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Our article is an attempt to compare opinions on the causes of the global economic crisis of 1929–1934, as well as to express the ethical consequences that result from the comparison of opinions. First of all, we tried to present several intellectual responses to the causes of the crisis, as well as their evaluation. We were most interested in those authors who either consider the corrective interventions...
In November 1958, Michel Foucault arrived in Poland and became the first director of the French Cultural Centre at the University of Warsaw. He spent less than a year in Warsaw. Beside his work at the Centre and interactions with the world of culture and science, Foucault was also meeting boys. With some he was just friends, with others he was involved emotionally and erotically. Foucault had a particular...
The author discusses the history of the media and their functions. Then he examines the ethical aspects of their operation. Finally, he wonders what factors should create modern media and a modern journalist.
A language plays a significant role in our lives. It has emerged from the need to communicate, and express feelings, experiences, moods, judg- ments, opinions, convictions. It constitutes an inseparable element of our lives. It is a means of communication, something without which neither the world nor the society would not be able to function. It constitutes, maybe due to its such an important role,...
Sigmund Freud is considered revolutionary in the field of women's sexuality. His findings, resulting in part from frequent contact with patients, some of the assumptions of theoretical and too bold, strongly influenced the evolution of twentieth-century and contemporary attitudes toward women, both in terms of their sexuality, and everyday life. We can say that thanks to his research women as a topic...
Gradiva is equivalent of love, an image of love, one which is not only an element of imagination, but also enters into what is real. In other words: the image becomes the reali- ty for a moment. Perversion finds its place. The only possible love, says Barthes, is the impossible love. When someone loved is not available but exists as an image and as the image can last forever. The love-desire is always...
Remigiusz Ryziński The Other and The text. A Mystery The problem of the Other has fascinated philosophers since the beginnings of culture and has manifested itself in a number of human creative and artistic activities. Transgressing Cartesian cogito we head towards the Other. Merleau-Ponty points to the coincidence of the I-Other relation and tries to initiate a particular way of thinking of the Other...
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