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Keywords: BiH; prescription; misunderstanding; Paddy Ashdown; Wolfgang Petritsch; entities; high representative; EU membership; NATO; Dayton accords; constitution; revision; political elites;
Bosnia Daily: June 16, 2016 – Why My Prescriptions on BiH Are Frequently Misunderstood
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Keywords: religious phenomenon; secularization; globalization; pluralism; atheism
Social influence of the religious phenomenon, is a complex phenomenon, especially in contemporary society, which takes account of certain indicators such as: context of religious freedom, religious language or religious speech, religious affiliation, religious practice; attitudes of religious groups or religious institutions on society and on social security; the impact of specific religious groups, secret societies, mysteries on the population firms. In order to be objective and to have the right attitude towards certain aspects that define contemporary society issues on the globalization, integration, secularism, atheism indifference, pluralism, it is first necessary that these issues be carefully studied, known and understood in the context of contemporary society. The phenomenon of secularization, globalization, religious indifference, not social issues but social phenomena, specific ways of expression of contemporary society.
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Keywords: Religion; Postcolonial; Materialism; Merchandise; Politics
The role of religion and culture in socio-economic development can not be underestimated. Coupled with socio-economic advancement, the postcolonial and contemporary African society is characterised by unprecedented rise in the level of religious movements with diverse contradicting beliefs championed by so called spiritual and religious leaders. The overwhelming socio-economic downturn in the society has meant that people have turned to religion for solutions to their problem but the church has not really lived up to expectation which writer likeSoyinka portrayed in his text. Considering the above mentioned, this study textually analysed Wole Soyinka’s The Trials of Brother Jero from a postcolonial theoretical perspective with the aims of exploring religious dynamics vis-à-vis cultural /moral degradation as portrayed in the text. It further resonates the place of culture in the contemporary religious environment. Moral degradation is captured from the characters of brother Jero, the old prophet, Jeroboam and the drummer boy where lack of respect for elders, covetous exploitation by spiritual leaders, materialism, falsehood and deceit are exemplified in religious setting as depicted in the text.
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Keywords: video game;video game studies;game studies;utopianism;utopian studies;neoliberalism;economy;
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Keywords: Bulgaria; FPRY/Yugoslavia; caricature; Josip Broz Tito; the Tito-Stalin conflict; propaganda; art; press;
The article deals with a relatively marginal topic which is part of a much larger framework that shapes the Tito-Stalin conflict after the Cominform resolution against Yugoslavia - namely the cartoon propaganda which took place in Bulgaria. The accent is put on the cartoons dedicated to the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito in particular and Yugoslavia in general. This problem is discussed on the background of the dynamical and controversial Bulgarian-Yugoslav and Bulgarian-Serbian relations. The author tries to examine whether Bulgarian cartoons after 1948 used the older Bulgarian stereotypes regarding Serbs and Yugoslavs and whether there were new messages which under the influence of communist ideology departed from traditional images attached to the Bulgaria’s western neighbors.
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Keywords: Rural people; 18th-19th century; Moravian countryside; Villager's reading;
The reflection of time and the acceptance of and preference for what is time-tested, well-established, and still valid from the perspective of rural people are demonstrated by what they read. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the literature that was read often concentrated on old texts, repeatedly read over generations. Such reading habits slowly began to disappear from the countryside only in the second half of the 19th century.
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Keywords: Peddlery; cultural integrity; rural and urban environment; 18th-19th century;
The principles of cultural integrity can be recognized in the operation of some specific professions as well. During the 18th century, there was a gradual increase in the volume of clerical work dealing with peddlery, especially peddling trade, in Central Europe. The state administration and the bureaucratic apparatus of lower degrees simply responded to the fact that villages and towns were visited nearly daily by peddlers offering goods or services.
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Keywords: women’s studies; feminism; female; European; Asian; African
The book shows the the picture of feminity in European and world culture, which emerges from the texts concerning the beginnings of women’s movement as well as in the recent publications, describing existential experience of women in local and global dimension. The publication explores the problems of distant cultures and close nations of our continent, especially Central Europe. The provided perspectives show a visible symmetry of fates of women living in Western, Middle East, African and Asian cultures.
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Keywords: French-Canadian literature; Quebec; freemasonry; enlightenment
What can be said about the links between the first Quebec writers of the 18th-19th centuries and the secret or discreet societies of freemasonry, devoted to philosophical reflection or philanthropic action? As early as the end of the 18th century,the Catholic Church in Lower Canada perceived a danger to good Canadian souls in the Enlightenment and rationalism. We examine here how the Philosophical Enlightenment and the Masonic Enlightenment nourished the first generations of French-Canadian people of letters in the years 1760-1780, then in Lower Canada (1791-1841) and up to Confederation.
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Keywords: colonial Atlantis; Lemuria (Limuria); Petrusmok. Mythe; Malcolm de Chazal; myths about the origins of nations; continental drift; Jules Hermann
Révélations du Grand Océan [Revelations of the Great Ocean] by Jules Hermann (1846-1924), published posthumously in 1927 and nourishing imagination of some Mauritian writers, were inspired by the scientific theory of continental drift proposed by Alfred Wegener. Hermann imagined an Atlantis of the South, Lemuria, situated between India and Africa and submerged in the wake of a continental cataclysm. He found remnants of this drowned continent, or more precisely he found its linguistic remains, in Malagasy language, which he saw as an avatar of the Lemurian language, and its physical remains in the island of Madagascar, together with the Mascarene islands. After Robert Edward Hart (1891-1954) and his "Cycle de Pierre Flandres" (1928-1936), it was Malcolm de Chazal, a primitivist painter and (surrealist?) poet, or “total artist” (Robert Furlong), who took his inspiration from the “Lemurian myth”. Chazal’s monographer Christophe Chabbert has shown how, for Chazal, and especially in "Petrusmok. Mythe" (1951), the myth becomes inspiration to construct a cosmogony of the islands of the Indian Ocean and to show – artistically and spiritually – their autonomy.
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Keywords: Charles Dickens; marriage plot; happy ending; expectations
Charles Dickens’s "Dombey and Son" (1846-8) represents a key reference point for Victorian gender studies, with critics focusing on the contrast between the ‘gender offender’ Edith and what Juliet John terms normative passivity on the part of the heroine Florence. This article addresses the question of whether marriage was really a happy ending for the women in Dickens’s novels, demonstrating that despite numerous weddings and marriages, "Dombey and Son" by no means presents matrimony as a solid foundation for happy unions and success in personal relations. Along with a vivisection of the marriage plot, there is speculation on what readers are expecting from the ending of a Dickens novel and concludes that weddings in "Dombey and Son" are not even “incisive beginnings”. As exemplified by the unions of Bunsby with Mrs. MacStinger, Florence with Walter, Cornelia Blimber with Mr. Feeder, B.A., and Susan Nipper with Toots, marriage is presented as a rather dusty tradition, and often a farce, not introducing the desired or expected change for the protagonists.
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Keywords: Philosophy; Modernity; Religion; Dissimulation; Rhetoric; Irony;
While the notion of irony is well suited to certain literary genres, often referred to as minors, it seems less obvious in philosophical discourse and especially when it comes to dealing with such important subjects as theology or the central issues of religion as the immortality of the soul, miracles or the greatness of God. However, in the 17th century, when the Inquisition and the imprimatur were still powerful institutions, surprisingly, there were many examples of the use of irony, particularly in speeches dealing with religious issues. More than political issues, however, it is probably the most monitored theme and should be used to increase respect. How is it that philosophers dare to use irony to deal with these subjects? How do they use irony? And above all, why do philosophers use irony to address certain themes? It is to these questions that I will propose to answer with an approach combining philosophy and rhetorical analysis of the texts. To do this, I will have to place the humorous excerpts in the dynamics of the works and in the historical context.
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Keywords: artistic; creativity; psychology
Art is born at the border of external and intrapsychic realities, through the human being’s necessity of including pragmatic elements of his environment into his own affective system. Creativity stands between objective and subjective worlds as a symbolic metamorphosis of the material into the immaterial of the imagination, conscience and emotions of the artist. The product of creativity will be a complex interpretation of environmental elements meant for reinterpretations by other personalities, with their own individual and specific set of imagination tools. But what if, the inspiration for the artistic work is not a reflection of reality but o product of patho-psychological disruptions or, what if the inspiration resides in the altered emotional and neurological perception of reality? The artistic creativity within psychopathological activity in certain psychiatric disorders have been raising interest for both medical and non-medical world but the most intriguing aspect, is maybe, the colorful and complexity of emotions and sensations that are perceived by non-psychiatric persons when viewing such works. Maybe this could represent an argument for the subjective and relativeness of the human psychology, beyond social and cultural standard values.
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Keywords: copyright; constitutional protection of copyright; case law of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic; concept of constitutional protection of copyright in the Czech Republic;
This paper focuses on the analysis of the application of the principles and provisions of constitutional law to the area of copyright in selected case law of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic and confirms their general importance, which manifested itself in the problems of legislation and case law during the Covid-19 pandemic. The starting point is to identify the principles and individual provisions of the constitutional law of the Czech Republic applicable to the protection of intangible objects of copyright, in particular the provisions of Art. 34, (1) Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of the Czech Republic on the protection of the results of creative intellectual activity. The aim is to find out how the Constitutional Court resolves conflicts between individual constitutional rights when they are infringed. Further goal is to consider the concept of constitutional protection of this field in the Czech Republic to compare with the concept of constitutional EU law and with international law. This will be done using the method of analysis and legal comparison.
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Keywords: silent movie; ekphrastic poetry;
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Keywords: Cubism; art forms; history of art; caricatures;
Žánr karikatur, které přemalovávaly a opravovaly obrazy viděné na oficiálním Salonu, přetrvával oslabeně do období let rané avantgardy počátku 20. století. S multiplikací konkurenčních salonů – zejména Salonu nezávislých a Podzimního salonu – tento žánr ztrácívitalitu a rozřeďuje se v napodobeninách anonymních děl, dale se však objevují různé scény znázorňující umělce v ateliéru nebo ohromené návštěvníky před obrazy vystavenými na Salonu. Stopy této tradice pokračují v humoristickém tisku, jako byl ve Francii Le Journal amusant, Le Rire či La vie parisienne. V Čechách se karikatury kubismu objevovaly v populárních ilustrovaných časopisech jako Humoristické listy, Švanda dudák nebo ve specializovaném časopise Skupiny výtvarných umělců Umělecký měsíčník, kam přispíval svými karikaturami Zdeněk Kratochvíl.
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Keywords: China; travel writing; imagology; history; postcolonial
The paper discusses Colin Thubron’s book Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China – one of the most popular twentiethcentury travelogues about this country. It explores the various ways in which the author constructs the image of the Chinese people, especially when these images are related to China’s recent history. More specifically, I focus on a discursive phenomenon – an imagined “return of history” – which the reader can witness throughout the book. The author constantly travels around the country, expecting to somehow see the history he has heard so much about at home. He expects something from China and is prepared to see this ‘something’ even in the face of the evidence. At the same time he feels he has every right to pass judgments on what he perceives as history, while denying the Chinese he meets the right to comment on British history.The paper discusses Colin Thubron’s book Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China – one of the most popular twentiethcentury travelogues about this country. It explores the various ways in which the author constructs the image of the Chinese people, especially when these images are related to China’s recent history. More specifically, I focus on a discursive phenomenon – an imagined “return of history” – which the reader can witness throughout the book. The author constantly travels around the country, expecting to somehow see the history he has heard so much about at home. He expects something from China and is prepared to see this ‘something’ even in the face of the evidence. At the same time he feels he has every right to pass judgments on what he perceives as history, while denying the Chinese he meets the right to comment on British history.
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