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Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2021
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vol. 76
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issue 2
81 – 96
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The aim of the article is to investigate the issue of freedom as a political value, its relationship to the so-called reflexive freedom and its two historical forms: freedom as autonomy and freedom as an authenticity. The introduction examines the problem of whether freedom belongs more to the domain of metaphysics or political philosophy, and discusses the ideas of existentialist understanding of freedom. The idea of negative liberty as the core of the liberal conception of justice is critically examined against the background of a summary of Honneth’s ideas on reflexive, negative, and social freedom and its historical protagonists. The author emphasizes the weaknesses and the inability of the liberal concept of freedom and justice to solve mainly the problem of people with disabilities, global justice and issues related to species specificity.
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The article is about searching for cultural authenticity of the Moroccan society – “the country of setting sun” – in the perspective of booming tourism. The first part of the article presents a short characteristic of some chosen aspects of the unusually colorful Moroccan culture. Then, the most important reasons for the disappearance of the genuine face of the country, seized by tourist industry and striving for better future as well as for recognition on the world market, are shown. The attempt to adopt the rules imposed by “the modern times momentum” is often connected with some form of sacrifice as well as the loss of essence of identity and individuality. The next part of the article touches the issue of ethics in tourism. Certain examples help to picture the ethical attitudes visible in the relations between Moroccans and the arriving tourists. Next, the article presents the phenomenon of folclorization and the cultural “show” for tourists, which results from the cultural authenticity disappearance. In the last part of the article, the analysis of a survey carried out among Moroccans is presented. The survey studies the degree of tradition and identity disappearance, as well as the inhabitants’ attitude towards the booming tourism.
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SIGNIFICANCE OF BANAL THINGS: A REPLY TO MAKKY

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2020
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vol. 9
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issue 2
105 – 108
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This short paper comments on Lukáš Makky’s article What Makes Things Banal. The argument is divided into two sections. The first section reconstructs Makky’s understanding of banality, which he develops based on aesthetic theories by Wolfgang Welsch and Walter Benjamin. The second and more critical section examines the validity of the arguments Makky uses for his definition of banality. Although this commentary attaches great value to Makky’s insightful analysis of the term banality and agrees with identifying it as a historical and processual concept, drawing on writings by M. Heidegger and J. Derrida it eventually proposes a different understanding of the relationship between the arts and banal things and underlines the importance of banality for the creation and perception of the arts.
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Authenticity is one of the most prominent factors determining the value of an art work as well as conservation theory and praxis. It exerts prime impact on defining decision strategies, and the significance, preservation, exposition and conservation-restoration of a given work. It also determines the form in which it will be passed on to future generations. In the past, criteria applied for assessing authenticity underwent a number of changes, and by the twentieth century they assumed a form defined in assorted codes of conservation ethics and procedure. Authenticity, however, is not an absolute and constant value, but succumbs to perennial transformations and reflects new truths and criteria. The article attempts to answer these questions within the domain of select problems and upon the basis of most recent international accomplishments. Philosophical premises act as a point of departure for a discussion on the conditions of the preservation of the authenticity of a contemporary art work, with the authoress considering the authenticity of matter, conception and context as well as differentiated approaches to the protection of old art according to the principles of technological correctness. Other questions involve the specificity, techniques and technology of present-day art and its impact on preservation and permanence. The presented reflections pertain to the uniqueness of the conception of a work of art, which can be detected by studying not only its structure but predominantly the artist's intentions. Just as important is the establishment of the context of space, place, culture or history. Attention is drawn to the necessity of distinguishing the complexity of particular, haptic-optic elements of the work of art and their mutual relations, which leads to the preservation of inner unity. The assorted problems are illustrated with examples of Polish and world art in whose cases the comprehension of authenticity was neither obvious nor unambiguous, and frequently resulted in falsifying the original message. Finally, the article examines the newest world tendencies and paths of conservation and protection, which designate the tasks, methods, forms and purposes of ventures intent on preserving the modern work of art together with 'in the full richness of their authenticity'.
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The primary purpose of this article is to answer the question of whether writing a blog defined as a personal diary can help to better understand himself. Self-awareness is a prerequisite for authentic existence. In the first part analyzed the concept of authenticity. Pointed out the relationship of authenticity to the categories of freedom, truth and responsibility. The second part presents the relationship between authentic existence and the process of self-disclosure, which may take place in the blogosphere. In the third part presents the question whether a writing blog affects the level authenticity of existence. It was recognized that a key element of this phenomenon is the sense of responsibility.
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ESEJ O FARBÁCH A (NE)FARBÁCH VO FILME

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2014
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vol. 3
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issue 1
26 – 32
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The essay is trying to debate about aspects of the perception in relations between black and white and colour film, as opposed two approaches to the art of cinema. The leitmotif of this paper is finding the fundamental nature and authenticity of the film arts through the history of the transition from black and white to colour film, and with respect to the whole society determinants influencing this process. From the professional point of view essay charts the basic functions of colour in the film and highlights their importance for active perception of cinematographic work.
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Perpetua is well known for her lively first person account of her stay in prison before execution. In some recent papers, it has been doubted whether Perpetua actually composed this text herself. This paper argues that while we cannot be absolutely certain that Perpetua wrote 'her' text, attempts to doubt her authorship cannot be based on the Latin text of the Passio, where it is clearly stated that Perpetuais text was written manu sua 'with her own hand'.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2011
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vol. 66
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issue 9
879 – 889
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My making choices and acting on those choices in a way that might count as my being free would seem to require that those choices are truly my choices. Furthermore, for my choices to be truly mine, it would seem that these choices must reflect my true self. So it seems that choosing and acting freely depends in a robust sense on such choosing and acting being authentic. Yet the concept of authenticity seems problematic. What or where is that true self which would be the basis for authentic choosing, acting and living? Perhaps there is no such true self. This problem is central to the philosophies of both Sartre and Foucault. For the philosophers freedom authenticity or self-hood were central. The paper aims to show that, in spite of Foucault’s criticism, Sartre does not fall back on the idea of a true or deep self that is given to us. Sartre can appeal to the idea of authenticity without holding on such a dubious construct as a given, true self. Therefore the exploration of bad faith, good faith and authenticity in Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, where the problem is posed but left unresolved, is necessary. Sartre’s Anti-Semite and Jew, where a more concrete problem – the problem of authentically identifying oneself with a group of human beings − actually opens up a way how to overcome the problem of authenticity.
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The paper brings an outline of modern discourse on authenticity, including the existentialist, pragmatist and postmodern approaches as well as its conservative critics. It subscribes to the concepts that still regard this ideal as legitimate leaning on the context of understanding the concept of originality. The specific feature of contemporary humanism is seen in the efforts to give integrity back to humans and meaningful content to human life. This is chiefly illustrated within the context of other approaches by examples of the concepts from the domain of humanistic psychology (Rogers, Maslow) and of the ethics of authenticity (Taylor); these regard the authentic expression of human nature as psychological need and ethical challenge.
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This essay attempts at analysing the notion or concept of authenticity (approached as a moral postulate) in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's works. The basic subject of analysis includes: the 'Lettre á d'Alembert sur les Spectacles' (Letter to Alembert on the Theater); 'Les Confessions' (The Confessions); and 'Les Reveries du Promeneur Solitaire' (Reveries of the Solitary Walker). These are treated as parts of a peculiar 'monologue' in which Rousseau endeavours to present himself to the reading audiences, seeks to find his 'self proper', associable with the notion of 'nature'. The tools used include, at first, a critique of theatre and mask, then, a subjective attempt at describing his own life, and, finally, an intimate meditation. Partly inspired by a deconstructionist analysis, the author argues that all three attempts end up in a failure: a triumph of mask (Letter..., The Confessions), a loss of subjectivity and the 'self' getting melted in a mechanistic order of nature (Reveries...). This is indicative of certain aporiae occurring within the very notion of 'authentic self'; in order to emphasise them even stronger, Rousseau's texts are juxtaposed with Diderot's 'Rameau's Nephew', an ironical description of subjectivity to which theatricality and guise is the proper element. The essay is part of a larger work devoted to the history of the notion of authenticity in modern thought.
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The goal of the paper is to use a particular piece of writing by Leopold Lahola in order to describe the principles of existential poetics seen in a wider sense, as opposed to the literary historical concept of existentialism. In the first part of the paper, what is pointed out is the key, nodal points of literary historical reflection on the works by Leopold Lahola, which were from the start linked with the poetics of French existentialism. Later, in the 1960s the opinion was reviewed through the optics of humanism, mainly functioning within the political background of the times. The research conducted in the period of the last two decades, however, shows how problematic these interpretations are. The hypothesis of the paper based on knowing the assumptions of philosophy of existence seen in a wider sense and intuitive reading of Leopold Lahola´s writings lies in interpretation of poetics present in the writings using the key of existential imagination, and the absence of this in the history of reflection on the author´s works is the reason why their aesthetic impact is not exactly understood. In order to understand the concept of existential poetics as much as possible, the analysis uses the only short piece of writing by Leopold Lahola titled Vtáči spev/Birdsong, which makes it possible to deal with literariness of the selected type on the fundamental level and to understand it likewise.
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The goal of the paper is to give an interpretatory analysis of the novel Dáma/The Lady (1948) by František Švantner. The first part of the paper deals with the issue of authenticity of the subject matter in this piece of fiction. Traditionally, it is regarded as the literary rendition of Švantner´s friend Anton Kúdelka´s experiences from the times of the occupation of Poland in 1939. Based on the research into Kúdelka´s personal military records and the deployment of the military units in the given period of time, the paper makes a correction to the literary historical tradition stating that the town Zakopane was the real setting of the depicted events; Anton Kúdelka did not serve in Zakopane. The paper then focuses on the literary techniques used in Dáma, which have not been examined sufficiently despite the rich literary reflection on Švantner´s works (with reference to the knowledge of the most prominent experts on Švantner´s works, especially Števček, Kuzmíková). There is a discrepancy between the proclaimed authenticity of the narration and the stylistic rendition of this intention, the antithetical connection of the contrasting images created by means of poetic language as well as the „false trace“ narration technique and the alternation of the passages featuring subjective and objective tones. These techniques play part in building the drama of the novella and support the expressive style, which proves that the style in this piece of fiction is related to previous Švantner´s production and the line of lyric prose. In the end, the paper offers an interpretation of the novella title; the lady as: the protagonist, the social status, the irony of the common understanding of this word, a game (draughts), a chess piece (queen) and a figure in the hands of the evil. The contribution of the paper lies in revealing the literary historical distortion related to the original subject matter and in presenting the in-depth analysis of Švantner´s literary techniques used in the novella Dáma having the ambition to enrich the Švantnerological literary historical corpus.
ESPES
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2015
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vol. 4
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issue 2
60 – 68
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The paper represents analytic evaluation of key works of Slovak critic, art-theoretician and art-historian – Iva Mojžišová. The study contains an analysis of its partial problems – the meaning and the function of art-critique in Slovakia in the 20th century and nature of so called “authenticity” as key criterion of critical reflexions of fine art.
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The revival of documentary film at the turn of the millennia, caused by the influence of available digital technology and the advent of the young generation, has also been reflected in visual arts - in their need to provide testimonies about private, personal, family, and partner situations or stereotypes (Gabika Binderová, Pavlína Fichta Čierna, Anton Čierny), which sometimes overreach into public, socio-political affairs and phenomena (Ľubomír Ďurček, Peter Rónai, Elena Pätoprstá, Pavlína Fichta Čierna, Ilona Németh, Anna Daučíková, Kristián Németh, Mária Štefančíková, Katarína Karafová). Several authorial strategies, for example, journal entries, reality staging, observational, participation, performative, and reflexive approaches to processing reality, inspired by world trends and by theory, touch upon topical and universal themes – personal and collective memory (recording and erasing), memory places, the political and social body, gender stereotypes, etc. Despite common points of departure, motivations, used means or anti-audience “artsiness”, visual arts and documentary film preserve their own rules of game and specific manners of re/presentation.
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Pamiątki turystyczne – w poszukiwaniu tożsamości

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The article is a proposal of looking at tourist souvenirs as objects of anthropological, sociological and cultural analysis. The aim of the article is to position the tourist souvenir research in the context of considerations regarding the meaning of objects in the modern “supermarket of culture”. Moreover, the considerations regard buying souvenirs which can be described as one of numerous tourist rituals and as a space of intercultural contact.
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This paper is devoted to the issue of the so-called second existence of folklore, in folkloristics designated by the term folklorism. In the processes of folklorism phenomena of traditional culture make their way into a communication system where a technical type of communication prevails. Folklorism is based on a change of the context or often on a stylisation: on processes of levelling and typicisation in a direction from local to global, with the local taking on a symbolic value. In the author’s view, the phenomena of folklorism are a manifestation of contemporary popular culture, where interest in traditional culture/folklore represents one of the alternatives for self- identification of the individual, as a member of the so-called folklore community in the context of free time activities. She addresses also the concept of authenticity, analysing the articulation of space in three events of folklorism in Slovakia: the Východná Folklore Festival, Rozprávačské Lodno (storytelling) and Posolstvo piesní Slovensku a svetu (singing).
Asian and African Studies
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2007
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vol. 16
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issue 2
229 - 248
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The basic characteristics of the ancient Egyptian statuette from a private collection in Bratislava are described in this paper from the point of view of typology, iconography and epigraphy. In this connection related problems are discussed including reconstruction of the damaged inscription, its contents, translation and meaning, as well as the name of the statuette's owner, dating and so on. Moreover, one of the objectives of this research is the investigation of the possible authenticity of this artefact and its ancient origin.
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Classical Greece invested the maxim gnothi seathon with both cognitive and spiritual meaning. ‘Knowing thyself’ required an inner transformation and led to the attainment of real existence. Today, ‘being yourself’ and ‘self-knowledge’ describe totally different phenomena. ‘Knowing thyself’ means the examination of the content of one’s mind by introspection, whereas the concept of ‘being yourself’ is understood as spontaneous self-expression.The present paper discusses the specificity of ‘self-knowledge’, claiming that we can authoritatively explore our experiences. An analysis of Richard Moran’s theory shows that ‘self-knowledge’ is both dynamic and normative. There is a correspondence between the structure of ‘self-knowledge’ and the structure of ‘being yourself’ as it is described in Charles Taylor’s well-known notion of authenticity. The close similarity between these structures is a step towards showing that ‘self-knowledge’ is a way toward ‘being yourself’, which means the return to the classical Greek interconnection between ‘knowing thyself’ and existence.
Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2018
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vol. 46
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issue 2
91-107
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This article is a personal attempt to comment on the philosophy of encounter of Professor Adam Węgrzecki. I point to the convergence of his views and his attitude to life. Through the prism of this convergence, I interpret both the methods used by the Professor to create his own philosophical conception, and the conclusions which he formulates. From this perspective, I also discuss some selected axiological aspects of his philosophy of encounter. The aim of this article is to familiarize wider audiences with this important phenomenological concept and to encourage more independent study of his approach.
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The aim of the study is to show that it is possible to read the collection of the short stories by Dusan Dusek 'Milosrdný cas' (The Merciful Time) as a compact reminiscent story. This reader's approach is inspired especially by the types of a narrator in the stories, which signalised reminiscent strategy. At the interpretation we come out from the up to now having done readings of Dusek's proses (Krsáková, Zajac, Prusková), from the conception of a cultural memory by Jan Assman and also from theoretical works focused on the problem of authenticity in the literature (Mukarovský, Bachtin, Merhaut, P.de Man, Mikula, Zajac, etc.). Present interpretation showed that the world of Dusek's proses is a stylized version of everyday, profane world, which in the contact with getting involved; a very sensitive subject produces reminiscences of the past life in topical space. Dusek's world functions as a place of memory 'sui generis'. Anecdotes represent a peculiar unit in the book. It is possible to identify their phraseological character. Dusek's micro stories have a form of literal realisation of phraselogism, the author negates their metonymic /metaphoric base. We consider phraseologism as a cultural text with a denoting function and a qualifying intention, then the presented stories, as literally realised phraseologisms , are a cultural characteristic of the world of Dusek's proses and an organic part of the whole collection of the short stories.
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