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This article aims to show the dehumanization of the individual and the dismantlement of values as depicted in Lukas Barfuss’ play, entitled Oil. These processes are inextricably linked with an unbridled lust for money that ultimately leads to tragedy. Starting with a reference to ancient energy and moving through the (post)colonial relations and the knowledge-power dyad, as theorised by Michel Foucault, a possible interpretation of Barfuss’ work is presented.
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Reviews of: Roman koji nas želi učiniti boljima: Renato Baretić: Osmi povjerenik. AGM, Zagreb, 2003; Rušenje mita o ženi s plakata: Rujana Jeger: Posve osobno. Profil, Zagreb, 2003; Tristo režija Tita Strozzija: Ana Lederer: Redatelj Tito Strozzi. Meandar, 2003; Ogled o svjetskoj književnosti: Milivoj Solar: Povijest svjetske književnosti. Kratki pregled. Golden marketing, Zagreb, 2003; Staro i novo viđenje hrvatske filozofije: Ljerka Schiffler: Vetera et nova. Hrvatska filozofija u europskom obzoru. Biblioteka Filozofska istraživanja, Zagreb, 2004; Pogled izvana na hrvatske mitove i mitologeme: Joanna Rapacka: Leksikon hrvatskih tradicija. Preveo Dalibor Blažina. Matica hrvatska, Biblioteka Posebna izdanja, urednica Jelena Hekman, Zagreb, 2002; O pjesničkim subjektima iz vlastitog motrišta: Mladen Machiedo: Zrakasti subjekt. Talijanski pjesnici 20. stoljeća (antologija), I, II. Ceres, Zagreb, 2003; Stav’te pamet na komediju: Antonia Blasina: Hrvatska komedija 17. stoljeća. Zagreb, Matica hrvatska, 2003; Traktat o teokraciji: Vladimir Sergejevič Solovjov: Povijest i budućnost teokracije. Prevela s ruskoga Vanja Monti Graovac. Prometej, Zagreb, 2003; Banket u Litvi: Jonathan Franzen: Korekcije. Prevela Nataša Ozmec. VBZ, Zagreb, 2002; Samoljublje žargona: Andre Gide: Traktat o Narcisu. Prevela s francuskoga Tina Andrijić. AGM, 2003; Tijelo kao novootkriveni kontinent Angela Carter: Čarobna prodavaonica igračaka. Prevela s engleskoga Davorka Herceg-Lockhart. Profil, Zagreb, 2003; Tijelo kao novootkriveni continent: Angela Carter: Čarobna prodavaonica igračaka. Prevela s engleskoga Davorka Herceg-Lockhart. Profil, Zagreb, 2003.
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The paper discusses and analyzes the specificities of the creative interpretation as a reading comprehension. The creative product, especially in philosophy with a cause, is described as a personal projection of the author in the light of his/her professional background, values preferences, existential psychology. A special attention is paid to the value aspect of the creative process and the role of the author’s attitude within it. The studies in the philosophical-anthropological sphere are debated within the same perspective; the intellectual and the social challenges the author usually meets in this process are discussed.
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The modern technological situation of interaction and universal connectivity of intelligent systems, smart platforms and artificial intelligence puts humanity in front of new moral and existential problems that affect its future as a species and humane treatment as the basis of fundamental human values – justice, freedom, well-being. In this context, the authors offer their analysis of the human-data nexus, the mass digital practice of personal data expropriation and the hidden coercion behind it as a new kind of enslaving addiction – digital slavery. According to the authors, this slavery can be considered a result of the emergence and development of the so-called post-human capitalism – a term introduced by Y. Ibrahim to denote the use of technological possibilities for data processing in the service of extracting added value and capitalizing on new spheres of life. The main conclusion is that dealing with new technological threats cannot rely on legal regulation alone and needs a humanitarian reading and revision of the principles driving social, economic and societal progress.
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In the context of the theoretical uncertainty of the phenomenon of Architecture, two opposing positions are compared, after some similarities between them have been identified. One belongs to the author, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arch. Emil Yordanov, to which he dedicated a monograph. The idea is to clarify the phenomenon of Architecture by delving into the stages of its development, in parallel with the determining stages in the development of culture and mentality. Within this interaction, personal architectural professionalism is being cultivated. The other position – of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arch. Todor Tsigov, accepts Architecture as a myth, whose utilitarian and artistic sides are (respectively) real and similar, i. e. – qualitatively different manifestations of essence, that do not interact objectively: two autonomous objects in a common entity. The interaction with the real manifestations of essence turns out to be a ritual towards the similar, mythologising them as real. Out of this follows the suggestive potential of Architecture and a conclusion about the architectural nature of perceptions and the religious nature of the psyche. The comparison between the two theses reveals unusual aspects of the phenomenon Architecture – beyond the professional practice, with humanitarian and philosophical significance.
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Associate Professor Emilia Mineva was an established university teacher and historian of philosophy. Her rich body of work encompasses a study of the heritage of philosophical ideas in the 19th century with an emphasis, but not exclusively, on studies of Marxist philosophy, intellectual history of anarchism, philosophical ethics, etc. The field of her scientific interest included topics from all areas of philosophical knowledge, which she summarized as an author, editor, translator, and compiler. The article traces the professional path of prof. E. Mineva, focusing on the important moments in the content of her philosophical works, and is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of her birth.
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This article focuses upon young people’s negative stress and anxiety in an educationsetting through a metamodern lens. The driving question of this project is the recurring issue: given the many factors that stress young people these days, how can we address those stressors? The aim is to shed some light on what educators can do to help young persons who live with anxiety. We also aim to create a short publication of received responses to forward to education authorities worldwide. In discussing the issue, we are drawing upon our personal experiences, creative processes, and recognized research from multicultural practitioners in the disciplines of medicine, education, art, sociology, and philosophy. The focus will not be on theoretical solutions, but on practical, creative ones. Metamodern attitudes propose that past texts can hold ever renewed relevance for the present. Accordingly, this narrative is told in an epistolary format complemented by a questionnaire and contemporary responses to an essay written in the middle of modernity some 80 years ago by New Zealand born kinetic artist Len Lye in collaboration with British writer Robert Graves, “Individual Happiness Now: A Definition of Common Purpose”. Responding to Lye’s essay “in the now of immediate action” calls for a focus upon “timing” our “position” in the world and an ethics of care, as well as endeavours to “stimulate [the] dormant intensity” of the present (1).
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The present review of the book AI for Arts by Niklas Hageback and Daniel Hedblom summarizes the main ideas of the concise volume which can act as a guide for those interested in the emergence of Artificial Intelligence, regardless of their level of knowledge. The four chapters are comprehensive enough to understand the origins of art and the events which have changed it, the current state of art of Artificial Intelligence in the creative field, and how it is already influencing the landscape of art, and finally, the direction it is heading and what the potential consequences of the hypothetical autonomy of Artificial Intelligence are. The present book is here to debunk the mystification hovering around AI, which is often portrayed by media as a monster destined to replace humans altogether. Art, which seems to be something that can only be made by humans, is also directly "threatened" by technological progress. As the book's authors present, it is time for authentic creativity to come to the fore.
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The review deals with two monographs that examine the post-Stalinist period from different perspectives: "Soudruzi a jejich svět: Sociálně myšlenková tvářnost komunismu" [Comrades and Their World: The Social Mindset of Communism] by Pavel Kolář, originally published in German under the title "Der Poststalinismus: Ideologie und Utopie einer Epoche" (Köln/R. – Weimar – Wien 2016) and "„Rehabilitovat Marxe!“ Československá stranická inteligence a myšlení post-stalinské modernity" [“Rehabilitate Marx!” The Czechoslovak Party Intelligentsia and Thought in Post-Stalinist Modernity] by Jan Mervart and Jiří Růžička. The review describes both studies and focuses on their common and different features. Kolář, over five different thematic areas – the concept of history, the Communist Party, the nation, enemies and of time – attempts to grasp the “world of meaning” of the Communist Party members in Czechoslovakia, Poland and the German Democratic Republic in the period from Stalin’s death to the end of the 1960s. Mervart and Růžička examine the thinking of Marxist philosophers in Czechoslovakia in the same period, focusing on their conceptions of structure, people, nation, revolution and new subjectivity. Despite the stark differences between the actors under study and the obvious diversities in the concept of post-Stalinism, both studies seek to establish the period as a distinct historical era during which the questioning of Stalinist dogmas and the search for new possibilities of socialism were decisive. The end result is two very stimulating monographs. However, their – also common – major weakness lies in their lack of regard for the social context of the actors examined.
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Far from nourishing the image of a fantasized Orient, Devi takes a sceptical look at the ancestral culture and deconstructs the stereotypes of exotic images and those reducing women to a simple object. Taking pleasure in transgression, she rehabilitates through discursive and linguistic processes the place of the female subject in the narrative space. The author demonstrates intellectual nomadism, through the mixing of identity and culture. In Devi’s text, languages are in alchemy: they rub shoulders, inseminate and proliferate. She handles languages, makes her text dance to rhythms and intonations to accompany her universal themes with a nomadic poetic who works her work in-depth.
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Review of: Petru Cimpoeșu, Scrisori către Taisia, (Polirom, 2021) / Ion Pop, Ferestre, Antologie de autor, 1966-2021, Editura Școala Ardeleană, Cluj-Napoca / Mircea A. Diaconu, Cernăuți. Obiecte pierdute (Chișinău, Cartier, 2021, – 271 p.) / Corin Braga, Ventrilocul, Editura Polirom, 2022 / Marian Ilea, Huberta, Fundația Culturală Archeus, 2021 / Ioan Dănilă, Corina Tîrnăveanu, Bacău, Editura „Egal”, Seria „Recuperatio”, 2015, 253 p.) / Boeru, Bogdan. (2017). Șapte Sute Șaptezeci, Constanța: Ex Ponto. / Daniela Fulga, Fruntea și inelarul (Editura Grinta, Cluj, 2021)/ Ilona Duță, Travaliu creator, schizoidie, himeră în literatura română de la Mircea CĂRTĂRESCU la Mihai EMINESCU (2021), în Editura Universitaria din Craiova./ „A douăsprezecea noapte” de William Shakespeare, în regia Nonei Ciobanu. / Expozitia lui Mihail Gavril la Muzeul de Istorie din Suceava / Father Pascal Ide's conference /
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Nozick (1977) was a critique of the view of Austrian economics which rejected the notion of indifference in human action. This author claimed that this stance was incompatible with the notion of the supply of a good, and, also, with diminishing marginal utility, both of which were strongly supported by this praxeological school of thought. Block (1980) was an attempt to rescue the Austrian school from this brilliant intellectual challenge. Hoppe (2005; 2009) rejected Nozick’s challenge, and, also, Block’s (1980) response. Block (2009a) and Block and Barnett (2010), defended Block’s (1980) analysis of indifference. The latest contribution to this ongoing discussion is Wysocki (2021) who maintains that Hoppe was correct in his rejection of Nozick, while Block was not. The present paper is a rejoinder to Wysocki (2021).
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The main purpose of this article is to discuss the views of the Jesuit Stanisław Dunin–Borkowski (1864–1934) about Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. These days, Dunin–Borkowski is a rather obscure figure despite rising to fame in the interwar period as an outstanding expert in the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Thus, the secondary aim of this article is to remind ourselves of this somewhat forgotten scholar. As a researcher, writer, and pedagogue, Dunin–Borkowski was interested in numerous fields of knowledge. Among these were the natural sciences, including physics and the influence that new physical theories had on philosophical thought. This present study therefore fills a gap in the existing research about how Polish philosophers received Einstein’s theories. The example of Dunin–Borkowski also serves as a basis for discussing some of the fundamental problems of neo-scholasticism in receiving new mathematicised scientific theories.
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There have been many significant publications on Kazimierz Twardowski. Jacek Jadacki intends to add to this list another book Rozum i wola. Kazimierz Twardowski i jego wpływ na kształt kultury polskiej XX wieku. In the review it is appraised whether it can be called “a companion to. . . ”. It provides introductory information that can help readers better understand the role of Twardowski in Polish philosophy and culture. Updated findings by contemporary scholars are also included. The quality of the articles is guaranteed by such authors as J. Woleński, R. Kleszcz, A. Brożek and J. Jadacki. However, new authors are also present as well as less common topics like Twardowski’s influence on the Polish School of Philosophy of Medicine and his roles as political scientist, educational theorist, and historian of Ancient philosophy. The authors manage to convince the reader that Twardowski is “a classic” worth knowing, in consequence the book can be treated as a “companion to Twardowski”. It also inspires readers to further investigate the works and accomplishments of the Lvov philosopher.
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In this article, I consider certain types of presupposition and quantitative implicatures, the interpretation of which is based on the usage of scalar expressions. The aim is to explain how presuppositions and implicatures are processed by showing the commonalities and differences between them. Solving this task will shed light on the question of the relationship between language and context. The “scalar implicature approach to presuppositions” is reviewed as a prerequisite for explaining cases in which presuppositions and implicatures are treated in a similar way. The question of consideration is that even when scalar implicatures are understood automatically and independently of context, we have preliminary pragmatic models that predetermine context and influence the way we interpret such statements and how we arrange the terms on the scale. This approach is used as a prerequisite for the possibility of talking about degrees in the scales – i.e., cases of an utterance involving scalar expressions, where the same expression – both in presupposition and in an implicature – can mean something different to a certain degree, and yet the hearer grasp that degree of meaning without much additional effort in processing.
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This paper presents the social doctrine of the Scottish philosopher of Enlightenment, Bernard Mandeville. In the first part the philosophical milieu of Mandeville’s time is presented and the persons of science who influenced him the most. The second part summarizes his views on society. The basic source is his essay "A Search into the Nature of Society". This work was added as a prosaic explanation to his most recognizable poem "The Fable of the Bees". Mandeville claims that the basic driving force of progress is not human virtue but vice, because every virtue is driven by a hidden vice. In the conclusion it is explained why hisconcept is not compatible with the Christian anthropology
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The article discusses the concept of three “Renaissances”, as outlined by Tadeusz Zielinski in the essay “The Ancient World in the Poetry of Apollon Maykov" (1899). By “Renaissances” Zielinski meant the periodic appeals of a particular European culture to the ancient legacy and, at the same time, the beneficial cultural consequences of such appeals. According to Zielinski, two renaissances of antiquity have already taken place: the “Italian” and the “Germanic” (in the 18th–19th centuries); the next should be the “Slavonic” Renaissance. The object of attention is the imagery of Zielinski, who compares the influence of antiquity on new cultures with an oceanic flow that carries the heat of the south to the cold shores of northern Europe. It is shown that Zielinski is influenced by his immediate sources — the cultural and philosophical constructions of Hippolyte Taine and Friedrich Paulsen. It is argued that Paulsen’s text depends on Taine’s, and Zielinski uses them both. The corresponding views of Russian philologists and philosophers, who shared Zielinski’s concept, are considered. On the example of the “Hungarian” works of Karl Kerényi of the 1930s, it is shown that the belief in the beneficence and the need for the revival of antiquity for national culture was not an exclusively Russian phenomenon, but was a basic ideological archetype of the international community of European classical philologists and scholars of the first half of the 20th century.
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The present study provides a better understanding of the affinities between literature and history. This is to say more explicitly that the defects assimilated to viral pathologies which have infected the populations of Arras, the authorities (political, religious, paternal) in particular, are similar to that which the world has known for a few months, to namely the Coronavirus pandemic, also called the COVID-19. The new social order, which the latter requires, justifies the focus on the aristocratic elite who happens to be in perfect connivance with the clergy. The structural or hierarchical rearrangement of social relations accounts for a certain weakening or annihilation of the unconditional supremacy of which this elite claims the prerogative through courtly ideology. The downfall of the said elite infected with viral defects allows Adam de la Halle to initiate, through his main character Adam, a healing odyssey, under the prism of generic subversion.This translates, moreover, in a dramatic form tested positive which rubs shoulders and harmoniously forms one with many other literary genres of the medieval period, considered in turn as contact cases.
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This book explores the notion of heroism from the feminist point of view by tackling notions such as curiosity and knowledge, deeds (masculine approach) vs stories (feminine approach), creativity (at the beginning limited to the domestic area) and inquisitiveness. It also reveals uncomfortable truths about how abuse, abduction, mutilation and torture forced women into silence. Moreover, the author points out that words have the power to resist injustice and that feminine heroism means the courage to break the silence and start telling ‘your’ story through different channels (weavings, books, social media etc).
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