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Reviews / A Culturological View on the Artistic Parameters of the Serbian National Idea
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Unpaid Work in Slovak Households – Research, Results and Correlations. The presented article focuses on the work, namely on the unpaid work in the household. The unpaid work in this form represents relatively new topic. Work as a fundamental inseparable and for many people also the self-evident part of their lives stands for multidimensional phenomenon and therefore it has been a subject of interest of several scientific disciplines. Under influence of globalization especially of modernisation the work changes all the time and it is necessary to catch and interpret its newest processes of change, its new shapes, prosuppositions and sequelae. The interdisciplinary approach is applied where there also the sociology has its place. The contribution offers a cross-sectional view on the research of the unpaid work in Slovak republic. It presents the most important results concerning the volume and structure of unpaid work and its predetermined share on GNP and at the same time it offers suggestive international comparison of this phenomenon. Except of the economic dimensions the autors identify also the crucial non-economic determinants of the unpaid work occurence in the Slovak households in the form of motives and attitudes of family members. The force and social value of this motives and attitudes influence another factors of the occurence and duration of the unpaid work. Sociológia 2015, Vol. 47 (No. 5: 474-503)
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Women in Local Politics in the EU: Discussion on Implementation of Gender Quotas in Different Local Government Systems. Gender issue became a hot political issue just few decades ago. Although several interesting measures aimed at increase of the women's political representativeness have been introduced in the European countries, their outcomes vary a lot. A main objective of this article is to analyze as well as discuss both introductions of gender quotas in different local government systems and impacts of these quotas. For the analytical purposes, I deal with the relevant legal provisions. In addition, selected electoral results are taken into consideration too. Sociológia 2015, Vol. 47 (No. 5: 504-526)
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The title of the article is a cluster of various plays on words which build up an allusion to classic texts and “situations” that should sound familiar to most humanists. The title suggests that cogito is not an epistemological post of certitude but it has its “whereabouts” – so its axiological and discursive character cannot be pinned down and endowed with an ultimate sense of some kind. Consequently, the dynamic and perhaps furtive nature of cogito is tainted by the author’s (Descartes’s) megalomania or, to put it bluntly, the philosopher’s arrogant claim of his being able to access objective truth and authoritatively define the firm fundament of all knowledge. The article shows that this aspiration cannot be fulfilled (hence the titular melancholy, a word alluding to both Derrida and Levi-Strauss) and that it has been the nature of grand philosophical projects to get embroiled in complex semantic, conceptual, stylistic, textual trouble spots.
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Using as a springboard an essay by Agata Bielik-Robson in which she criticizes the recent revival of the connection between Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis as the reincarnation of deadly rhetoric (fanatic and fantasmatic) and opposes it to the origins of liberalist discourse as the modern language of pure vitalist energy, the text tries to show that such an ecstatic interpretation of liberalism is precisely the fantasmatic counterpart of the drab and life-denying “the end of grand narratives” ruling ideology. It also attempts to show that the opposition between the supposed ideological adulation of death (Lacan) and life (liberalism) is not only based on erroneous understanding of crucial Lacanian concepts, but also on a questionable conceptualization of the notion of life itself.
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