|
Showing 1 - 21 of
21 matches in All Departments
Polish Literature and the Holocaust (1939-1968) scrutinizes
literary and documentary testimonies produced during or after the
extermination of Jews in the Second World War and rooted in that
historical, political, and anthropological context. Whether someone
wrote a text during or after the war influenced the nature of what
was communicated. Hence, the authors divided this publication to
separately cover two periods: 1939-1944/45 and 1945-1968. This
publication overviews belles-lettres, personal document literature,
and press publications. Almost all texts were written in the Polish
language. The genre category constitutes the basic compositional
criterion. The individual parts of our publication discuss poetry,
narrative prose, personal document literature, and the press
discourse.
This book focuses on the question of relationality. Despite the
numerous motifs introduced to the discourse pertaining to Margaret
S. Archer's concept, we notice that some often reappear. What
frequently appears is the concept of agency, closely related to the
matter of the subject's reflexivity. We also include papers that
refer to methodological dilemmas. However, all collected texts
directly consider the essence of the concept of the human person
and society in reaction to the ontology of the person proposed by
Archer. The common thread and horizon of these elaborations is
Archer's concept and Pierpaolo Donati's relational sociology. Thus,
this publication seeks to gain broader public and open new research
perspectives in sociology.
The author takes readers on a journey in the footsteps of Harlequin
and Pulcinella, two well-known commedia dell'arte masks, to show
the historically fluctuating way in which they participated in
building "Italianness" in the eyes of foreign theatre audiences
(the history of the Harlequin mask in France, Italy and Poland in
the XVII and XVIII century) and local ones (the history of the
Pulcinella mask, or the Italian dialect theatre of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, which historians, at a certain point,
erased from the process of the creation and construction of the
Italian national community). Using modern performance studies
methodologies, this book effectively cuts the distance between past
and present theatre practices, opening new prospects for an active
and clearly situated epistemology for theatre studies, cultural
studies, media studies, and performance studies.
The book presents the discoveries made by the Polish archaeological
mission in Saqqara, the central part of the largest ancient
Egyptian royal necropolis. The area adjacent to the Pyramid of King
Djoser on the monument's west side, so far neglected by
archaeologists, turned out to be an important burial place of the
Egyptian nobility from two periods of Pharaonic history: the Old
Kingdom (the late third millennium BC) and the Ptolemaic Period
(the late first millennium BC). The earlier, lower cemetery yielded
rock-hewn tombs with splendid wall decoration in relief and
painting. The book also describes methods of conservation applied
to the discovered artefacts and episodes from the mission's life.
The book analyses the ideological and philosophical basis of
Zionism, i.e. how Zionism solved the most important problems of
Jews in the last decades of the 19th century: the problem of
assimilation, the philosophical principles of national identity,
the idea of self-liberation and the conception of the Jewish state.
Another problem discussed in this book is how the religious idea of
"Return to Zion" became both philosophical and political goals. All
considerations are based on the analysis of the source texts of the
protagonists and founders of Zionism (Hess, Pinsker, Herzl and
Nordau). Zionism is also shown in the perspective of its strength
and weakness, as well as its importance for Jewishness in general.
The book presents a collection of articles authored by several
members of the Warsaw School of Political Theory, affiliated with
the University of Warsaw. The team of scholars, whose roots extend
to the 1970s when professor Artur Bodnar founded the Political
Theory Research Group at University of Warsaw's Methodical Centre
for Political Science (COM SNP), has been conducting research under
the leadership of professor Miros(3)aw Karwat. The school's most
distinguishing features include: the acceptance of the directives
and principles of methodological holism, the acceptance and
creative development of holistic integral definitions, the
application of sociocentric spatial analyses, and a critical
approach to the "cratocentric" tradition.
The book discusses how the most severe abuses of political power,
traditionally termed from the ancient times as 'tyranny', were
presented in 16th century political philosophy, propaganda, and
literature in Italy, France, England, Scotland, German countries,
and Poland-Lithuania. Using a unique interdisciplinary methodology,
the book is both timeless and timely as it demonstrates various
approaches of acknowledged Renaissance intellectuals to the problem
of tyranny and how best to avoid or fight it. The author
consciously avoids categories of the classic history of ideas or
political thought and instead reveals broader intellectual and
cultural connections in the perception of tyranny in the 16th
century and its impact on modern debates on different dangers of
political abuses of power.
In 1239, king Louis IX of France performed the translation of the
Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to Paris. The translation
celebrations became a splendid religious festivity showing sacral
foundations of Saint Louis's authority and the Capetian kingship.
However, the translation of the Crown of Thorns to France had
already a history under Louis's reign: French hagiographers and
chroniclers affirmed that the first relics of the Crown of Thorns
from Constantinople were transferred to Aachen by Charlemagne, then
to Saint-Denis Abbey by Charles the Bald. The book discusses Saint
Louis's translation of the Crown of Thorns as seen on the
background of both Carolingian historical memory in Capetian era
and Carolingian and Capetian tradition of the royal cult of relics.
The book answers fundamental questions about the processes of
social negotiation of mentality shifts in communist Poland. Taking
divorce, single motherhood, domestic violence and abortion as
examples, it analyzes the level of acceptance toward tabus grounded
in tradition, and the course of negotiating new meanings and using
social exclusion when dealing with new phenomena. The author uses
not only national documents, but also ego-documents and cultural
texts to prove the macrosocietal dictatorship in the years
1956-1989 contributed not to the revolutionization of society at
the family level, but to its perpetuation. The family references
made by the communist authorities, especially in the last two
decades of their regime, can be treated as one of the factors
legitimizing the system.
The monograph describes the history of the Polish diaspora in the
Habsburg monarchy in the historical, institutional, legal,
political, and organizational context. In the period of the Dual
Monarchy (1867-1918), the Poles who lived under the
Austro-Hungarian regime sought to influence the fate of their
nation and state primarily through an active involvement in
parliamentary life and state administration. The study of the
social and political activity of the Poles in the Austrian
partition reveals their political heritage, which influenced not
only the Polish idea of patriotism but also the formation of the
Polish political culture rooted in the European tradition of
parliamentarism and constitutionalism.
This monograph demonstrates that the books of Exodus-Numbers, taken
together, are the result of one, highly creative, hypertextual
reworking of the book of Deuteronomy. This detailed reworking
consists of around 1,200 strictly sequentially organized
conceptual, and at times also linguistic correspondences between
Exodus-Numbers and Deuteronomy. The strictly sequential,
hypertextual dependence on Deuteronomy explains numerous surprising
features of Exodus-Numbers. The critical analysis of Exodus-Numbers
as a coherently composed hypertextual work disproves hypotheses of
the existence in these writings of Priestly and non-Priestly
materials or multiple literary layers.
Polish queen Marie Casimire Sobieska, French by birth, left the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the death of her husband king
John III and settled in Rome in 1699. Supported by her son, Prince
Aleksander Sobieski, the queen dowager created at her Roman
residence in Palazzo Zuccari one of Rome's most important opera
theatres. She used music and drama to uphold her social status and
political plans, satisfy her aesthetic needs, and provide
entertainment for the granddaughter under her care, along with her
ever more ailing son. This is the first monograph about Sobieska's
music patronage. The book describes works by such eminent artists
as Carlo S. Capece, Filippo Juvarra, and Domenico Scarlatti, along
with the atmosphere of Rome of that time, the sociopolitical role
of the festa, and the music theatre genres it employed.
This monograph demonstrates that the book of Genesis is a result of
highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Deuteronomy.
This detailed reworking consists of around 1,000 strictly
sequentially organized conceptual, and at times also linguistic
correspondences between Genesis and Deuteronomy. The strictly
sequential, hypertextual dependence on Deuteronomy explains
numerous surprising features of Genesis. The critical analysis of
Genesis as a coherently composed hypertextual work disproves
hypotheses of the existence in this writing of Priestly and
non-Priestly materials or multiple literary layers.
This book is the first integral study of the history of imitative
or co-creative artistic work that has led to the creation of cello
transcriptions and arrangements. Of an interdisciplinary character,
it explores the views that have shaped approaches to the art of
cello performance and describes the role of cello transcriptions
and the development of instrument making. The book also addresses
issues related to philosophy, history of aesthetics and visual
arts, including iconography presenting historical images of the
cello. The theoretical part contains definitions and systematics
that make it possible to categorise the vast amount of
transcriptions, as well as descriptions and suggested recordings of
a selection of those transcriptions.
This book reexamines the origins and growth of the medieval
inquisition which provided a framework for the large-scale
operations against religious dissidents. In the last quarter of the
twelfth century, the papacy launched concerted efforts to hunt out
heretics, mostly Cathars and Waldensians, and directed operations
against them all across Latin Christendom. The bull of Pope Lucius
III Ad abolendam of 1184 became a turning point in the formation of
the inquisitorial system which made both the clergy and the laity
responsible for suppressing any religious dissent. From a
comparative perspective, the study analyzes political, social and
religious developments which in the High Middle Ages gave birth to
the mechanism of repression and religious violence supervised by
the papacy and operated by bishops and, starting from the 1230s,
papal inquisitors, extraordinary judges delegate staffed mostly by
Dominican and Franciscan friars.
This is a book about impending catastrophe. The metaphorical insane
"run" ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The book
focuses on European culture of the late nineteenth century and the
Polish contribution to it. The word "dark" used to describe
modernity is understood as a metaphor of gradual and permanent
devaluation of the idea of progress, as a fading hope for the
future of Europe as bright, predictable, prosperous, and safe. The
"darkening" also receives a literal sense. At the end of the
nineteenth century, darkness found its way back to the public space
- in the theaters, panoramas, dioramas, and "love tunnels", which
awaited the visitors of American and European amusement parks.
In the nineteenth century, state policy towards prostitution was
primarily shaped by an assessment of its role in spreading venereal
diseases. In this book, the author traces normative and
organisational efforts of the authorities of the Kingdom of Poland,
which sought to maintain control over prostitution and the health
of women who offered paid sexual services. The author uses data
collected by the police and medical authorities supervising legal
and illegal prostitution to provide a demographic and sociological
picture of the big-city and small-town market of sexual commerce.
It was only in the early twentieth century when prostitution became
an important subject of the Polish public debate, a process which
is described in the book against the backdrop of the major issues
and fears of the epoch.
Ancient Greek history holds a special place in the works of many
19th-c. writers. The same goes for Cyprian Norwid, one of the most
eminent poets in the history of Polish literature, a thinker, and
an artist. This book scrutinizes Norwid's fascination with Greek
history and culture, especially his peculiar synthesis of Greek
thought and Christianity. It focuses on the key themes of the
relationship of Platonism with early Christian writings and their
presence in Norwid's contemporary culture, the opposition of memory
and history in 19th-c. literature and social life, and the image of
the artist and its influence on social life in modern everyday. The
book analyzes Norwid's oeuvre in a broad comparison with
representatives of French, German, and British literature and the
humanities.
In recent years, the terms "ethics," "politics," "performativity,"
and "experience" have proliferated throughout the discourse of the
humanities. However, it is rarely noted that their contemporary
understanding has been shaped by the works of Jacques Derrida, who
has employed all these concepts since the mid-1960s. The aim of
this book is to present the lesser discussed topics of Derrida's
thought - not only as the creator of a specific mode of
interpretation called "deconstruction" but also as an initiator of
recent ethical and political reflection, a pioneer of performatics,
and a precursor of current research on experience. At the same
time, the book provides a panorama of the most important changes in
the humanities of the last thirty years, and in particular - the
ethical, performative, and empirical turns.
This book presents a collection of essays discussing a history of
the five myths of Dionysus, Narcissus, Prometheus, Marcolf, and
Labyrinth in twentieth-century literature. The author traces their
transformations against the wider backdrop of Polish and European
literature. The book is an excellent, thought-provoking lesson in
understanding the signs of contemporary culture and a fascinating
journey through its complex trails.
Post-analytical philosophy of law departs from the traditional view
which considers philosophical cognition merely as a sense-making
and optimizing activity. It also questions the apparently universal
and objective character of the theorems put forward by existing
analytical philosophy. Just like every scientific trend whose name
is supplemented with the "post" prefix, it does not break with its
past, but rather seeks to critically revisit its established
achievements. The main goal of post-analytical philosophy is no
longer to impose a conceptual structure upon chaos in the realm of
legal and political phenomena. Rather, it seeks to deconstruct the
analytical, both philosophical and legal, narrative to expose it as
a collection of schemes which oversimplify - if not mystify - the
legal and political reality. This kind of diagnosis paves the way
towards the construction of a positive program of post-analytical
philosophy of law, which the focus of this book.
|
You may like...
Holy Fvck
Demi Lovato
CD
R440
Discovery Miles 4 400
Barbie
Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling
Blu-ray disc
R266
Discovery Miles 2 660
|