it is rather watered down.

The late 1940s were a complicated time in Poland, and, unsurprisingly, philosophers were affected by that as well. From 1945, with rising pressure, every academic and cultural endeavor had to conform to the socialist ideology and further its causes.