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My Silesia, before becoming a widely-branched, lush tree, grew very slowly, as it was in the habit of trees. Maybe it is better, because if it grew faster, I would probably know less about it than I know today.
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My Silesia, before becoming a widely-branched, lush tree, grew very slowly, as it was in the habit of trees. Maybe it is better, because if it grew faster, I would probably know less about it than I know today.
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In November 2007, in the “Dialog” monthly, in a column entitled Radość z odzyskanego hasioka (the joy of reclaimed trash can), I wrote: “Throughout my life I could not overcome the irrational resistance, and start speaking German. In my childhood, everything that was German was cursed, banned, terrible, both at home and at school”.
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These questions were never my questions. They did not bother me, they were not needed for any self-identification. “Do I feel Silesian? To what extent do I feel like Silesian? What Silesian do I feel like?”
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Three wonderful women have had a great impact on my life: Professor Zofia Ostrowska-Kębłowska, the supervisor of my MA thesis at the Department of Art History at the University of Wrocław, Professor Ewa Chojecka: great art historian, creator of the Department of Art History at the University of Silesia, and Anda Rottenberg, with whom for years we shared the director’s position of the Warsaw Zachęta gallery.
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I recognized the incomprehensible world of adults. Few years earlier, several kilometers east of Auschwitz, was the border of the General Government.
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Where are the boundaries of church structures? They have changed. Not for the first time.
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For centuries, the eastern border of Silesia was one of the most stable in Europe. From the Middle Ages to the early 20th century it almost never changed.
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It disappeared from the map long ago, but it is still visible in the landscape. Not much left of her in the minds and heads, especially of young people.
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Is there any chance that Silesian-Zagłębie aversion will go back to the past? That former boundaries will stop dividing people who are speaking the same language, having the same problems and common interests?
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What separates Upper Silesia from Zagłębie? Is it only Brynica which has not been a state border for over a century?
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The Poet climbed the hillside with the ruins of the Gryf castle which reminds us of the Schaffgotsch family, meritorious for the development of the whole region.
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The path of the director Erich von Stroheim led from the imperial Vienna, though its roots were reaching the Prussian Silesia from the mid-nineteenth century.
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Bruno Schmialk’s works were included in the famous Degenerate Art Exhibition in 1937.
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In Recklinghausen, the city located in the northern part of the Ruhr district, the Jerke Museum was opened.
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When I think of “Polish recovered territories”, a good old Bergman film comes to my mind – The Silence.
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Celadon sky over the Saint Stephen church. Heavenly Mother of Bogucice is waiting for the May Devotion.
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Although not an anti-rationalist, Hayek established his discourse against constructivist rationalism. He distinguished between two kinds of rationalism: evolutionary rationalism and constructive rationalism. Hayekian epistemology emphasised the interest in evolutionary rationalism by criticizing the constructive rationalism. Evolutionary rationalism (or British tradition) is based on the interpretation of traditions and institutions that have spontaneously developed. Meanwhile, constructive rationalism, which emerged in France, is known as French tradition. Constructivist rationalism has aimed at constructing a utopia according to some assumptions about the unlimited powers of human reason. Hayek’s economic and political thoughts are part of or a prolongation of this epistemology. In parallel with this epistemology, the political structure proposed by Hayek is a limited state and the restriction of any power. We aim to explain the relationship between Hayek’s important key concepts—namely, anti-constructivism and spontaneous order. Hayek’s main thesis is that even a small intervention in spontaneous order, such as free market or great society through planning (or anything else), might lead to the destruction of freedom. In addition, Hayek established his theory against a welfare state containing the concept of planning. His emphasis has been reflected as a defence of the free market concept and the critics of planning or interfering in the state. According to Hayek, political power or the state behaves according to the rules.
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Globalization as both a social and a historical phenomenon is undoubtedly manifested as one of the determinants of the axiological crisis. The positive and negative consequences of globalization in the axiological realm certainly exist, and reflection on them and their connection with the education of modern man is needed. Knowledge of values must be one of the foundations of education for the members of modern globalizing societies. The acquisition of the axiological competence by the student is, however, multi-step. Different stages of education, for various reasons, are sometimes too short. The student may feel alienated and treated objectively. To effect this can be to take away from certain values such as constancy, sense of security, sense of community and others. These are typical threats in globalizing societies, which must be countered. Education plays an indispensable positive role in defining what, on the basis of what values, shape the future of humanity and the world that it creates.
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