The author presents a psychobiography of Isaac Newton, which has already been published in Polish translation. In his view the book may be considered as an instructive exemplar of psychohistorical (or psychobiographical) approach which is rather unknown in Poland. That is why some basic theoretical assumptions of psychobiography, together with various elements of psychohistorical research strategy and "applied methodology", as revealed by Frank Manuel's study, are discussed there. In this way the author strives to demonstrate that psychohistorical writings really broaden conceptual background of historical studies and provide historians with new sources and new questions to the past.

The discussed book takes microhistorical writings as a starting point for the author's considerations on ethical and epistemological problems of history. Ewa Domańska asks a vital question: what kind of historical knowledge and historical discourse do we need nowadays, entering the New Age? In this way the author is trying to move current metahistorical debate beyond the limits (in her opinion a bit outdated) of postmodern discourse. In her strivings to find the answer, the author discusses the latest trends in contemporary historiography (e.g. the impact of cultural anthropology, semiotics and postmodernism in general on historians). The author also looks at philosophical and methodological grounds for the creation of a new epistemological relation between a historian and his/her subjects (people from the past) which might be based on the idea of a dialogue and an encounter of equivalent partners.

The Author discussed in his article the problem of ethic foundations of promoters of psychohistory. He, argues that psychotherapeutic inclinations of scholars resulted in the alienation of this approach within historical sciences, what - in the end - did not prevent psychohistorians from becoming active outside the closed circle of the discipline.

The Author discussed in his article the problem of ethic foundations of promoters of psychohistory. He argues that psychotherapeutic inclinations of scholars resulted in the alienation of this approach within historical sciences, what — in the end — did not prevent psychohistorians from becoming active outside the closed circle of the discipline.

The authors discuss possibilities and limits for applying a research model of the study of memory politics, originally developed by them with the aim to research the Polish case only, to other countries of East Central Europe which after the WW II formed the sphere of the Soviet domination. They pose a question whether it should be appropriate to combine it with the so called transnational approach.