„Niech się bawią"? O związkach radykalności z karnawałem na demonstracjach publicznych kobiet.

Author(s): Dorota Rancew-Sikora,Magdalena Steciag / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 04/2017

The paper researches the relationship between radicalness and the carnival form of women's public demonstrations. The proposed multimodal analysis stresses the observation of the carnival dimension of women's protests in Poland in three meanings: as the reverse, strangeness and unfitness. It was conducted based on the example of Women's Strike in Zielona Góra, which is regarded as typical for a multi-location demonstration held on 8 March 2017. Simultaneously, references to other women's protests, that are in some distance in time and space are becoming clearly visible.

„Nieja oczy otwieram”. Etyczne czytanie i Morfina Szczepana Twardocha

Author(s): Michal Koza / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2016

This paper explores the possibilities of an ethical reading of Szczepan Twardoch’s Morphine in the wider context current notions of the ethics of literature. Koza’s aim is to show how ethical interpretations relate to the postmodern concept of subjectivity with its broadly understood ‘multilinguality’. In the case of Twardoch’s novel, this ‘multilinguality’ is particularly evident in the construction of the narrator and characters. The use of a methodology peculiar to interpretations inspired by existentialism, mainly Kierkegaardian ones, enables Koza to outline the characters’ ethical situation, as well as the axiology of the very act of interpretation.

„Nowy Wittgenstein” i jego zwolennicy

Author(s): Maciej Soin / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 60/2015

The article contains a critical analysis of the main threads of so-called resolute reading of Wittgenstein’s philosophy as presented by – among others – Cora Diamond and James Conant. Two elements of their claims are particularly discussed, namely (1) the thesis presenting Tractatus as the set of plain nonsenses, and (2) the belief, that the reflection on a relation between language and reality necessarily ends up with plain nonsense. An argument against first conviction is (1) an alternative account of Wittgenstein’s thesis about Unsinnigkeit of the sentences of Tractatus (6.54). Moreover, one can show, that (2)Wittgenstein rejects the thesis about impossibility to present the Form der Abbildung with the model of language interpreted as a calculus.

„Otiš’o je svak’ ko valja – Rambo Amadeus, Eurovizija i crnogorski turizam“

Author(s): Adriana Sabo / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 3/2013

In this paper, I will focus my attention on the latest song by Rambo Amadeus, titled Euro Neuro, and it’s music video, that are meant to represent Montenegro on the Eurovision song contest. Given the fact that, from the beginning of his career in late 1980’s, the main goal of his musical output was to make fun of the musical mainstream, I would like to shed some light on his decision to enter the aforementioned contest, using theories of media and popular music. I would argue that by deciding to do so, he entered the “world” of mainstream that he, up until recently, mocked. I’m going to analyze musical, textual and visual content of his latest song, and of another song, Glupi hit (Stupid Hit, in which he mocks musical hits), in order to point out that he entered the field of mainstream thanks to some changes in the visual presentation of the song, whilst his music remained the same as is was in, for example Glupi hit.

„Paradoks kłamcy" w perspektywie hermeneutycznej

Author(s): Bogna Choinska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 11/2009

The aim of my article is to present "the liar's paradox" from a non empirical perspective of the language. The paradox may be as though "resolved" (but in just another way then it is done within the semantics view by Tarski), among other things, thanks to Lacan's psychoanalysis. Namely "the liar's paradox" which is connected with a division between a statement and an enunciation is treated by Lacan as accompanying a subject during his (her) process of gaining a certainty about himself (herself) and about the world and as impossible to overcome in a traditional way. The problem of "liar's paradox" may be merely suppressed. An attempt of suppressing of a nonsense took place, according to Lacan and Foucault, within the area of "Meditations" by Descartes and maybe more in their modern interpretations. The non empirical proposition of an elimination "the liar's paradox" consists in an acceptance of the madness (as defined by Foucault) and at the same time in staying in a surface of some texts. This strategy does not allow to divide talking in two: the language and the meta-language. Moreover I try to discuss with Żiżek concept concerning with an incomprehension this problem (mainly the usage of the meta-language) by Derrida.

„Pasaulinės filosofijos“ projektai honolulu komparatyvizmo sąjūdyje: kritinis pjūvis

Author(s): Aivaras Stepukonis / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 12/2005

The article analyzes ideas of “a world philosophy” formulated by the members of the Honolulu movement of comparative philosophy. This intellectual movement came about through the close cooperation of three institutions: the Department of Philosophy of Hawaii University, the scholarly journal Philosophy East and West, and the East-West Philosophers’ Conferences. The Movement achieved significant scientific results and attracted the attention of humanistic scholars all around the world. The accomplishments of the Honolulu movement of comparative philosophy are placed at the forefront of contemporary humanities. The movement constitutes the exact historical context, the center of intellectual activity, where the ideas of “a world philosophy” were generated and discussed in a most thorough fashion and from many different perspectives. The following conclusions were drawn: The idea of “a world philosophy” can be discussed logically, semantically, and phenomenologically only if it is treated as a cluster concept that has to be analyzed in its basic units of meaning. There are six distinguishable meanings of “a world philosophy” that are used by the Honolulu movement of comparative philosophy: (a) a world philosophy as philosophical syntheticism; (b) a world philosophy as philosophical universalism; (c) a world philosophy as a pathos of mutual meeting and reconciliation; (d) a world philosophy as a pathos of mutual complementation and enrichment; (e) a world philosophy as a comparative historiography of ideas; (f) a world philosophy as philosophical cosmopolitanism. The idea of “a world philosophy” in its search for different models of philosophical dialog between the cultures of the East and the West most often stumbles, but in doing so it guards against many philosophical pitfalls. Thus, this seemingly negative outcome of a world philosophy becomes a positive theoretical achievement and it can properly be understood only as such. The failure of philosophical syntheticism teaches us not to generalize, not to project unity where it is absent, and especially to avoid creating it artificially. The East and the West are rather confusing, vague cultural categories. So much so that it is far better to speak about individual geographical locations than about abstract cultural clusters. Philosophical syntheticism as a conception is ungrounded and as a project is impossible to implement. The failure of philosophical universalism teaches us not to confuse empirical findings from the common foundations of all cultures with the aprioristic concept of such a common foundation, which perhaps could be justified and applied in the political context of “building a common future”, but hardly has any philosophical support. Philosophical universalism – under the name of “a world philosophy” – as it is stated by the Honolulu movement of comparative philosophy is unfounded.

„Ściana jest niema, a drzwi przemawiają” (G. Simmel). Kilka uwag o topografii spotkania

Author(s): Michal Podstawski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 26/2013

“Meeting” is one of these concepts, which in the most recent philosophy have received significant meaning. In some interpretations it is the instruction to “meet” – so to establish the unmediated relation with the Other – is the factor, which allows to break free from the pressure of the “Hegelian bite” and problems resulting from it. It turns out that the ennoblement of the subject made by the German idealism in fact limited the reality only to its exteriorisation – and thus put into question the possibility of reaching the reality, including the reality of other people. "Meeting" would be the bridge thanks to which this reach (again) becomes possible. However, it seems that speaking about the “meeting” we still too rarely think about the prerequisites, which must be met, so that the subject can open itself to accept the Other. This is an important analysis because, first of all, it allows to judge whether the whole project of the postphenomenological philosophy can be defended in the practical perspective, and secondly – it is a key indicator that allows the further development of the human thought. It turns out that for the elementary human experience the “meeting” is not an excess, and the opening to what is unusual is the natural element of the existence of human cultures. And this instruction should be used in today’s philosophizing – in order to overcome the basic aporias of modernity with its edge.

„Stała pokusa wiary”. Współczesne bałwochwalstwo i jego geneza

Author(s): Janusz Królikowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2017

Looking at some reputedly religious phenomena in today’s world we could openly ask whether these phenomena don’t fall, in certain cases, into a category of a new kind of idolatry which means replacing God with a creature. It is the world of human sensations and experiences that should be especially taken into consideration, sensations and experiences which are often regarded as religious or which, in some cases, undergo the process of absolutisation, whereas this is only a kind of concentration on oneself or on a particular thing. It has been noticed quite accurately, that modern times can be characterised by a shift “from wooden idols to spiritual idols”. Therefore, there is an urgent need for philosophical and theological perspective on this broad sphere of experiences, and for a question whether those experiences create new idols and, by the same token, whether they are idolatrous in character. To answer these questions responsibly and coherently we have to define the origins of idolatry and concurrently find the appropriate criteria which will enable us to evaluate theologically respective phenomena which may appear questionable. This very issue constitutes the subject of this study.

„Świat Słowiański” [1905–1914]

Author(s): Leszek Gawor / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

„Twórzmy relacje, a nie dzieci”. Wspólne życie na zniszczonej planecie w chthulucenie Donny Haraway

Author(s): Aleksandra Derra / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2017

The aim of the article is to discuss the basic assumptions, theses and solutions of Donna Haraway’s book “Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene”. The author places the considerations of an American philosopher and biologist on the background of her earlier books and conceptual proposals. She analyses her suggestion of using the category of Chthulucene instead of Anthropocene, the category of sympoietic system instead of an autopoietic one, she presents her appeal for creating new forms of kinship and extensive response-ability for each other.

„Vásárolok, tehát vagyok.” A személy a kapitalizmusban

Author(s): Manfred Prisching / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 15/2011

The main aim of the essay is to shed light on how consumption, identity and capitalism relate to each other. According to the premise of the writing, nowadays individuals can be described with the concept of animal consumers, because after the decreasing importance of the great narratives and the ideologies in the second half of the 20th century, it has been consumption, which became the core element on which identifies are constructed. This epoch – second modernity – is characterized by individualization: identity construction mainly revolves around the construction of the uniqueness, distinctiveness and authenticity of the individual. In this context consumption becomes a way of communication: one of the main functions of buying and consuming is to represent individual identities. On the one hand, the second part of the writing focuses on how values change due to the changing role of consumption. On the other hand, it analyzes the social conditions, which are required for the reproduction of such identityconsumption relations. The author uses the notion of „two-dimensional society”, in order to describe contemporary consumer capitalism, where the main motive is conformist individualism.

„Vnímání je již vyjadřování“. Merleau-Pontyho první přednášky na Collège de France

Author(s): Jan Halák / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 52/2017

In his initial lecture course at the Collège de France, Merleau-Ponty attempted to develop a new analysis of rational thought in order to clarify its link with corporeal-perceptive life. The formulation of thought in lan- guage as the most elaborate human activity of expression explicitly takes over what we already observe in perception as the implicit and mutual reference between the perceiving subject and that which is perceived. The article reconstructs Merleau-Ponty’s argumentat, based on his preparatory notes for the lectures, and provides an interpretation of the key concepts of “expression” and “body schema”.

„Wszystko, co powiesz, może być użyte przeciwko Tobie”, czyli o odpowiedzialności etycznej filozofów za słowo pisane

Author(s): Joanna Janicka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2016

Providing the problems with the exegesis of the philosophers thought, the author tries to recognize the reasons of this situation. She contemplates both the purposeful beclouding as well as the impossi-bility of giving the precise expression of the object of cognition. The author indicates, that when the reader meets the article, the latter stops being the author`s own belonging, which gives rise to the matter of responsibility for the author`s words. It is of the utmost importance when the possible interpretations considers the authority and the historical context of re-reading of the philosophy text.

„Zejście” do transcendentnego: sur-stancja i doświadczenie w mikrofizyce

Author(s): Anastazja Czeiz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2015

The phenomenon of wave-particle duality, dependent on the technical incorporation of micro-reality, emphasized that conceptualization of substance on the micro-level could be adapted neither with its classical conceptualization, nor with the human’s common sense. Therefore, new experience needs new conceptualization. Inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s reflections about the surrationalism, in the present article is realizing the presentation of microphysics’ substance as sur-stance and the experience of micro-reality as the peculiar empirical transcendence. In turn, this refers to the perspective of investigation of microphysics as new metaphysics.

„Ziarno prawdy” jako nieklasyczna narracja spiskowa

Author(s): Beata Koper,Jakub Misun / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 02/2016

The article outlines possible links between three types of narrative: conspiracy, critical and crime narratives. The basic methodological assumption here is that questions need to be asked about how a narrative works rather than about what genre it represents. The essay’s thesis raises questions about the need to change our understanding of the role of conspiracy theories in reconstructing the causes and courses of events. The authors argue in support of conspiracy theory as a potential narrative, because they find nothing particular in its means of reasoning that would allow us to draw a distinct boundary between conspiracy theory and critical theory within the meaning proposed by Bruno Latour. A crime narrative – Zygmunt Miłoszewski’s novel Grain of Truth – is used as a tool to analyse the functioning of a conspiracy narrative in the detective story. Utilising the division into classical and non-classical conspiracy meta-narratives proposed by Franciszek Czech, the authors of the article ask questions about the limits of the detective’s rational conduct, and the sources of his hypotheses and means of argumentation.

„Zwierzęta musiały być czujne”

Author(s): Arkadiusz Górnisiewicz,Joanna Bednarek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 752/2018

„Анти-Маркс“, три тезиса

Author(s): Krasimir Delchev / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2018

The article criticizes Marx’s political economy.

„Бесове“: психиатрия, антропология, метафизика

Author(s): Nina Ivanova Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2018

The proposed text discusses the adequacy of the psychiatric interpretation of Dostoevsky’s works, and especially of his novel “The Devils”. The author analyses the views of the most popular literary critics insisting on the psychopathological characters as an expression of the inner life of Dostoevsky himself, as well as some Russian psychiatric texts on the same topic. The main idea of the article is that the pathology of Dostoevsky’s fictional characters is rooted in the spiritual – and not in the psychological – sphere and despite the close resemblance between some clinical cases and the behavior of these characters, the latter is due to the conception of the demonic mangodhood and its different incarnations.

„Време и битие" и битието на времето

Author(s): Vassil Penchev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2010

„Методологическата война между социалните науки?“

Author(s): Diana Danova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2009

An Echo from a “Round Table” About the Contemporary Problems of Social Sciences