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Zeitgenössische Gesellschaft und ihre Ängste. Zur sprachlichen Re-Inszenierung des Katastrophischen in Kathrin Rögglas Prosaband die alarmbereiten

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Rutka A.

Germanica Wratislaviensia

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2014

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vol. 139

99 - 112

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In her prose work die alarmbereiten, a critical language analysis from 2010, Kathrin Röggla examines “the grammar of catastrophe” which is a dominant pattern in the contemporary perception of reality. The narration of catastrophe and crisis constitutes — as convincingly proven by Röggla’s work — trajectories of equally a collective-public and an individual-private experience of the world. This paper examines the common communicative patterns, rhetoric and gestures in the public and private discourse on catastrophes and crises. The purpose of the paper is to present the discursive mechanisms of power hiding behind the facade of the omnipresent “being on the alert” (Ger. Die Alarmbereitschaft).

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Japanese Support System of Crisis Management Services

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Gudzbeler G., Nepelski M., Urban A.

Internal Security

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2011

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vol. 3(1)

107-127

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Intensification of threats in recent years in Poland has exposed many imperfections in the system of disaster management at many levels - national, regional, and, most importantly, local. Lack of integration of IT systems of institutions responsible for crisis management has often led to information chaos and inability to perform basic tasks in this area. In crisis situations which occur in Poland – that is disasters with catastrophic consequences – there exists a real risk of failure to perform required operations. The article presents an outline of Japanese crisis management system. It describes research conducted by Japanese institutions related to disaster management, and discusses information and decision support systems. The article focuses on mutual integration of such systems and data flow among institutions and parties involved in the preparation, response and dealing with consequences of crisis situations. It also presents principles of operation of the Metropolitan Disaster Research Center, which conducts research and works as a crisis management center for the city of Tokyo. The authors presented four institutions which are vital for the Japanese system: JAMSTEC, NIED, E-Defence, and Tokyo Metropolitan Disaster Research Center. Technical and technological solutions existing in the above institutions may be a model for systems built in Poland and the world, especially since the whole system has recently undergone a serious test as a result of the disaster that struck Japan on the 11th of March 2011. The test that, according to many observers, proved that Japanese system of disaster management can be given the highest rating.

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Il significato sociale e la connotazione della catastrofe. Uno studio sul lessico

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Nitti P., Nitti P.

Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny

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2021

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issue 3

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Od krize Západu k jeho katastrofě : Ke strukturalistické koncepci ﬁlosoﬁe dějin J. L. Fischera

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Pauza M.

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)

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2016

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vol. 64

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issue 2

229-246

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This article treats of Fischer’s structuralistic conception of the crisis of Western civilisation in its connections with Czech and world philosophy, sociology and politology. Modern history of the West presents a drama in the course of which crisis is followed by peripetia leading to catastrophe. Crisis is understood as a catharsis brought about by new knowledge. When it is a question of the catastrophe of civilisation – that is the disintegration of its existing form – the concept of crisis is, in Fischer’s view, misapplied. The real descent of the West was, in his view, caused by a “primitivism of viewpoint”: more precisely, a disdain towards transcendence. This initiated the dominance of “mechanism”, gradually taking upon itself the forms of the Enlightenment, Darwinism, Marxism and pragmatism. The social consequence of this primitivism is, from the end of the nineteenth century, a growth in violence and egocentric self-assertion. The twentieth century theoretically legitimised this tendency by, among other things, ‘postmodern’ ideology. The actual catastrophe of the West is, however, in its current form, the result of a democratism conceived in a liberal way which, utilising the formalised ideas of Freedom and Rights, masks individualistic abuses and the abuses of narrow interest groups. The dominance of the “new primitivism”, which destabilises the social whole, can be countered only by the revival of the idea of democracy as respect for expertise – with emphasis on the permanent political engagement of competent social subjects. The civilizational catastrophe of the West can be checked only by an overall socio-political intervention which will defend general social interests.

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Errare humanum est, but Sometimes Costs are Extremely High. The Biggest Constructional Catastrophe in Polish History: The Collapsed Building in Chorzow-Katowice

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Chmielewski P.

Polish Sociological Review

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2007

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vol. 159

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issue 3

321-340

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The paper approaches the biggest constructional catastrophe in Polish history. Article focuses on conditions and causes of crises. Conditions refer to: biophysical factors, natural and technical ones, different institutional rules acting in variable spheres of life, as well as various characteristics of community. All of them create context of actions of human beings. Those conditions combined with intentional, rationally bounded and opportunistic individual, transform into causes of social events (positive and negative). Catastrophe in Chorzo´w-Katowice was a result of all of those elements mentioned above. New institutional approach used in this paper seems to be the most productive to explain and understand different social crises.

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Od wydarzenia katastrofy do kata/stroficznego czytania. Poezja Charles’a Baudelaire’a w relacji Jorge’a Semprúna L’écriture ou la vie

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Kasper J.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2015

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issue 25

309-329

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This essay addresses the instable meaning of the term catastrophe over the course of history. The first part takes leave of the “the tiny fissures” in the continuous catastrophe noted by Walter Benjamin to develop a philology of the cata/strophe. This philology does not only register a given meaning (for instance, of the catastrophe), but intervenes actively as disruption. It insists on the strophe in the catastrophe, transforming catastrophe into cata/strophe that, in fatal situations, permits the poetic potential to become a dynamic force that can, at least on the linguistic level, open toward other dimensions without denying the catastrophe itself. The second part is dedicated to a reading of Jorge Semprún’s autobiographical novel L’écriture ou la vie from the perspective of this philological concept. It seeks to show how Semprún’s citing and reciting of Baudelaire’s strophes in the putrid atmosphere of the Buchenwald concentration camp literally produce, on the level of the signifiers, fresh air to breathe.

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Postkatastroficzne „wypadki języka”

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Adamczak K.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2015

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issue 25

333-341

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The subject of review is a collective work Unfälle der Sprache. Literarische und philologische Erkundungen der Katastrophe [“Language Accidents. Literary and Philological Explorations of Catastrophe”] published in 2014 and edited by German Romanicists: Ottmar Ette and Judith Kasper. The book deals with the events recognized as catastrophes and their philological-literary representations. The articles, discussed on the selected examples, depict–on the one hand–a theoretical aspect of struggling with catastrophe itself, as well as with extreme experiences and feelings connected with it. On the other hand, the authors concentrate on the analysis of the literary works dealing with the question of the Shoah, as discussed by Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, David Grossman, and Jorge Semprún.

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“Earth’s Powder/ in the Basilica of the Cosmos:” Ecocatastrophe and its scale in Marcin Ostrychacz’s Cielenie lodowca [Iceberg calving]

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Borucki D.

Forum Poetyki

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2022

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issue 30

EN

This article is devoted to the analysis of Marcin Ostrychacz’s poems collected in the volume Cielenie lodowca [Iceberg calving]. The article examines the poems using the concepts of the environmental catastrophe and the almost unimaginable scale on which it is taking place. Both concepts play a crucial role in the eco-critical discourse. The author tries to prove that by using the category of the detail, Ostrychacz strives to regain conceptual control over both notions. The poet sees the Earth as a detail in the cosmos and thus is able to process the phenomena which function on a wider planetary plane and find a counterbalance to the apocalyptic visions.

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Szkic poświęcony został analizie wierszy Marcina Ostrychacza zebranych w tomie Cielenie lodowca. Celem artykułu jest przyjrzenie się im przy użyciu powracających w ekokrytycznym dyskursie pojęć środowiskowej katastrofy oraz trudnej do wyobraźniowego przetworzenia skali, na której ta się odbywa. Autor stara się dowieść, że wykorzystując kategorię detalu, poeta dąży do odzyskania nad nimi konceptualnej kontroli. Celowe zobaczenie Ziemi jako detalu na kosmicznym obrazie pozwala mu na przetworzenie rozciągniętych na planetarnym planie zjawisk oraz wypracowanie określonej przeciwwagi dla świadomości uczestniczenia w pogłębiającym się kryzysie.

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Świat po katastroﬁe. Motywy postczarnobylskie w powieści Очамимря Ołeksandra Irwańca i w dramacie Na początku i na końcu czasów Pawła Arje

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Olechowska P., Zambrzycka M.

Studia Ucrainica Varsoviensia

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2019

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vol. 7

121-136

PL

The subject of the article is the analysis of post-Chernobyl themes in the novel by Oleksandr Irwaniec Ochamimriya and in Pawel Arje’s play At the beginning and end of time. The Chernobyl disaster played a key role in the development of contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture. Chernobyl very quickly became a universal metaphor that have gone far beyond ecology and into a cultural and political context. In both works, the atomic explosion (taken literally by Arje, as the explosion of the No. IV reactor in Chernobyl and by Irvacek more vaguely as an explosion) is a key element of the plot, aﬀ ecting both the fate of the characters and the shape of the surrounding reality. Although these works belong to two diﬀ erent literary genres and showcase two diﬀ erent conventions of presenting reality, they are connected by a post-apocalyptic vision of the world and the concept of a looping time. The heroes of both texts live in a time after the catastrophe, deprived of civilized goods and isolated from the rest of the world. In the novel by Irwaniec, this time after the catastrophe is a sort of “new medieval” with a decidedly pessimistic expression while in Arje’s drama the return to the pre-industrial worldview contains hope for ﬁ nding traditional values. Both texts also address issues relevant to the modern post-Soviet society, but they do so in very diﬀerent ways. Irwaneć uses grotesque, to deprive his characters of complexity, while Arje makes his characters deeply tragic and psychologically probable.

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Inkluzywne nurty dojrzałej teologii politycznej Jürgena Moltmanna

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Danielewicz Z.

Acta Politica Polonica

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2020

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vol. 50

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issue 2

33-44

EN

The paper follows the development of academic activity of a German protestant theologian Jürgen Moltmann covering the period of seven decades and interprets it from the perspective of political theology that he has been creating in an explicit or more implicit way, integrating it with various and seemingly non-political issues. Such integral and cohesive shape of Moltmann’s political theology unveils a picture of committed Christian reflection involved in various areas of social and natural life. In an original way, Moltmann picks up not only the subjects typically associated with political philosophy and theology, such as human rights, freedom, dignity, equality or justice, but refers all of them to non-human part of the natural world – the world that is on the brink global catastrophe that endangers the whole human and non-human system of life on earth. It is an apocalyptic catastrophe undoubtedly caused by humans.

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W artykule przybliżono trwającą ponad siedem dekad twórczą drogę niemieckiego protestanckiego teologa Jürgena Moltmanna. Teksty − tworzone przez niego explicite bądź implicite i wiązane z różnorodnymi, zdawałoby się pozapolitycznymi zagadnieniami − zinterpretowano z perspektywy teologii politycznej. Integralny wykład teologii politycznej Moltmanna to obraz zaangażowania chrześcijańskiej refleksji w różnorodne wymiary życia społeczeństw i świata pozaspołecznego. Moltmann w oryginalny sposób podejmuje kwestie nie tylko klasycznie powiązane z filozofią i teologią polityczną, jak np. prawa człowieka, wolność, godność, równość czy sprawiedliwość, ale odnosi je do pozaludzkiej części świata natury, i to znajdującej się na skraju globalnej katastrofy zagrażającej systemowi ludzkiemu oraz pozaludzkiemu życiu na ziemi - apokaliptycznej katastrofy w sposób ewidentny wywołanej przez człowieka.

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Historiograficzne leki na katastrofy narodowe. O pracach nad kodeksem dyplomatycznym Śląska przed i po roku 1945

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Pestrykov O.

Historyka Studia Metodologiczne

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2022

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vol. 52

371-386

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This paper is an attempt to answer the question: can the process of historical source construction be a way of responding to national catastrophe? The primary meaning of the word catastrophe is the unexpected but logical conclusion of a play. Although the word "catastrophe" has changed its meaning, it still retains its connotation. It is not a meaningless ending. History cannot be the cure for catastrophe in the classical sense. Its effects are well described by the idea of Pharmakon, which we can find in Plato. Pharmakon is both a medicine and a poison. A person suffering a catastrophe is not cured, but rather is inebriated by history. It is what gives one the strength to survive the trauma of catastrophe. Historians are no exception. The second half of the article is a concrete example (case‑study) of how, under the guise of objective studies of historical documents, historians create realities that help them to relive (but not cure) the trauma of catastrophe. Often the historical source is perceived as an immutable, natural basis for the construction of a historical narrative. A historical source has no nationality, but it can obtain it. The most popular and simple way is the publication of new (or first) historical sources edition as "nationals" This article examines a specific example of the race between Polish and German historians (after 1945) on the issue of publishing historical sources concerning mediaeval Silesian history. Since the very same documents had to be published, the primacy in publication of new editions had to determine its "nationality".

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What Space Is This Time? Historiography in the Space of History

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Bank R. K.

Pamiętnik Teatralny

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2021

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issue 4(279)

25-40

EN

In asking the question embedded in the title, this article explores the tension between inertia and change in cultural historical studies. Inertia in this context does not mean inactive or inert (i.e., without active properties), but the structural constraints that are revealed when codes, forms, practices, roles, etc., contest. What kinds and forms of socio-cultural knowledge, values, or structures are maintained, developed, or abandoned across geographies and throughout a system’s history? Rather than thinking in terms of core and margin and related binaries of difference and “othering,” inertia and change as historiographical strategies focus on the dynamics that affect social systems and structures, preserving some systems to conserve energy while introducing or forsaking others. In the process of exploring these spaces in historiographical time, this article draws historical examples from attempts among scholars and performers in the United States in the latter nineteenth century to stage “American” histories that stored, rejected, and created past and contemporaneous historical spaces at such sites as Lewis Henry Morgan’s view of Ancient Society (1877), the Columbian Exposition of 1893, and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.

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GÓRNICZE MIEJSCA PAMIĘCI JAKO TWORZYWO DO OPRACOWANIA TEMATYCZNEGO SZLAKU KULTUROWEGO W PRZESTRZENI RUDY ŚLĄSKIEJ

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ŚWITAŁA-TRYBEK D.

Zeszyty Naukowe. Turystyka i Rekreacja

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2019

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vol. 1(23)

133-150

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Dramatyczne wydarzenia, w których jednorazowo ginie większa liczba osób, pozostawiają po sobie materialne ślady w postaci obiektów architektonicznych: pomników, tablic pamiątkowych, krzyży, a także kaplic. Nie inaczej jest w przypadku katastrof górniczych. Miejsc upamiętniających tragicznie zmarłych w kopalniach węgla kamiennego w krajobrazie osiedli górniczych i pogórniczych jest bardzo wiele. Przedmiotem artykułu są miejsca pamięci nieszczęśliwych wydarzeń w kopalniach na obszarze Rudy Śląskiej, które powstały od połowy XIX wieku po współczesność. Ze względu na liczne przykłady ich występowania (pomniki, mogiły zbiorowe, małe obiekty sakralne) mogą one stanowić interesujące tworzywo do opracowania szlaku turystyczno-kulturowego „Rudzkie miejsca pamięci górniczego trudu”. Podstawą niniejszego opracowania są materiały zebrane przez autorkę podczas badań terenowych prowadzonych od 2006 roku (rejestracja obiektów pamięci), a także kwerenda archiwaliów oraz dostępna na ten temat literatura przedmiotu.

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Dramatic events, where a lot of people die at once, leave behind material traces in the form of architectural objects: monuments, commemorative plaques, crosses, and chapels. This is true also in the case of mining accidents. There are many memorial sites commemorating the victims of accidents in coal mines in the landscape of mining and post-mining settlements. This article focuses on memorial sites devoted to unfortunate events that happened in mines in the area of Ruda Śląska, established from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Due to numerous occurrences (monuments, mass graves, small sacral objects), they may provide interesting material for the development of a tourist and cultural trail “Miner’s toll memorial sites in the area of Ruda Śląska”. The basis of this study are materials gathered by the Author during field studies carried out since 2006 (registration of memorial sites), as well as a query of archives and available literature.

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Problem interpretacji zasady Fiat iustitia, ruat coelum (The Problem of Interpretation of the Principle fiat iustitia, ruat coelum)

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Lewandowski W.

Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne

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2019

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vol. 46

5-23

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Most of the consequential and deontological interpretations of the fiat iustitia, ruat coelum principle, do not allow treating it as a basis for resolving practical problems. This article presents a proposal for an interpretation, under which this principle can serve as a practical rule. This interpretation assumes that fiat iustitia, ruat coelum applies to the final decision that affects the assessment of the entire life of the agent or humanity. Success of this interpretation depends on whether the lack of morally permissible possibilities to avoid individual or global catastrophe may serve as a reason for accepting it.

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Większość konsekwencjalnych i deontologicznych interpretacji zasady fiat iustitia, ruat coelum nie pozwala na stosowanie jej do rozstrzygania praktycznych problemów. Artykuł przedstawia propozycję takiej interpretacji, przy której zasada ta może służyć jako reguła praktyczna. Interpretacja ta zakłada, że fiat iustitia, ruat coelum stosuje się do ostatecznych decyzji, które wpływają na ocenę całego życia podmiotu lub ludzkości. Sukces tej interpretacji zależy od tego, czy brak moralnie dopuszczalnych możliwości uniknięcia indywidualnej lub globalnej katastrofy może stanowić rację do jej zaakceptowania.

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Za ścianą. O kobiecie, zwierzętach i (nie)codzienności w powieści Ściana Marlen Haushofer

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Głuszko-Boczoń E.

Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies

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2022

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issue 1 (11)

1-19

RU

Изданный в 1963 году роман Стена Марлен Хаусхофер принес автору широкую известность и завоевал признание читателей и критиков не только в немецкоязычных странах. Героиню в результате непонятного, необъяснимого события отсекает от внешнего мира невидимая преграда – стена. За стеной жизнь людей и животных замирает в буквальном смысле. Единственный, кто остался в живых, – наша героиня. С тех пор женщина вынуждена жить в полном одиночестве и рассчитывать только на себя. Ее единственные спутники – несколько животных, придающих смысл ее существованию. Чувство ответственности за живые существа, забота о них, а также полная изоляция и ощущение безнадежности определяют повседневность героини. Цель статьи – показать упомянутую в названии (не)повседневность героини, вызванную неожиданной катастрофой. Важным кажется исследование попыток протагонистки сконструировать собственный социум, в котором отношения между людьми заменяются отношениями с животными. Не менее важен анализ стратегии выживания, которая базируется на известных героине стратегиях времен до катастрофы. Героиня вынуждена принять новую роль в новых реалиях, которые – как оказалось – являются своего рода отражением предыдущей социальной роли. В статье представлена попытка верификации установленных общественных правил, которые перед лицом радикального изменения вынужденно обесценились. Текст Хаусхофер можно прочитать как аллегорический рассказ о современности, в которой страхи перед неизведанным (катастрофой/войной/пандемией) определяют ежедневную жизнь отдельного человека. Статья базируется преимущественно на исследовании текста Стена Хаусхофер, а проведенный анализ указывает на феминистический дискурс, экокритику и animal studies.

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Marlen Haushofer’s novel, The Wall (Die Wand), published in 1963, elevated the author to fame, winning the admiration of readers and critics beyond the German-speaking world. As a result of a twist of fate she can neither grasp let alone understand, the heroine is cut off from the external world by an invisible obstacle – the titular wall. Behind it, human and animal life dies away, literally. She is the sole survivor of the catastrophe. From then on, she has to live in complete seclusion, left to her own devices and to fend for herself. Her only companions are a small group of animals giving sense to her existence. The sense of responsibility she feels for those living beings, her care for them, and the total isolation and sense of hopelessness become the determinants of her everyday life. This paper aims to present the main character’s uncommonnessof daily living conveyed by the title and caused by an unexpected disaster. It seems important to investigate the protagonist’s attempts to reconstruct her own social space, where human interactions are replaced by interactions with animals. It is no less important to investigate her survival strategies, which are based on the strategies she had known before the disaster. The character has to take on a new role in a new reality that turns out to be a kind of reflection of her previous social role. This paper attempts to review the established social rules which had to become devalued to a certain extent when the character was faced with a radical change. Haushofer’s work can also be interpreted as a parable of the present time, in which fear of what is unknown (a disaster, a war, a pandemic) determines the way that the individual lives day by day. This paper is based primarily on the source text, namely M. Haushofer’s The Wall, and the analysis in this paper refers to feminist discourse, ecocriticism and animal studies.

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Wydana w 1963 roku powieść Marlen Haushofer Ściana przyniosła autorce duży rozgłos i zyskała uznanie czytelników i krytyków nie tylko w krajach niemieckojęzycznych. Bohaterka, na skutek niezrozumiałego i niepojętego zrządzenia losu, zostaje odcięta od świata zewnętrznego przez niewidzialną przeszkodę – ścianę. Za ścianą życie ludzi i zwierząt zamiera w sensie dosłownym. Jedyną ocalałą z katastrofy jest bohaterka. Od tej pory kobieta musi żyć w całkowitym odosobnieniu, zdana wyłącznie na siebie. Jedynymi jej towarzyszami jest kilka zwierząt, które nadają sens jej egzystencji. Poczucie odpowiedzialności za żywe stworzenia, troska o nie, a także całkowita izolacja oraz poczucie beznadziei determinują codzienność bohaterki. Samotność jednostki w obliczu katastrofy i strach przed nieznanym to tematyka powieści, która dzisiaj wydaje się być szczególnie aktualna.

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Po co nam postapokalipsy? Kultura postapokaliptyczna na początku XXI wieku z perspektywy kultur Zachodu

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Wierel K.

Przegląd Humanistyczny

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2017

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vol. 61(1 (456))

11-20

PL

In the article I wonder about the reasons for the growing popularity of the postapocalyptic works in the pop culture of the early 21st century. The world after the collapse of the Western civilization is created in various literary, film and photographic forms, the examples of which I present in my study. The alternative post-apocalyptic reality is the postindustrial reality, archaized and non-anthropocentric. The technological regress presented in the works is based on imaginings of the end and is analogous to the fall of humanity among those people who survived after the “end” or were born afterwards. In the post-apocalyptic works of the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries it can be noticed that the authors of the vision of world “after to end” abandoned an extremely negative tone.

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Catastrophism - Philosophy of the "End" or Diagnosis of Reality?

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Wróbel C.

Historyka Studia Metodologiczne

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2005

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vol. 35

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Extraordinary threats to people and the environment – interpretation and educational aspects

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Wiśniewski B., Kaczmarczyk B.

Zeszyty Naukowe Państwowej Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej im. Witelona w Legnicy

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2018

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issue 3(28)

79-88

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The article presents the basic knowledge of extraordinary threats to people and the environment. Generally speaking, it is a group of threats most often appearing in the macro and micro human environment and affecting an individual’s security. They are classified in catalogues of risks that infringe ecological and general safety. Effective counteraction to these threats is possible by identifying their sources, determining the probability of their occurrence, estimating the risk and consequences for people and the environment involved. Basic knowledge in this area is necessary to be able to cope with it, as it allows for counteracting threats effectively, also through social education. This education is a pillar and a manifestation of care for the safety of both man and the environment in which he lives.

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W artykule przedstawiono podstawową wiedzę na temat nadzwyczajnych zagrożeń dla ludzi i środowiska. Ogólnie rzecz biorąc, jest to grupa zagrożeń najczęściej pojawiających się w środowisku makro- i mikroludzi oraz wpływających na bezpieczeństwo. Są sklasyfikowane w katalogach zagrożeń, które naruszają bezpieczeństwo ekologiczne i ogólne. Skuteczne przeciwdziałanie tym zagrożeniom jest możliwe poprzez określenie ich źródeł, określenie prawdopodobieństwa ich wystąpienia, oszacowanie ryzyka i konsekwencji dla ludzi i środowiska. Podstawowa wiedza w tym zakresie jest konieczna, aby móc sobie z tym poradzić, ponieważ pozwala skutecznie przeciwdziałać zagrożeniom, w tym poprzez edukację społeczną. Ta edukacja jest filarem i przejawem dbałości o bezpieczeństwo zarówno człowieka, jak i środowiska, w którym żyje.

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Czarnobylska opowieść. Katastroficzny mit zapisany w fotografii

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Karpiel A.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

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2020

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vol. 109

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issue 2

234-245

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This article attempts to analyse and interpret the ever-growing popularity of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone among tourists, focusing on photographs taken by people visiting the Zone. The author draws conclusions based on her exploratory field research conducted in March 2019. She studies the statements and photographic practices of the trip participants, using them as a starting point for proposing her own theses. The stories of Chernobyl become the basis for reading the myth of a nuclear disaster, while photographs are a representation of tourist’s ideas of it. The key to their interpretation is to apply the theory of mythology developed by Roland Barthes and Claude Levi-Strauss to see the links between eternal oppositions, such as life-death, ordinary-unusual, nature-culture, disaster-everyday life. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone becomes the stage on which the mythical tale of ‘the world turned upside down’ and ‘the city without people’ is told.

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