Over the past 15 years, the project of advanced European integration has followed a complex secular and cosmopolitan agenda. As that agenda has evolved, however, so have various hard-line populist ...movements with goals diametrically opposed to the ideals of a harmonious European Union. Spearheaded by figures such as Jean-Marie Le Pen, the controversial leader of France's National Front party, these radical movements have become increasingly influential and, because of their philosophical affinities with fascism and national socialism--politically worrisome.
InIntegral Europe,anthropologist Douglas Holmes posits that such movements are philosophically rooted in integralism, a sensibility that, in its most benign form, enables people to maintain their ethnic identity and solidarity within the context of an increasingly pluralistic society. Taken to irrational extremes by people like Le Pen, integralism is being used to inflame people's feelings of alienation and powerlessness, the by-products of impersonal, transnational "fast-capitalism." The consequences are an invidious politics of exclusion that spawns cultural nationalism, racism, and social disorder.
The analysis moves from northern Italy to Strasbourg and Brussels, the two venues of the European Parliament, and finally to the East End of London. This multi-sited ethnography provides critical perspective on integralism as a form of intimate cultural practice and a violent idiom of estrangement. It combines a wide-ranging review of modern and historical scholarship with two years of field research that included personal interviews with right-wing activists, among them Le Pen and neo-Nazis in inner London. Fascinating, provocative, and sobering,Integral Europeoffers a rare inside look at one of modern Europe's most unsettling political trends.
In this work, the author presents a firm conviction that proper names are specific cultural signs in terms of both understanding the culture’s historically varying dynamics and character, as well as ...diverse contexts in which proper names occur at a given stage of sociocultural development. Such an approach gives rise to certain revaluations in the analytic methods employed and – in a broader sense – the very essence of proper names. More frequently and definitely, contemporary onomastics seems to depart from traditional – and often orthodox – approaches, not only in terms of methodology but also objectives that the researchers set.The monograph provides various takes on the opportunities that onomastics along with its diverse instruments gives us. It is, however, worth highlighting that onomastics is understood as a field of linguistics that has a long established position and yet is subject to ceaseless methodological revaluations. We ought to expect that opening the onomastic reflections to other methods and pointing to their inter- and transdisciplinary implications may provide us with interesting effects and become an inspiration for further research.The reflections gathered in this book have been assigned to issues that constitute five themes; these themes reflect the author’s interests concerning the proper names related issues.The first group encompasses the texts touching upon the general, theoretical, and synthesising issues; to specify, it encompasses the author’s proposals of approaching onomastic issues with regard to the achievements of contemporary linguistics. These approaches attempt to propose research paths widening the scope of current perspectives. The next part gathers the onomastic re-interpretations of literary works from previous epochs (mainly baroque, but also positivism and the 20th century). The third part is comprised of the texts that place onomastics in the context of gender studies, which seems to be a rare in Polish linguistics. The question of onomastic analyses of pop-cultural texts is yet another rarity. The fourth part is therefore devoted to this issue. The monograph ends with two texts functioning as a reconnaissance, concerned with chosen thematic problems in ideonymy and zoonymy (part five). They should be treated as sui generis elaboration of the main issues tackled in the book.The author has always endeavoured to put the observed onyms in a greater perspective; they are thus socioculturally contextualised, regardless of whether the observation includes theoretical issues or the empirical dimension of the onomastic analyses in specific texts and communicational spaces. The presented research proposals mainly concentrate upon possibilities of onomastic research as complementary to other domains of contemporary linguistics. What is valorised here are mainly various spaces of text linguistics, such as stylistics, linguistic genology, or discourse theory, but the author also turns to a field dear to him – historical linguistics. Therefore, a proper name here is always a sign that focuses – like a lens – tendencies and tropes of wider fields, that is, sociocultural spaces.
Dzięki rozwojowi mediów społecznościowych coraz popularniejsze staje się udostępnianie zdjęć, często w formie tzw. selfie. Zjawisko fotografowania samego siebie pojawiło się w instytucjach kultury, w ...tym także w muzeach. Placówki wypracowują różne strategie reagowania na fotografowanie się na tle eksponatów. W artykule dokonano analizy tych reakcji, a na ich podstawie wskazano zróżnicowane sposoby definiowania funkcji oraz roli współczesnego muzeum. Spróbowano także odpowiedzieć na pytanie, czy udostępnienie zdjęć przez zwiedzających jest elementem tworzenia ich własnego wizerunku (kultura narcyzmu), czy raczej interakcji z dziedzictwem, dialogu z prezentowanymi treściami (kultura remiksu).
Jedan od izazova s kojim se suočava kršćanska teologija, osobito iz svoje etičke perspektive, zasigurno je proces dekonstrukcije pojmova. Među takvim pojmovima spomenimo pojam kulture koja nije više ...shvaćena u svojoj izvornosti kao briga za stvorenje – uključujući i čovjeka. Rađa se tehnokratska kultura u kojoj čovjek prestaje biti subjekt tehnologije, a tehnologija prestaje biti moć u službi čovjeka, već postaje ključni činitelj antropološke i društvene preobrazbe. Razni znanstveno-kulturni pokreti preuzimaju glavnu ulogu i voditelji su procesa metamorfoze – kulturne i antropološke. Daleko od toga da treba suprotstaviti te dvije instancije – teologiju i tehnologiju, valja ići putem dijaloga i otkrivati na koji se način danas stvaranje nastavlja i u tehnološkoj kulturi te na koji način teologija može dati svoj doprinos tehnološkom razvoju kao novom obliku očitovanja kulture.
One of the challenges that Christian theology is faced with, especially from its ethical perspective, is certainly the process of deconstructing concepts. Among such concepts, let us mention the concept of culture that is no longer understood in its original meaning as care for the creature – including man. A technocratic culture is born in which man ceases to be a subject of technology, and technology ceases to be a power in the service of man but becomes a key factor in anthropological and social transformation. Various scientific and cultural movements take the leading role and lead the process of cultural and anthropological metamorphosis. Far from it that we should oppose these two instances – theology and technology, we are called to establish and promote dialogue and to discover how creation continues today in technological culture, and how theology can contribute to technological development as a new form of cultural expression.
Pedagoška istraživanja zagovaraju humanistički pristup koji promiče cjelovit razvoj pojedinca, stoga cilj školovanja nije samo stjecanje znanja, već uvažavanje njegovih interesa i potreba, gdje se uz ...intelektualne ističu i emocionalne značajke razvoja. Kako bi se razvijala učenička odgovornost, tolerancija, kritičko mišljenje, samostalnost i uspješno komuniciranje, neophodni su odgovorni i moralni učitelji, svjedoci vrijednosti. Profesionalno kompetentni učitelji trebaju biti svjesni implicitnih utjecaja unutar i izvan odgojno-obrazovne ustanove, koji utječu na kulturu škole i usvajanje temeljnih vrijednosti svih dionika. Danas je više nego ikad potrebno voditi se postavkama pedagogije djelotvorne ljubavi don Bosca, koji je odgajao vlastitim primjerom te utvrdio temelje preventivnoga sustava utemeljenoga na ljubavi prema učenicima.
Pedagogical research advocates a humanistic approach that promotes the holistic development of the individual, so the goal of education is not just the acquisition of knowledge, but respect for his interests and needs, where the intellectual and emotional features of development are equaly important. In order to develop students' responsibility, tolerance, critical thinking, independence, and successful communication, responsible, and moral teachers-witnesses to values are necessary. Professionally competent teachers should be aware of the implicit influences inside and outside the educational institution, which affect the culture of the school and the adoption of the core values of all stakeholders. Today, more than ever, it is necessary to be guided by the principles of the pedagogy of effective love, developed by don Bosco who by his own example educated children and established the foundations of a preventive system based on love for children.
Współczesne społeczeństwa coraz częściej przejawiają empatię oraz uczuciową wrażliwość wobec zwierząt. Transformacja tego typu rodzi potrzebę analizy sytuacji zwierząt i ich dobrostanu w kontekście ...życia człowieka, jego aktywności fizycznej i wykazywanej (bądź nie wykazywanej) empatii. W historii ludzkości zwierzęta były zawsze ważnymi towarzyszami człowieka, także w odniesieniu do wszelkich form aktywności poznawczej, jak również sportowej. Mając powyższe na uwadze celem niniejszego artykułu jest analiza historycznych uwarunkowań szeroko rozumianej aktywności człowieka z udziałem zwierząt. Tłem analiz uczyniono historię najsłynniejszej podróży, mającej miejsce w XIX wieku, której uczestnikiem był brytyjski przyrodnik i geolog Karol Darwin. Ekspedycja ta jest nośnikiem wielu komunikatów oraz sprawozdań na temat człowieczeństwa, aktywności fizycznej, jak również naszej ludzkiej wrażliwości. Jest to także potężny zasób wiedzy, który może pomóc nam odpowiedzieć na pytanie badawcze o to, na ile obecnie w czasach rozwoju wiedzy z zakresu inteligencji, emocji oraz zachowań społecznych, stosownym jest wykorzystywanie zwierząt do psycho-fizycznego rozwoju ludzi. Rozpoznanie tego typu niesie ze sobą cały bagaż informacji i wskazówek o tym, co nam jako ludziom przynosi chlubę, co nas dyskredytuje, a co może stanowić inspirację uwzględniając nasze dzisiejsze możliwości.
Modern societies are increasingly displaying empathy and affectionate sensitivity toward animals. This type of transformation raises the need to analyze the situation of animals and their welfare in the context of human life, physical activity and demonstrated (or not demonstrated) empathy. In the history of mankind, animals have always been important companions of man, including in relation to all forms of cognitive activity, as well as sports. The purpose of this article is to analyze the historical conditions of human activity with animals in the broadest sense. The background of the analysis was made the history of the world's most famous journey, taking place in the 19th century, whose participant was the British naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin. This adventure is a vehicle for many messages and reports on humanity, activity, as well as our human sensibilities. It is also a powerful resource that can help us answer the research question of how much it is appropriate to use animals for human psycho-physical development nowadays in times of developing knowledge of intelligence, emotions and social behavior. This type of recognition carries a whole baggage of information and clues about what brings us pride as humans, what discredits us, and what can inspire with today's opportunities.
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