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The author confronts the reader with a fundamental methodological dilemma of the humanities, which can be formulated as the following question: Should we speak about the philosophy of culture, or rather about cultural philosophy? The author attempts to explain this problem against the background of the modern situation of globalization. The second part of the paper deals with the opposition of culture and nature. In the two last parts of the paper, the author works to present the phenomenological genealogy of culture, in which an important role is played by the notion of the 'stranger'.
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“Excursus on the Stranger” by Georg Simmel is a popular classical sociological text, whereas the stranger as a social type is one of the best known concepts of classical sociology. This paper claims that common sociological interpretations of this concept greatly ignore the context of Simmel’s text and his thoughts, thus missing the essence of his idea. This is due to the fact that Simmel wrote about the stranger in the context of his sociology of space, which is a relatively unknown feature of his thought. We discuss significant features of Simmel’s sociology of space, and present a reconceptualization of the stranger within this context.
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The author examines the issue of Twelfth Night theatrical idiom in a broad cultural context. She looks at its origins in the Christian feast of Epiphany, as well as on integration of more archaic elements of folk theatre into the Twelfth Night after Kračún (winter solstice). She conceives this idiom as an open to racial, religious and cultural presentation of otherness, as well as a situational model for the projection of specific historical events - as illustrated by the example of staging paintings from the 15th century. The central part of the study draws on two major interpretive shifts, first analysing fragment from Ballek’s staging performance “Tiso” in traditional space of the theatre, second an itinerant theatrical activities of modern carolling performance “The Good News”, seen as a new theatrical phenomenon in terms of cultural and social functions and characterized by its strong territorial expansion.
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The study focuses on the selected texts by Central European writers which are thematically set in the Eastern Carpathians. This radically multi-ethnic and multinational region is considered to be by the author one of the relatively independent cultural areas of Central Europe. Using examples such as Ivan Olbracht, Karel Čapek or Sándor Márai, the author shows that the narrative perspectives of a stranger, outcast, migrant in combination with the themes of border and conflict between vernacular and alien are characteristic for the literary image of the Eastern Carpathian border region in the 20th century. The author looks at the way the literary appearance of this area is ideologically deformed in the works of individual authors. The Eastern European writers who do not come from the Eastern Carpathian border region use characters of strangers to reflect on the relationship between the modern and the traditional. Autochthonous authors often make use of the stranger characters to depict the area´s self-colonial efforts (Kiossev) in relation to the referential dominant cultures. We can follow how this cultural referentiality has been changing during the region´s history from the original Austrian-Hungarian cultural framework through the frameworks of the individual national cultures to Central European or European cultural framework accented by the current cultural policy.
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W prezentowanym artykule autor zastanawia się, czym jest wrogość jako taka, przyjmując, iż ludzie z natury są wobec siebie raczej przychylni, pozbawieni negatywnych odczuć. Nie chodzi o dokładne opisanie kategorii „obcego”, ale ważniejszy jest sam proces, który sprawia, że ktoś zostaje w ten sposób określony. Wrogość jest czymś wtórnym, pochodnym, zatem tym, co przeinacza, przekłamuje prawdę o człowieku. Nie sposób jednak powiedzieć, co tak naprawdę skłania człowieka do tego, by wyzwoliła się w nim postawa wrogości. Jak rozgrywa się ten skomplikowany, jak można mniemać, akt przejścia od traktowania kogoś jako „innego” do myślenia o nim w kategorii „obcego”? Autor próbuje wskazać kilka istotnych wątków, by dojść do konkluzji, iż proces „tworzenia obcego”, choć sam w sobie nienaturalny, stanowi nieodłączny element świata, w jakim żyjemy. Konkluzja ta ma zawsze tragiczny wymiar.
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This paper contemplates the concept of hostility working on the assumption that people are by nature friendly and deprived of negative feelings. What it takes to fit the category of ‘stranger’ is secondary to how one becomes one in the in the eyes of other people. It is the process that matters. Hostility is a derivative and a by-product, it twists and distorts the truth about man. It is difficult to pin down what produces or provokes a hostile attitude in people. How does this complex transition from being seen as ‘different’ in the eyes of the beholders to being categorised as the ‘stranger’ play out? The author seeks to draw the reader’s attention to several apparently important themes, only to conclude that the „making of the stranger”, unnatural as it might seem, is inherent to our world. This conclusion is always tragic.
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