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Thirty years ago hope was crushed in Prague. Although their efforts were marred by suspicions of civil society and the legitimacy of non-communist alternatives to political and economic development, the Prague reformers, oblivious to the major geo-strategic arrangements of the ideological age, searched for socialism with a human face. Alexander Dubček and his comrades were hostages to the myth of the predestined role of the party, and their concessions to pluralism by today's criteria were much too modest. Even the archive documents glaringly confirm how limited and self-restrained these reforms were; nevertheless they were enough to make Wladyslaw Gomulka and Walter Ulbricht nervous and push the Soviet leaders into action. [...]
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“Is logic a physical variable?” This thought-provoking question was put forward by Michael Heller during the public lecture “Category Theory and Mathematical Structures of the Universe” delivered on 30th March 2017 at the National Quantum Information Center in Sopot. It touches upon the intimate relationship between the foundations of physics, mathematics and philosophy. To address this question one needs a conceptual framework, which is on the one hand rigorous and, on the other hand capacious enough to grasp the diversity of modern theoretical physics. Category theory is here a natural choice. It is not only an independent, well-developed and very advanced mathematical theory, but also a holistic, process-oriented way of thinking.
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In the Fall of 1989, the Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council co-sponsored two conferences (held at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles) on "Property Rights in Eastern Europe." These meetings brought together social scientists studying Eastern Europe and theorists of property rights (Harold Demsetz, John Roemer, and others). That mixture sparked some very lively debates. But the greatest sparks flew not across the ideological cleavages that one might have thought would have divided the economists among themselves but between them and the specialists familiar with the region. [...]
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Rawls or Nozick? Hayek or Friedman? Thatcher or Palme? Liberalization or democratization? Free market or social market economy? Finlandization or "Deutschlandization"?-such questions as these may be misleading in a refined scholarly analysis of liberal thought. Nevertheless, they can provoke stimulating discussions at a conference about the prospects for liberalism in Eastern Europe held some months after the fall of the Wall. [...]
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Those who are not new to science know well how difficult it is not to identify one¬self with the object of one’s investigations and research. Especially when one needs to withdraw and to close oneself off by the partition of method and to look at people, objects and phenomena themselves, at everything that’s going on here and now, and to see these processes not through the eyes of a participant but through the eyes of an observer, and when one must recognize, describe, and explain things that are still hard to grasp. And the faster one must do this, the harder and at the same time the more important it is after we have reflected on the issue to steer it in another direction. That’s hard to do but worth a try because that’s the only way of getting down from the ivory tower we’re often accused of inhabiting and of becoming needed by others while (slipping for a while into bureaucratic jargon) responding to the challenges of our times and our society when that’s needed the most.
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U Časopisu za suvremenu povijest broj 3 za 2020. godinu objavljen je tekst Davora Marijana pod naslovom „Politika povijesti ili politika laži – povodom jednoga prikaza u Preporodovu Journalu”, kao reagiranje / pismo uredniku na moj prikaz njegove knjige Rat Hrvata i Muslimana u Bosni i Hercegovini od 1992. do 1994. godine, štampan pod naslovom „Podrigivanje sukoba” u časopisu Preporodov Journal. U prikazu Marijanove knjige nastojao sam skrenutipažnju na nekoliko karakterističnih spornih mjesta u njegovoj interpretaciji političkih i vojnih odnosa i događaja u Bosni i Hercegovini, uključujući i oružani sukob.
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This volume is dedicated to Georg Lukács’ concept of form. The concept itself is understood in the broadest sense as the result of drawing boundaries, which open a framework for communication and social mediation. Form, as Judith Butler aptly remarked with regard to the scope of the term in the work of the early Lukács, is nothing that is added to the expression, but rather it becomes a condition, a sign and the possibility of its subjective and objective truth (Butler 2011). Even more: As Form, according to Lukács, can never be understood outside of its own genesis, the concept becomes the presupposition of a practice of literary and cultural studies which sees itself as the critical reading of the genealogy of forms (Menke 2018). To such a reading, the volume shows, Lukács not only subjected the forms of literature, life and the social, but did so with a degree of lucidity unmatched in literary and cultural studies to this day. If the possibilities of the form-genealogical approach remained largely unfollowed, it was because the problem of form highlighted by Lukács was overshadowed by the dogmatism with which he later tried to solve it.
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Эссе, представленные в этом разделе, были написаны в 2005 году по результатам исследовательской школы, организованной Центром независимых социологических исследований (ЦНСИ, Санкт-Петербург). В ЦНСИ существует традиция полевых школ, когда исследователи на короткий период (обычно на две недели) выезжают в «поля» с тем, чтобы провести небольшое исследование или, точнее говоря, собрать впечатления для дальнейшей разработки темы и потренировать собственное социологическое воображение. Осенью 2005 года таким «полем» стало российско-абхазское приграничье. Неделю школа проходила на российской стороне, в приграничном поселке Веселый. Вторую неделю исследователи жили в Абхазии, в курортной Гагре.
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This is a collection of international papers on the roles that humour can play in education. It brings together authors from Australia, Canada, Colombia, the USA, and the UK. Consequently, the special issue is a collaborative effort, and while collaborative efforts come in many shapes and sizes, this particular special issue is, in many ways, a reflection of the “superdiverse” societies we live in (Blommaert & Rampton 2011), one where the differences in social locations are (re)connected through a belief that humour in the classroom is particularly effective and new forms of affinities are developed (Black 2009; González Lopera 2015; Mora 2013a, 2014). Modern technology makes the creation of such networks a more expedient process. The papers comprising this issue were first presented as a panel at the Ninth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Mora 2013b). The panel was judged a success and reinforced the collegial bonds among the authors. Issues of relevance for the authors emerged from the panel in relation to the new ways in which all the authors have tackled humour as an educational tool. All the presentations showed the need to look more deeply at these issues from a contemporary perspective. Thus the process of taking part in the panel critically developed the ideas in this special issue. This special issue is important because it provides
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The book was published in 1905 at Bucharest,Socecu Publishing House andis illustrated beautifully with images from Wolkenberg's postcards from Chisinau. It is afacsimile reproduction made by Publishing House ,,Semne” of the original work. But thefirst image shows a reproduction after a lithograph from 1837, executed by Raffet, titledBessarabian Mail Cart.
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The paper outlines a series of introductory remarks on the dossier “Philosophical perspectives on embodied cognition and interaction.” The first section identifies two major philosophical issues emerged as crucial in the investigations related to embodied cognition and challenged their conceptual limits: (1) situated action and interactions, and (2) the interface problem. A discussion of the way in which the embodied-enactivist accounts might improve our understanding of diverse forms of embodied cognitive practices can be found in the following section. It ends with a short overview of the key topics and arguments of the papers selected in the dossier.
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The Editorial team welcomes you to the September 2021 issue of New Perspectives. The relationship between protest and memory runs through this issue. All forms of societal critique treat the past and present as the ‘antechamber’ to what may come next (Koselleck, 1988). This means every protest movement is bound up with historical storytelling, today increasingly framed by the unravelling of the post-cold war order visible in domestic political contestation, rising populism and geopolitical tensions in Europe. Standing behind this is a degree of loss of faith in the utopian philosophies of history invented to resolve the crisis of the enlightenment’s challenge to autocracy in Europe.
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The article is an attempt of synthetic look about the most important problems raised as part of the so-called memory studies, the author highlights those topics and presents lectures that are used in literary studies that are present in the framework of memory turn.
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Ove godine navršava se punih deset godina otkada je pod istim naslovom bio objavljen jedan prilog u Vrelima, glasilu Ogranka Matice hrvatske Daruvar za znanost, kulturu I umjetnost. Tada sam u uvodnom dijelu napisao da smo zakoračili u 21. stoljeće i da Daruvar još nema jednu cjelovitu monografiju u kojoj bi se mogli pronaći osnovni podaci o svim segmentima života na ovim prostorima, od najstarijih vremena do danas. Stoga smo se tada morali, pa i danas se moramo zadovoljavati monografijom Daruvar iz 1975. godine u kojoj je na najbolji način prikazan cjelovit prikaz Daruvara i njegove okolice. Unatoč njezinim mnogim nedostacima, ipak se mora priznati da ovu monografiju u izdanju Turističkog društva Daruvar nije dosad svojim pisanim sadržajem nadmašila nijedna kasnija monografija.
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This article marks the first decade of the European Journal of Humour Research. We wish to thank all our Authors and Editorial Team members – Editorial Assistants, members of the International Editorial Board, and Reviewers from all over the world, who have been working hard for many years – all pro bono publico. We welcome new contributors and collaborators in the coming decade.
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