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253:; sociology and ethics of memory, with a focus on transitional justice, historical guilt, reconciliation and forgiveness in politics – these are the core themes of the book she published in 2011, titled “Wina narodów. Przebaczenie jako strategia prowadzenia polityki" (The Guilt of Nations. Forgiveness as a Political Strategy). She also devotes her research to the history of ideas of emotions. In 2019 she published a book devoted to these subjects under the title "Wynalazek nowoczesnego serca. Filozoficzne źródła współczesnego myślenia o emocjach" (The Invention of Modern Heart. Philosophical Sources of Contemporary Thinking of Emotions). In the book, she argued that the seventeenth century philosophy, especially of
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222:. She graduated in 2009 with a thesis "Declarations of Forgiveness and Repentance in Politics: Examples from the history of Poland, Germany and Ukraine, 1945-2006. Theories and Practice”. Wigura obtained her habilitation from the Faculty of Sociology, Warsaw University, in 2020 for the book
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Entrepreneur Talks, European Forum for New Ideas (EFNI) in Sopot, where she spoke about the feeling of loss, and politics of fear vs. politics of hope.
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