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Arvo Krikmann
Arvo Krikmann (July 21, 1939 – February 27, 2017) Eulogy from colleagues.
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Arvo Krikmann
Arvo Krikmann (July 21, 1939 – February 27, 2017) Eulogy from colleagues.
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Hilja Kokamägi (September 10, 1923 – March 9, 2017) Eulogy from colleagues.
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The aim of the article is to discuss the main features of philosophical and public considerations of Leonidas Donskis (1962–2016) in the horizon of his intellectual biography. The article overcomes the limitations and transcends the borders of the traditional in memoriam genre and seeks not only to present the significant ideas of Donskis but to discuss them in the broader context of contemporary philosophy, sociology, and Critical theory. The main philosophical propositions of Donskis are interpreted by the logic of development. The article emphasizes these features and ideas that are prominent in Donskis’ thinking: a) the idea of European picture is opposed to Heidegger’s critique of “The Age of World Picture”; b) the analysis of the figure of genius developed by Donskis is contrasted to Nietzsche’s theory of Übermensch; c) the original and innovative synthesis of the ideas of O. Spengler and V. Kavolis on the configurations and trajectories of moral imagination; d) “true-believers” were considered in the context of Ch. Miłosz’s “ketman”, as an example of multifaced traitor and conformist-liar; e) the figure of public intellectual was understood by Donskis as opposed to both the Russian and Soviet intelligent and N. Berdyaev’s critic of intelligentsia; f) the idea of literary-political interpretations was based on contemporary interpretations of the works of N. Machiavelli, Miguel de Cervantes, W. Shakespeare, G. Orwell, E. Zamiatin, G. Grass, M. Kundera, and T. Venclova. Donskis was especially involved in dystopian studies and their application to contemporary issues. He criticized the ideological doctrinaires, “true believers”, foundationalism (as well as nationalism and totalitarianism related to it), and supported dissent movements. Public activism, the presentations of grand pictures of Europe, and elitism make him a Promethean figure in Lithuanian culture and philosophy. His considerations were based on the methodology of the history of ideas and the analysis of the genealogy of moral and aesthetic imaginations. V. Kavolis, A. Štromas and Z. Bauman were the main inspirations of his ideas. He takes the idea of moral imagination and the concepts of trajectories and configurations of ideas from the books of V. Kavolis and applies them to the philosophy and ethics; he takes the method of application of literary studies to political studies from A. Štromas and applies it to contemporary society and dystopias. He also develops the idea of liquidity taken from Z. Bauman and applies it to the studies of national and cultural identities and contemporary cultural traits.
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Doktor Monika Sławek (z domu Lefik) urodziła się 21 czerwca 1965 roku w Łodzi. W latach 1980– 1984 była uczennicą klasy humanistycznej IX Liceum Ogólnokształcącego im. Jarosława Dąbrowskiego w Łodzi. Po maturze podjęła studia na specjalizacji „turystyka i rekreacja ruchowa” w Akademii Wychowania Fizycznego w Warszawie (Zespół Zakładu Dydaktyki Naukowej w Łodzi), które ukończyła 29 czerwca 1988 roku broniąc pracę magisterską na temat Rekreacja fizyczna jako forma zagospodarowania czasu wolnego młodzieży pracującej (promotor: doc. dr hab. Józef Penc). Rok póź- niej rozpoczęła pracę na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim. Naukę w Podyplomowym Studium Pedagogizacji realizowała od 1988 do 1991 roku. W latach 1991–2007 pracowała jako asystent, a następnie adiunkt na Wydziale Nauk o Wychowaniu Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego w Katedrze Wychowania Fizycznego i Zdrowotnego. W roku 1995 (16–28 maja) odbyła staż naukowy na Uniwersytecie Sunderland w Wielkiej Brytanii. Stopień doktora, na podstawie dysertacji Postawy wobec zdrowia i kultury fizycznej studentów kierunku pedagogicznego a ich przyszły zawód (promotor: prof. dr hab. Zofia Żukowska), uzyskała 17 września 1998 roku.
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Samo malo više od mjesec dana prije svog 80. jubileja, 1. aprila 2017. godine, preminuo je profesor emeritus dr. dres. h. c. Bernhard Hänsel, eminentni europski znanstveni autoritet na području prapovijesne arheologije, redovni član Centra za balkanološka ispitivanja pri Akademiji nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine, vanjski član Poljske akademije znanosti, član Saske akademije znanosti itd.
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Ove je godine umrla Divna Zečević, naša suradnica i kolegica, koja je cijeli svoj tridesetogodišnji radni vijek provela u Institutu za etnologiju i folkloristiku. Stoički je prkosila dugoj i strašnoj bolesti, ostavši svojim znanstvenim i književnim radom do kraja vezana uz Institut. Nemoguće je pravedno sažeti plodan kreativni život Divne Zečević.
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In memoriam: -Besede ob grobu dr. Franceta Škerla (r. 14. 3. 1909, u. 20. 10.1985) -Francetu Klopčiču v spomin (r. 25. 10.1903, u. 28. 4.1986)
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The article presents memories of long-standing cooperation between the author and Professor Maria Dudzikowa, especially within the organisation and management of the Summer School of Young Pedagogues. The key moments of Professor Dudzikowa’s development and achievement are also shown.
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The paper honors Heda Festini; it’s first part contains author’s personal memories of Heda. The central part of the paper addresses a favorite author of Heda Festini, Franjo Petrić, and his Utopia The Happy City-State. It then places the utopian construction on the map of contemporary understanding of political theorizing. Utopias, like the one due to Petrić, result from thought-experimenting; in contrast to purely epistemic thought-experiments they are geared to “guidance”, as Petrić puts it, namely advice giving and persuading. Political thought-experimenting can be understood to a large extent as work in ideal theorizing; a matter little noticed in the literature. Classical cases cover “ideal theory” in the sense of given, non-temporal arrangement; “ideal” either in a very limited sense of strict compliance (Rawls), or in a wider sense of normatively marked properties, not instantiated in actual political reality. Platonic tradition belongs to a third genus, “ideal” in the sense of recommended end-state; Utopias add to this theoretical quality the dimension of “guidance”, so that they are motivational, time-related ideal theories. The paper depicts these relations between thought-experimenting as a wider genus, and ideal theorizing as its prominent political-philosophical sub-species. The paper is thus a tribute to Heda Festini who helped me find my way to analytic theorizing, and help analytic philosophy to start serious institutional life in our native Croatia.
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The author describes a tragic and forgotten character from our area. The paper shows why and how he was forgotten. Sadly, this is one of the many cases of Bosniak self-forgetfulness. This paper is one way by which we should counter this, and learn from the good and bad examples of our past.
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Iako mi nikad nije bila profesorica, uvijek sam je oslovljavao s profesorice. Iako me često molila da je ne persiram, cijeli sam je život persirao i nisam mogao prestati, a malo je profesora te generacije s kojima sam, poput nje, toliko surađivao, postao toliko blizak te koji su mi, k tomu još, bili tako dragi.I dok sam s ostalima jednostavno bio na “ti”, gotovo da i ne znam zašto to s njom nisam mogao, osim valjda zbog ozbiljnosti koju sam vezivao uz nju, uz njezin personality, a što sam kao barijeru, vjerojatno više vlastitu, s vremenom sporo uklanjao da bih joj,Primjerice, uopće mogao ispričati nove viceve iz “škole bosanskog humora”, što je veoma voljela i tražila od mene u nekom opuštenijem, neposlovnom sjedenju, kad bi se, uz svu njezinu službenu ozbiljnost i neupitnu erudiciju, počela “otapati”, kad bi se mogla vidjeti i njezina ljudska toplina, delikatnost i brižno njegovani šarm.
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