scholarly journals Od odrzucenia ironii ku jej afirmacji. Dorota Masłowska w poszukiwaniu „my” [From rejection to praise of irony. Dorota Masłowska in her search of “we”]

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-50
Author(s):  
Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez

From rejection to praise of irony. Dorota Masłowska in her search of “we”The adventures of Dorota Masłowska, experienced between her novels Snow White and Russian Red and Honey, I Killed Our Cats, show a world where capitalism is the only way of organising reality. At the same time, it is a power affecting all types of relations: among people and between people and the world. The motif connecting Masłowska’s novels is the pursuit – through one’s writing – of liberation from the tools of the capitalist rule recorded and reinforced in the language. Attempts at comprehending this rule, undertaken always as an element of a writer’s ethos, are an extremely interesting path from destruction to praising conservatism and from combat for yourself (as defined by Hallward) – as an expression of a specific configuration of reality – to the singularity of a writer’s absolute. Taking this path requires a change to the use of two literary categories: grotesque and irony which remain Masłowska’s trademarks. At the same time, in her subsequent books grotesque and irony bring a new angle to her polyphonic writing. The author analyses the evolution of Masłowska’s writing making a (critical) use of the tools of postcolonial theory. She refers to the notions of “singular” and “specific” as used by Peter Hallward in his Absolutely Postcolonial. Writing between Singular and the Specific (2001). In his dissertation, Hallward presents two trends; a description thereof allows him for “the global and contemporary discrimination of fundamental approaches to our general conceptions of agency and context, self and other, politics and particularity.” Snochowska-Gonzalez refers Hallward’s categories to the subject of interest of the postcolonial theory (like freshly located and de-territorialisation, national determination and freedom from it). She develops the method of applying analytical tools presented in her article “Od melancholii do rozpaczy. O prozie Andrzeja Stasiuka” published in Studia Litteraria et Historica, no. 2 (2013).Od odrzucenia ironii ku jej afirmacji. Dorota Masłowska w poszukiwaniu „my” Przygody Doroty Masłowskiej, przeżywane na drodze od Wojny polsko-ruskiej pod flagą biało-czerwoną do Kochanie, zabiłam nasze koty, pokazują świat, w którym kapitalizm jest jedynym dostępnym sposobem organizowania rzeczywistości, a jednocześnie siłą, która nadaje kształt wszelkim relacjom – między ludźmi nawzajem i między ludźmi i światem. Nić łącząca powieści Masłowskiej to dążenie do wyzwolenia się – przez własną praktykę pisarską – od zapisanych i umocnionych w języku narzędzi kapitalistycznego panowania. Próby odnalezienia się wobec tego panowania, podejmowane zawsze jako element pisarskiego etosu, są niezwykle ciekawą drogą od burzycielstwa do pochwały konserwatyzmu i od walki o siebie samą, rozumianej po Hallwardowsku jako wyraz konkretnej konfiguracji rzeczywistości, do osobliwości pisarskiego absolutu. Przebycie tej drogi wymaga zmiany w użyciu dwóch kategorii literackich: groteski i ironii, które wciąż pozostają znakiem rozpoznawczym warsztatu Masłowskiej, a jednocześnie nadają – w kolejnych jej książkach – inny ton jej polifonicznemu pisarstwu.Autorka analizuje przemiany, jakim podlega pisarstwo Masłowskiej, przy (krytycznym) użyciu narzędzi teorii postkolonialnej. Wykorzystywane w tekście terminy „osobliwy” i „konkretny” (singular i specific) odwołują się do rozprawy Petera Hallwarda Absolutely Postcolonial. Writing between Singular and the Specific (2001). Hallward przedstawia w niej dwie tendencje, których opisanie pozwala mu na „całościowe i współczesne rozróżnienie zasadniczych ujęć ogólnych koncepcji sprawstwa i kontekstu, koncepcji ‘ja’ i ‘innego’, polityki i partykularności”. Snochowska-Gonzalez proponuje odniesienie kategorii Hallwarda do tematyki poruszanej przez teorię postkolonialną (takich jak zlokalizowanie i deterytorializacja, narodowe zdeterminowanie i wolność od niego). Autorka rozwija w tekście metodę zastosowania narzędzi analitycznych, przedstawioną w artykule Od melancholii do rozpaczy. O prozie Andrzeja Stasiuka, opublikowanym w piśmie „Studia Litteraria et Historica”, nr 2 (2013).

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.V. Loginova

В статье дан анализ проблемы границы в актуальном контексте формирования категориального аппарата культурологии. Материал исследования работы М.М. Бахтина, В.В. Кандинского, М. Хайдеггера, в которых граница анализируется с философских позиций. Автор понимает границу как смысловую единицу паракатегорию (В.В.Бычков), фиксирующую изменчивость современной культуры. Определение границы как становящейся паракатегории позволяет выделить ее специфические моменты: пространственность (граница место-топос соприкосновения мира и человека) антиномичность (разделение/объединение Своего и Другого, Я и Не-Я, внутреннего и внешнего, чуждости и близости) ценностную доминанту (интенциональная напряженность выражения границы как определенного смысла) функциональность, определяющую ее смысловое разнообразие в зависимости от культурного контекста антропологизм в понимании человеком своего места в мире, в котором современное искусство находит новые формы мировосприятия и способы выражения.The article analyzes the problem of the border in the modern philosophical and cultural context. The main feature of the 21st-century culture is its being in the field of formation, processuality. Consequently, the explanation of the meaning of modern culture is impossible without defining its categorical apparatus, which is formed in the comprehension of relevant art processes and, therefore, is also in formation. Studying the processes of the meaning-making of culture and the formation of its conceptual field are among the urgent tasks for cultural studies, emphasizing thereby the significance of the border problem for researchers. The research material is works by M.M. Bakhtin, V.V. Kandinsky, M. Heidegger, in which the border is analyzed from philosophical positions in various aspects of its problems. The use of ontological, dialectical, axiological, dialogical, philosophical, anthropological, historical and culturological methodological approaches in the course of the study contributed to the formation of the theoretical understanding of the essence of the border, as well as its specific features. The author understands the border as a semantic unit, paracategory (V.V. Bychkov), which fixes the changing existence of modern culture. In the research, the border is considered as a forming paracategory which gravitates to the substantiation of its categorical status and is actively used in the humanitarian knowledge of the 20th21st centuries. The established definition of the border made it possible to single out a number of specific points, such as: spatiality (the border as a place/topos of contact between the world and man) antinomicity (separation/unification) of self and other, me and not-me, internal and external, alien and close) value dominant (intentional tension of expressing the border as a definite meaning) functionality (the semantic diversity of the border is determined depending on the cultural context) anthropologism in mans understanding of their place in the world, in which contemporary art finds new forms of perception of the world and the corresponding ways of expression. As a result, the author draws the conclusion about the emerging nature of the border as an ontological category, which, no doubt, is relevant for the analysis of modern culture. The border as an inseparably divisible basis for the design of cultural being in its various forms (art, philosophy, religion, etc.), in essence, becomes the subject of a search for meanings, since a modern person perceives the extremeness of their existence in an emotionally sensitive way, as a certain intentional tension.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Magda Karkowska

The main purpose of the author of the article is to analyze the way in which COVID-19 content in the media influences the shaping of the identity of their recipients. I ask whether they fulfill their functions properly, being by definition a place of constructing experiences, sensations and opinions of people. What vision of the world appears after reading the materials, the subject of which are social changes caused by the epidemic situation? In search of answers to these questions I apply such analytical tools like functions and models of identity. I present a thesis about the violation of the developmental idea of the individual’s assimilation with culture, as well as the violation of the integrity of the psyche in relation to three approaches to identity: sociological, psychological, and philosophical, illustrating the analysis with examples taken from the media in the period from March 20 to April 25, 2020.


Daphnis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 235-249
Author(s):  
Michael Schwingenschlögl

Abstract This article surveys various efforts made to explore the origins of the movement of Empfindsamkeit (sentimentalism) by emphasizing the role of natural law theories formed around 1700. The view of sentiment in Tugendempfindsame Literatur matches the anthropology of natural law theories that saw man’s proper state in an equillibrium of self- and other-oriented relations to the world. Conceptions of Geselligkeit connect natural law and Empfindsamkeit. Comparing different understandings of Empfindsamkeit, it may be concluded that a future multifaceted look at the roots of Empfindsamkeit that integrates seemingly opposing perspectives on the subject is both possible and appropriate.


2016 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Pier Giuseppe Rossi

The subject of alignment is not new to the world of education. Today however, it has come to mean different things and to have a heuristic value in education according to research in different areas, not least for neuroscience, and to attention to skills and to the alternation framework.This paper, after looking at the classic references that already attributed an important role to alignment in education processes, looks at the strategic role of alignment in the current context, outlining the shared construction processes and focusing on some of the ways in which this is put into effect.Alignment is part of a participatory, enactive approach that gives a central role to the interaction between teaching and learning, avoiding the limits of behaviourism, which has a greater bias towards teaching, and cognitivism/constructivism, which focus their attention on learning and in any case, on that which separates a teacher preparing the environment and a student working in it.


Author(s):  
Emma Simone

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.


Author(s):  
Sharon Hecker

Medardo Rosso (1858–1928) is one of the most original and influential figures in the history of modern art, and this book is the first historically substantiated critical account of his life and work. An innovative sculptor, photographer, and draftsman, Rosso was vital in paving the way for the transition from the academic forms of sculpture that persisted in the nineteenth century to the development of new and experimental forms in the twentieth century. His antimonumental, antiheroic work reflected alienation in the modern experience yet showed deep feeling for interactions between self and other. Rosso's art was transnational: he refused allegiance to a single culture or artistic heritage and declared himself both a citizen of the world and a maker of art without national limits. This book develops a narrative that is an alternative to the dominant Franco-centered perspective on the origin of modern sculpture in which Rodin plays the role of lone heroic innovator. Offering an original way to comprehend Rosso, the book negotiates the competing cultural imperatives of nationalism and internationalism that shaped the European art world at the fin de siècle.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Syarifudin Syarifudin

Each religious sect has its own characteristics, whether fundamental, radical, or religious. One of them is Insan Al-Kamil Congregation, which is in Cijati, South Cikareo Village, Wado District, Sumedang Regency. This congregation is Sufism with the concept of self-purification as the subject of its teachings. So, the purpose of this study is to reveal how the origin of Insan Al-Kamil Congregation, the concept of its purification, and the procedures of achieving its purification. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method with a normative theological approach as the blade of analysis. In addition, the data generated is the result of observation, interviews, and document studies. From the collected data, Jamaah Insan Al-Kamil adheres to the core teachings of Islam and is the tenth regeneration of Islam Teachings, which refers to the Prophet Muhammad SAW. According to this congregation, self-perfection becomes an obligation that must be achieved by human beings in order to remember Allah when life is done. The process of self-purification is done when human beings still live in the world by knowing His God. Therefore, the peak of self-purification is called Insan Kamil. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Feruza Mamatova ◽  

The present paper aims to compare the principles of choosing a marriage partner and analyse the status of being in the marrriage in the frame of family traditions that are totally inherent to the both of the nations: English and Uzbek. It is known that interconnection and cross-cultural communication between the countries of these two nationalities have been recently developed. The purpose to give an idea about these types of family traditions and prevent any misunderstanding that might occur in the communications makes our investigation topical one. The research used phraseological units as an object and the marriage aspects as the subject


2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-245
Author(s):  
Erik Ode

Abstract De-Finition. Poststructuralist Objections to the Limitation of the Other The metaphysic tradition always tried to structure the world by definitions and scientific terms. Since poststructuralist authors like Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze have claimed the ›death of the subject‹ educational research cannot ignore the critical objections to its own methods. Definitions and identifications may be a violation of the other’s right to stay different and undefined. This article tries to discuss the scientific limitations of the other in a pedagogical, ethical and political perspective.


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