The doctoral thesis will analyze different concepts of the development of national culture in the thinking of Štefan Polakovič and Svätopluk Štúr within the philosophy of history. The research will focus on the characterization of a different way of reflecting the relationship between the individual and the nation within the process of national institutionalization. The project will bring closer the different philosophical sources of both thinkers and their political overlap, which participated in the formation of the monotypic and pluralistic concept of national culture.