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Keywords: myth; rite; symbol; mioritic topofany; dogma-myth;
Mioriţa is one of the fundamental myths of the Romanian people - the myth of pastoral existence - in relation to literary and ethnogenetic aspects, polyvalent in mythical function, ritualistic and symbolic; furthermore, it rises to a mito-dogmatic consciousness able to establish and structure an ethos. Carol-rite-myth, Mioriţa is a dogmamyth par excellence - which contains paradigmatic valences under an ancient antropocosmologic ante-Romanian aspect - formulated in terms of an archaic-liturgical poem. The poem - according to actual reminiscences - descended from a rite of initiation or rite of passage (transition) of the soul interpreted as a carol, and in secular form as a pastoral ballad. Mioriţa - followed closely by Legends of God’s Mother - is the quintessential of Romanian Cosmic Christianity, but it is also function of the ciclico-anamnesis embodiment of the sacred-hypostatic which arises into mioritic topofany.
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Keywords: Constructivism;pragmatism; phenomenology; Lucian Blaga; K.E.Løgstrup;
Constructivism and pragmatism are the most popular responses to postmodernism as we are approaching the limits of our reflective capacities. Consequently, in science practice, not theory is now the primary concern. The Romanian philosopher Lucian Blaga has anticipated this development in his epistemological writings, where he combines pragmatism with constructivism. However, I shall argue that he misses some important points by delimiting himself from phenomenology. I shall argue, that phenomenology has an important contribution to make to our modern “Zeitgeist” and can be a supplement to the pragmatic and constructivist mind.
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Keywords: Ancient Greek culture; nude; gymnasium; sign, canon; harmony; corporeality; identity; gymnosophy;
The presentation and representation of the nude human body was one of the central interests in the culture of ancient Greece. The whole miracle of the ancient Greek revolves around the hero or the athlete, with insistence on the physical representation of his body, stripped of all its clothes and preconceptions. In gymnasiums, as well as in the myths of Olympus, the nude was held as a supreme ethical and aesthetical criterion. This gymnosophic way of life redefined normality in the ancient Greek society and was the basis of an important manner of understanding identity as one deriving from corporeality.
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Keywords: Simulacra; Sign; Animation; Graphic; the Fiction of political; Representation; the Un-Representable; Antropomorphic Register; Cat/Cats;
Placed under the sign of Nemoian import of a second language effective in taming interlocking modules, the present intervention aims to connect (the) multiphase dimensions of open routes such as simulacra - sign - animation - graphic . These levels acquire the status of permanent schemes applicable to a feline register and therefore this intervention aims to open a pupil slit toward the view simulacra / sign (Zoltán Sebôk, Jean Baudrillard’s Cats – Roman Jakobson, Claude Lévi Strauss, «Les Chats» de Charles Baudelaire), and the relation animation / graphic which are slightly ideologizing (Le chat du rabbin, Antoine Delesvaux , Joann Sfar , 2011 - Maus. A Surviver’ s Tale, Art Spiegelman, 2012). Actually applying a targeted approach of dual readings – the first, vertical and triggering such a motion in the juxtaposition of details, reporting the significance of the semantics reference and a second, consisting in a horizontal extraction of the signifier by reporting elements to one another within the semiotic system of synthetic and retrospective order.
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Keywords: pornography; eroticism; sexuality; postmodernism; simulacrum; simulation;kitsch;
The material deconstruction of the sexual body (Eizo case) is designed to dissolve the border between natural and technological, the same way postmodernism has overthrown the soul-body paradigm. From here, pornography penetrates our intimate space in the shape of gadgets and kitsch. The result is the occurrence of simulated unprofessional pornography – amateur pornography. Sexuality’s surrender before a derisory fragmentation of the bodies is made concurrent with a reassertion of the erotic reference system. The latter suffers a conceptual transformation through what pornography administrates under the auspices of the new transgressive methods offered by the principles of consumption. And the important thing in this new paradigm is not the process of consumption and objectification of the sexual body, by the elimination of the human’s natural state, implying an instinctual sexuality, concealed by the libido code and the instatement of an artificial state, constructed on the mechanical fragmentation of the sexual ritual.
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Keywords: consequence; consistency; solidarity; ascent; security; jurnalim;
The historian Prof. Carol Göllner PhD. (1911-1995) was a very successful scientist born in Medias. As a student he won the favor and recognition of the Romanian Prime Minister of the time, Nicolae Iorga, who supported him to continue his studies in Paris. On his return to Romania in 1945, Göllner got caught in the clutches of the Secret Service and one year later, in 1946 he had to defend himself before the military court, being charged of supposed high treason. Due to the intervention of a group of historians from Cluj (for example. Prof. Constantin Daicoviciu) he was acquitted from the charge and started working as the director of the periodical “Forschungen zur Volks-und Landeskunde”. Here he developed for many years a rich publishing activity and became a member of the most outstanding scientific institutions and panels in Communist Romania. In 1981 Göllner retired and in 1990 he migrated to Germany. The author aims at presenting objectively the manifold interrelation between Dr. Carol Göllner and the Romanian “Securitate” Service.
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Keywords: knowledge;The Great Anonymous; censorship;
The Romanian thinker, Lucian Blaga, makes a distinction between two types of knowledge. The first type represents the empirical knowledge while the second form corresponds to the theoretical or hypothetical knowledge. Although the last one is uncertain and problematical, it wakes up the reaction of the Great Anonymous, (a totalitarian authority), which tries to stop it using the instrument of censorship. This study analyses various forms of censorship during history till to Romania of our days.
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