This chapter of the series is examining questions related to the establishment and demolition of a comprehensive horizon. Namely, the situation when the position reached intellectually – due to various reasons – becomes temporarily or permanently untenable in practical behaviour (thus as result also intellectually untenable). The trajectory consists of a rise and a decline or retreat.

Identity – argues the author – can be seen as three layers built in each other: personal identity as peculiarity or the base, mankind as generality and mediation as a particular layer. The search for identity by József is one the one hand well known but on the other hand is – as all intellectual nuances – somewhat forgotten. Of course, the identity of the poet is in his poems – in his personality, epoch, heritage and future, as to say in his proletarian heritage.

The study sketches out the great intellectual tradition of labour history writing accompanied with well selected bibliography. He sets the milestones for historians and laymen interested in the topic with a focus beyond Europe. He presents that the old school labour history was basically Europe centred but the new labour history is especially interested in global context and understanding the world outside of Europe.