Shabbatai Donnolo, Sefer hakhmoni, Introduzione, testo critico e traduzione italiana annotata e commentata. review.
More..."Qui a touché nom manteau?" La guérison d'une femme atteinte de flux de sang (Marc 5: 24b-34) á la croisée du texte, de l'image et du tabou dans la culture visuelle du haut Moyen-Âge
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Abstract: Maps drawn by cultural policies and the arts have accompanied the political and territorial rearrangements of South East Europe during the 20th century. At the be-ginning stands the Yugoslav avant-garde movement Zenitizam. It proclaimed the ʺBal-kanisation of Europeʺ as a programme of creative destruction of established aestheti-cal-ethical and political systems, to be achieved by unleashing the Balkanic force. De-lineating the semantic shifts in the reassessment of the terminus technicus ʹBalkanisa-tionʹ, the cultural and artistic topographies reveal the coherence between politics, vio-lence and art. The paper discusses these topographies and the implicit strategies of demarcation that are in contrast to stereotyped concepts of the Balkans and Yugosla-via. In these strategies, ʹBalkanisationʹ manifests itself as a figure that runs opposite to the delimitation of geographical, political and cognitive spaces.
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Abstract: Starting from an overview of the political background of the Kosovo issue, rooted in Serb and Albanian history, the paper then describes the main features of the current situation: 'nothing more than autonomy' from one side, 'nothing less than inde-pendence' for the other. Against this background, the authors then examine the recently formulated vision of EU involvement in Kosovo after the status settlement, as set out in a series of joint reports by High Representative Solana and Commissioner Rehn over the last couple of years. This is followed by a concise description and critical evaluation of the EU record in Kosovo since 1999 and a brief discussion of the challenges that await the planned EU rule of law mission and other EU actions in Kosovo. Linkages with other EU instruments and policies are also considered in this context, as is the broader context of activities by other actors of the international community involved in the Kosovo issue. The paper concludes on a number of recommendations regarding future EU activi-ties in Kosovo, as well as their impact on the stability of Kosovo's direct and wider neighbourhood. These address both the EU's material presence in and financial support for Kosovo itself, and the need to clarify membership prospects – and conditions – for the whole region.
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Abstract: In 2006 the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs replaced most of the text books for primary schools with new ones. The new history text (16th - 20th century) for the 6th class soon attracted intense criticisms, initiated by Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens. Politicians from across the political spec-trum, organizations, public figures, and mass media joined in the attack against the text for allegedly distorting Greek national history and destroying national memory. In reality the book tried to incorporate the scholarship of academic his-torians and to break with some nationalist myths that have dominated the teach-ing of history since the 19th century. Whereas education minister Giannakou re-sisted demands to recall the book, her successor withdrew it after the elections in September 2007.
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Abstract: Transformation and EU integration produced remarkable changes in the pattern of sectoral and regional production and employment structure of the new EU member states. Adjustment to structural changes requires, among other things, a more flexible labour market combined with satisfactory levels of social security. The concept of flexicurity with its main components unemployment benefits, active labour market policy, and employment protection legislation stands for the European social model. In the framework of the European Employment Strategy it is considered to be the an-swer to the challenges of globalization. Following a brief review of labour market de-velopment in Bulgaria and Romania flexicurity is used as yardstick to characterize Bul-garian and Romanian labour market systems, according to the chosen trade-offs be-tween flexibility and security. We conclude with some remarks on the problems of implementation of flexicurity in both countries.
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Abstract: This article examines the structures and some problems of Greece's educa-tional system, a subject that traditionally receives high public attention in that country. Because of the controversies surrounding the new university law, emphasis is given to the university sector. Repeated failures to reform Greece's universities and educational system are due not only to internal political and social conditions but also to the coun-try's political culture.
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Abstract: As indicated in its original subtitle "Crime as a Cultural Problem –The Rele-vance of Perceptions of Corruption to Crime Prevention. A Comparative Cultural Study in the EU-Accession States Bulgaria and Romania, the EU-Candidate States Turkey and Croatia and the EU-States Germany, Greece and United Kingdom", the research project Crime and Culture aims to develop means to optimise corruption pre-vention in the EU. The urgency of such a project is reflected in the fact that corruption holds the potential to retard seriously the process of the Community's enlargement and integration, even to the extent of threatening the very core of its concept of social order. Before going on with the presentation of research findings based on the executive summary on the project's first empirical research phase submitted by each Country Study Group, the article gives a short description of the research project, its objectives and methodology.
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Abstract: This article analyses the discourse by the Romanian state on the crimes it committed against the Jews under its rule between 1940-1944. This discussion could begin only after the end of Communism. It took a decisive turn in the period leading up to Romania's entry into NATO. Originally motivated by opportunism, this dis-course now shows signs of turning into a genuine attempt to come to terms with these crimes.
More...Keywords: Кing Archelaus I (413-399 B.C.); military reforms; monetary reforms; politic reforms; cultural reforms.
The Macedonian Kingdom had very many capable rulers who provided free politic, economic, military and cultural development of the state towards the pedestal of the powerful Balkans factor and the world empire through decades. Among them special place takes the Macedonian king Archelaus I (413–399 B.C.) who successfully stroke back at the Hellenic world on all fields of the social, politic, economic and cultural life. In rivalry for prestige he used all the traditional Macedonian experience but without reserve he accepted, supported and propagandized the prohellenism not to assimilate his people but to give new civilization glow and reputation to the king court and with the prohellenic propaganda to acquire the Hellenic world in order to impose more easily the Macedonian political hegemony. After he ensured the throne, for quick development of the state in order to keep pace with the contemporary civilization course he performed important politic, economic, military and cultural reforms.
More...Keywords: cultural identity; multiculturalism; cultural semiospheres; intercultural communication; literary-cultural interpretation.
This paper is primarily an overview of the past tradition in defining the very complex notion of culture. In this sense, it emphasizes the fact that the differences in defining this notion go so far as to offer contradictory definitions. Namely, many authors have different approaches in setting the semantic framework of the notion of culture. The paper cites a large number of experts who have tried to define the notion of culture and who have elaborated on aspects of intercultural communication, such as Clifford Geertz, Cvetan Todorov, Talcott Parsons, Sigmund Freud, Claude Levi-Strauss, Yuri Lotman, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Noam Chomsky, Ivan Dzheparovski, Slavica Srbinovska and others. On this basis, we come to a general conclusion that the notion of culture is commonly associated with the following categories: a) language; b) nationality; c) ethnicity (ethnic affiliation); d) religion (religious affiliation). The main aim of the paper is to point to the theoretical research base on culture whose results can serve as literary-theoretical instruments for cultural analysis in the field of literature.
More...Keywords: metalanguage; literary text; stylistics; definition; denotative component; connotative component
The article deals with the interpretation of particular lexical items in the art text. The denotative and connotative components in the structure of intra-lexicographic article are analyzed from the perspective of the author’s creative intention. It is concluded the author’s way of lexicography organical supplement of the main content, enhancing the process and relaying the collective experience of native speaker, and thus expanding the boundaries of linguistic and cultural space of the text.
More...Keywords: David Hume; beauty; taste; standard of taste; aesthetics
The aim of this article is to investigate the main ideas of David Hume’s philosophical and aesthetical approaches and to stress that the significance of his interpretations of beauty and taste today are even more important then hundred years ago. This year (2011), celebrating 300 years from the birth of the philosopher (1711) it’s very important, once again, to point out that Hume’s essay “Of the Standard of Taste” today is a canonical text connected with the category of taste, and according to the opinions of the most important contemporary aestheticians (Beardsley, Shelley, Dickie), along with Kant’s third Critic, it is foundation work of the modern aesthetical theory.
More...Keywords: spatiatility; speciality; intercultured literature; town; house
Spatiatility in literature can be understood and conceived from many aspects. In this work I will try to represent the space as one of possible approaches to study of intercultured literature. Intercultured literature, whose name includes certain spatiatility, is suitable for researching of “intercultured“ authors and literatures where the space of their movements would be researched. As paradigm to this work two novels by Irfan Horozović will serve me and they are Pisaći stroj ručne izrade (1983) and Kalfa (1988). Those two novels with their inception (written in one town/country, and printed in other) include implicitly particular spatiatility and precisely because inception in some other, enable reading off the one. We will see how is so-called hybridity of this author read off with the help of towns (Banja Luka and Zagreb), and the house (attic and cellar). In his view, the town is the place of recognition of identity, and the house is the place of day dreaming and returning to past, native, maternally.
More...Keywords: interculturality; intercultural literary studies; translation studies; authorship in translation; act and process of translation; polisystem theory; system of translated literature; interliterary communities.
By asking the question of originality in translation i.e. authorship in translation, the article defines translation as the other original of which the translator is the author. The translation as the other original emerges from the original culture, breaks its ties with it and adds to its characteristic by adopting linguistic, literary and cultural features of the translation culture. In this way the translation stops being the fact of the original culture just as it never completely succeeds to become the fact of the translation culture. The translation thus exists in the space of affiliated non-affiliation, it starts a dialogue i.e. polilogue between the original and translation culture and becomes a fact of both cultures, which through translation get into contact, communicate and influence each other.
More...Keywords: The Ottoman Empire; Macedonia; Thessalonica; reform efforts; health; health care/system; forigen reports.
Health care in a country is one of the important elements for preserving and improving people’s health and their living and working environment, and for protection of their living standards and social safety. A great thinker once said: “Society with poor and bad education and bad health system will always be poor”. The history of the health and medical culture in Macedonia including the social health and medical conditions in the 19th century has shown that pioneer steps in this respect were made and in Thessalonica at the time. This mostly applies to the mid-century when the Ottoman authorities started introducing the first laws on organization of health care. That step was only one amongst measures not only intended for protection of the Ottoman armies but the population in the Empire as well. In 19th century epidemic of the plague in the Thessalonica had destructive effect upon of the people in the city. The issue of the taking care ill was part of the positive measures for the prevention of the infectious diseases.
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