CAUGHT BETWEEN BREADWINNING AND EMOTIONAL PROVISIONS: THE CASE OF POLISH MIGRANT FATHERS IN NORWAY

Author(s): Paulina Pustułka,Justyna Struzik,Magdalena Ślusarczyk / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

This article discusses heterogeneity of family and parental practices among Polish migrant fathers in Norway. The paper begins with a recollection of the contemporary approaches to masculinities, and addresses the emergence of “new fatherhood” in both family scholarship and migration studies. In the conclusion to the theoretical section, we re ect on transnational parenting in the context of male mobility. The empirical basis for the study stems from a combination of biographic and narrative interviews with members of Polish migrant families in Norway: ten Polish couples and two interviews conducted with fathers alone (the interviews were reviewed for this article from the broader research dedicated to the Polish families in Norway). In the analysis, we draw on the signi cance of the institutional support and social expectations for creating new patterns of being a father, yet we also underline the salient importance of individual, biographical elements that certainly in uence the every-day practices of Polish migrant fathers. We put forward a general conclusion that there is not a singular fathering or fatherhood type among the Polish men in Norway, but rather a continuum of vari- ous family arrangements, often propelled by men, is observed. It is therefore crucial to look at the biographies which suggest social change and a shift towards a “new fatherhood”.

Creative technologies entrapped by instrumental mind

Author(s): Saulius Kanišauskas / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The paper poses a question why creative processes are more and more often related to technologies and that is clearly visible in institutionalized scientific, cultural and political discourses. It is noteworthy that technologies, creative technologies including, are becoming instrumental mind-based methods, which aim to perform everything more efficiently, more economically and more advantageously. This way creative activity loses its essence and becomes a commodity easily defined in economic categories, and thus it is employed as an effective means used to control, influence and even manipulate the human consciousness. It is likely that modern technologies push everything that is essential to human life to periphery, everything that joins people for shared activities and has intrinsic values. The paper attempts to show that even the so-called “scientific axiology” based on formal social technologies is unable to deal with axiological problems of creative human essence if personal or subject-related intrinsic values are not taken into account. This way it is most likely to happen that such evaluation which emphasizes individual and unique emotional and spiritual human reality tends to be downplayed. This fact corroborates intuitive understanding that technologies employed in creative activities should serve only as a supplementary tool but not become a self-contained tool which overshadows transcendental human creative powers.

Obcy i bliski. Bliski i obcy

Author(s): Jerzy Illg / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

I am not a Silesian, but from my earliest childhood I had lived in Silesia for several decades. In fact, things related to the region were not and still are not irrelevant to me. I graduated from the University of Silesia and worked at this university until the martial law imposition. When in 1982 I was expelled from the university with a wolf ticket, the Cracow environment of “Tygodnik Powszechny” and “Znak” helped me. There I happily found a safe haven.

ТРАНСЦЕНДЕНТНАЯ ФИЛОСОФИЯ МУЛЛЫ САДРЫ И ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ ЭТИКА

Author(s): Mohsen Shiravand / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2014

This paper describes the philosophical system of the transcendental wisdom of Mulla Sadra. His theory proposes the principality of existence and its individual unity, which justifies the multiplicity of the Universe and the hierarchy of existence. The authors show the possibility to substantiate environmental ethics by the philosophical system of Mulla Sadra, since his understanding of existence as an indivisible unity implies the strategy of non-interference in the life of Nature as a manifestation of God.

Zepchnięci na drugi plan

Author(s): Krzyszof Karwat / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

Krzysztof Karwat in conversation with Krzysztof Ruchniewicz

„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.

BOOK REVIEW. CRISTINA GAVRILUȚĂ, THE NEGATIVE OF THE DAILY,”ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA” UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING HOUSE, IAȘI, 2017

Author(s): Irinel Rotariu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

THE INFLUENCE OF THE ANIME CULTURE ON THE CONSUMER BEHAVIOR

Author(s): Adrian Nicolae Cazacu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Presenting the impact of manga and anime products in the current economical environment, this article reviews the state of knowledge in the field and aims to highlight the appropriate market segment.The importance of the anime culture for the economy and the ability of the comic image to overcome the cultural barriers are the two goals that we want to highlight here. Consequently, the need for the optimal strategies, to promote the manga and anime products on the Romanian market.An example of this is the Nijikon Convention, one of the biggest media event of "pop culture" in Romania.

Black holes: do they exist?

Author(s): Edward Malec / Language(s): English Issue: 65/2018

Black holes entered scientific literature as early as at the end of eighteenth century. They had been known at that time as dark stars, but their concept did not find its way to physics or astronomy, and had been abandoned for more than one hundred years. I shall sketch historical developments and discuss present mathematical and observational status of black holes.

Sascha Salatowsky o filozofii socynian i Kęstutis Daugirdas o początkach socynianizmu

Author(s): Steffen Huber / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

Страници из... Гергана Динева "Раждането на личността" (София: УИ „Св. Климент Охридски“, 2018)

Author(s): Gergana Dineva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2018

Science fiction: źródła i kontynuacje

Author(s): Paweł Frelik,Lisa Swanstrom,Paul Kincaid,Krzysztof M. Maj,Mateusz Tokarski,Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk,Sherryl Vint / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2018

A discussion addresses general problems associated with studying science fiction narratives today. What does it take to make a believable illusion of the scientific out of literary fiction? What are the most contemporary views on the genre and its multiple iterations? Is it still a genre? These and many more questions have been tackled below by the leading experts in science fiction studies: Paweł Frelik (University of Warsaw), the most prominent Polish theorist in the field, editor of the „Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds”, and author of Visual Cultures of Science Fiction (2017, reviewed in this issue), as well as the first Polish president of Science Fiction Research Association (2013-2014); Paul Kincaid, renowned science fiction critic, author of A Very British Genre: A Short History of British Fantasy and Science Fiction (1995) and What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction (2000); Lisa Swanstrom (University of Utah), co-editor of „Science Fiction Studies”, and author of Animal, Vegetable, Digital: Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics (2016); Sherryl Vint (University of Alberta), also co-editor of „Science Fiction Studies”, director of Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies at University of California, Riverside, and co-editor of The Routlege Companion to Science Fiction (2009); and, finally, „Creatio Fantastica” editors—Krzysztof M. Maj, Mateusz Tokarski, and Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk.

Enchanted object: Indian sari, negotiating the online and the offline space

Author(s): Seema Khanwalkar / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

This paper is an attempt to understand the intersections between the internet, global cultures and technology, and the material object, the Indian sari. The Indian Sari, like other ethnic clothing, has always acted as a means of affirming position and agency for Indian women. Even today it is a significant part of the communicative grammar for its offline avatar. But its online presence makes this garment even more discursive. Typically online communities, in linguistic terms, are ‘cultural communities’ (paradigmatic) where knowledge is shared to deepen expertise, and offline communities are ‘communities of practice’ (s yntagmatic) where people share concerns, passions, and problems to deepen interaction. But as Umberto Eco says, more and more paradigmatic communities are becoming syntagmatic, and the Indian Sari is in an interesting intersection of offline and online contexts as the wearer, the garment, and the transactions all create discursive spaces that implicate the global and local in identity formations. It also forces us to relocate the Sari as a signifier and reexamine its materiality in relation to its floating presence

Мисията на свободните изкуства: една възможна интерпретация

Author(s): Oleg Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 25/2019

In this paper, I am questioning the opinion that the Liberal Arts are traditionally perceived as a necessary instrument for “shaping culture”. In this context, it is not by accident that in the last two centuries one of the widespread ideas is to link the development of the Liberal Arts with the concept of culture itself. This view clears the path for the interpretation of egkuklios paidea (Εγκύκλιος Παιδεία) as a common culture, which pre-empts the authentic notion of culture. It prompts the development of a point of view on Liberal Arts, which presents them as part of a self-legislating and self-deploying process known as ‘culture’. In my view, though, a different philosophical analysis of the Liberal Arts reveals that during the Antiquity they primarily assisted the individual in contemplating the structure of being and partially in developing a specific mode of knowledge – phronesis, i.e. practical rationality. Practical rationality is both a way and a condition for personal achievement of moral virtues and personal improvement, rather than some sort of a cultural integration. It is therefore of significant importance to open the possibility for examining phronesis as ground for objective interpretation of the Ancient philosophical ethical and political consciousness.

Aquinas’ evaluation of the assertion „quantum intendis, tantum facis“ as relevant to sinful actions

Author(s): Lingchang Gui / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2019

The criticism against the absolute validity of the assertion quantum intendis, tantum facis is an integral component of Aquinas’ doctrine of moral intention. This paper aims to investigate this criticism within the domain of sinful actions according to Aquinas’ division of sins. The quantum-tantum assertion is only valid regarding the mortal sins directly against God, which do not involve any effect of sensual suffering according to their species, whereas these kinds of sins cannot bear any degree of gravity: the loss of the connection with God is radical. Meanwhile, the mortal sins with sensual suffering as effect and the venial sins as the corresponding imperfect form do not follow the assertion and possess varied degrees of gravity: their sinful gravity depends not only on the intentional action, but on the corresponding realization. The fact that, among sins, the validity of the quantum-tantum assertion varies because of the sins’ relation to sensual effect indicates that sinful action, with or without a sensual effect, is involved in the species of sinful acts.

The will to think. Peter Olivi and the role of the will in intellectual process

Author(s): Simeon Mladenov / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2019

The current text tries to explore possible connections between will and intellectual process in the context of the work of Peter John Olivi. Olivi presents the will in an innovative light, which provides the basis for later authors such as John Duns Scotus or William of Ockham. Olivi’s claim is that the will is a totally active power, which is the first mover of the soul and its other powers. The self-evidential freedom that the will possesses makes it responsible furthermore for its own self-reflexivity. Olivi goes even further to claim that the reflexivity of the rest of the soul’s powers depends on the self-reflexivity of the will. Based on this, the paper traces different passages, in which Olivi speaks about the free control, which we can observe having in our thoughts – freedom in terms of judgment, discerning, choosing an object for our knowledge, etc. Important for this discussion is Olivi’s understanding of intentionality and more particularly his concept of “aspectus”. The intellectual-volitional acts stand in the context of a broader intentional directedness of the human being towards the outside world. We would like to trace in what way this intentional directedness might be freely controlled from the will, so that different epistemological processes could be enabled to take place.

Защо Творецът играе на зарове или за връзката между синхронната контингентност и изкуството

Author(s): Gergana Dineva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 25/2019

This paper aims to be a discussion-opener. It is making a statement that should be examined further about the very plausible connection between the contemporary crisis in aesthetics as a philosophical discipline and the breaking of the philosophical relation between the idea of contingency as a condition for the human autonomous act and the art. This idea is based on the interrelation between the free will and the dignity of the person, as understood within the metaphysics of ens morale, and the value of any creative act.As an introductory demonstration of this interrelation, we propose the short but important elaboration on what is an act of art by Francisco Suárez in his De bonitate et malitia humanorum actuum (sect. 1, n. 17.). There we see that the value of the act of art acquires a double significance – on the one hand, the designation of an object as a work of art depends entirely on the conscious autonomous intention of the artist to create it, and on the other hand – the evaluation of each object of art depends on the knowledge and the will invested uniquely by the author in this particular object as a result of a unique creative act. In order to clarify the context of Suárez’ view, we also explicate the essence of the synchronic contingency, developed earlier by John Duns Scotus.

The Pseudo-Dionysian Influence in Dante’s „Divine Comedy“.

Author(s): Boris Chupetlovky / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2019

This paper attempts to follow the impact of the Pseudo-Dionysian corpus in “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri. The aim of the text is to examine the theological aspects of the Comedy in order to put a spotlight on the equal understanding of the two authors about the mystical experience as an assimilation to the Divine likeness. For that reason, the attention is drawn not only to the directly perceived Dionysian angelology, but also to the conception of hierarchy in general, the presence of light and the approach of describing the indescribable.

Частите на душата и богопознанието в моралната драма „Премъдрост“ (Ум, Воля и Разбиране или Премъдростта, която е Христос)

Author(s): Slava Yanakieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 25/2019

Enumerating the parts of the soul could hardly be an object of leisure-time activity and it is only in themedieval presentative culture that we could find it as naturally integrated topos of a dramatic text. Thisseemingly paradoxical situation loses almost all of its mysterious aura in dramatic genres like theconventional for fifteenth-century England “drama of moral instruction”, which is by definitionnonrealistic in form and religiously utilized by content. The focus of this article is the famous drama ofWisdom Who is Christ from the Macro MS and specifically its first part which concerns the introductoryexposition of the “structure” of the soul, the latter being a central character of the play. While the themeof the parts of the soul are not new to premodern philosophy and theology, it is the way this topic isinternalized in the new devotional trends of the time that makes the analysis of the text and its dramaticpotential so fruitful. This analysis is all the more crucial for the understanding of the play as most of theaction is delegated only to parts of the soul as “representatives” of the protagonist and carriers of themechanics of the stage salvation. Important works of contemporary laical devotional and contemplativeliterature are considered in terms of their influence on the dramatic piece considered.

Philosophical Understanding of Noohumanism Genesis as Basis for the Formation of Pedagogical Concept of Forming Noohumanistic – Oriented Worldview

Author(s): Raushan Shindaulova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2014

Responding to the challenges of our time: the global environmental, geopolitical and spiritual crises, conflicts on religious and ethnic grounds, etc., the modern system of higher education is associated with finding new worldview orientations aimed at balanced relationship in the «man-society-nature» and the formation of the individual, freely oriented in a multicultural world, respected spiritual, moral, environmental and humanistic values . Modern educational paradigm based on co-evolutionary, humanistic strategies, including foundations such as the humanization, fundamentalization of education, ecologization of consciousness, etc., has a huge potential for resolving the crisis initiated by collisions worldview of modern consumer-oriented community. We need new ideas, approaches, concepts, based on the creative integration of certain provisions of the scientific theories of society and nature, which would create the life-affirming meanings, values based on homeostatic settlement of socio-nature systems. In this regard, educational theory and practice contains real prerequisites for the formation of a new direction in pedagogy - noohumanistic, which is giving the possibility of forming noohumanistic -oriented worldview.