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DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL CORRELATES OF SUICIDE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

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Dzurova D., Ruzicka L., Dragomirecka E.

Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review

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2006

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vol. 42

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issue 3

557-571

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In this article the authors review the trends and differentials in mortality from self-inflicted injury and poisoning in the Czech Republic between the early 1970s and the present in terms of their socio-economic and demographic associations. They describe the sources of data on suicide and explore the possible extent of under-reporting of deaths from suicide, and they examine the differences in suicide incidence by age and sex. With the decline in mortality from suicide, the male/female ratio of suicide rates increased from about 2.6 in the early 1970s to around 4.0 in recent years. Suicide rates increase steadily with age, and this pattern did not noticeably change during the period reviewed. The agespecific suicide rates of older men and women declined more than the rates for younger people. As in other societies, married men and women have the lowest suicide rates; in contrast, divorce puts both men and women at the greatest risk of suicide. The authors attempt to investigate the social correlates of suicide by analysing the variation in suicide rates among districts in the Czech Republic and selected socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the district populations. Stepwise regression analysis is used to identify three independent variables that explain 50% of the variation in suicide rates among districts: the abortion ratio, the percentage of locally born population, and the percentage of adults with limited education.

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DIFFERENCE OF SEVERANCE. HEIDEGGER AND LEVI-STRAUSS (Vidminnist rozryvu. Haideger ta Levi-Stros)

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Malabou C.

Філософська Думка

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2010

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issue 1

44-56

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The paper is devoted to the comparison of notions of difference by Heidegger and severance by Levi-Strauss. A possibility of comparison is caused by a broader context of the notion of structure however it is used by Heidegger and Levi-Strauss in various intellectual projects: 'Dasein' analysis by the former and anthropologic investigations by the latter. The author proves that most contemporary French philosophers address the problem of structure by Heidegger through a prism of structural anthropology of Levi-Strauss.

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Logika tego samego, czyli o zasadzie to(z)samości – od Luce Irigaray do Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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Marzec A.

Kwartalnik Filozoficzny

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2014

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vol. 42

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issue 3

107-132

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This article focuses on the mechanisms of the formation of homogeneous and hegemonic social structures based on predominance of one sex, exclusion of difference, and otherness. Reflecting on Luce Irigaray's thought, the author describes hom(m)o-sexual society with the use of the concepts of sameness and specula(risa)tion. He also shows how the exchange of women plays a constitutive role in creating an illusion of change and movement, and how it enables male-male relations in the homogeneous, identical male community. The author develops this approach by referring to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's concept of homosocial desire. In the phallic economy, men desire women only indirectly, and the latter serve as vehicles between men. In such a society a woman is located outside the symbolic order, or becomes an object of exchange, a currency or commodity. She is a mirror (speculum) which enables the male subject to look at himself and his desires, having no reflection or representation of herself. Therefore, following Irigaray, the author attempts to show the possibility of a different subjectivity from the one built on the rule of sameness. The French philosopher finds the cause of the lack of difference in the symbolic murder of the mother, which was committed in the history of European philosophy and which laid foundations for logocentrism.

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APORIE PODPISU: OPAKOVÁNÍ NEOPAKOVATELNÉHO U DERRIDY A DELEUZE

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Fišerová M.

Filozofia (Philosophy)

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2016

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vol. 71

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issue 6

450 – 461

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The paper questions the possibility of keeping the legal conception of signature as a constant and repeatable style of handwriting. By comparing double Derrida’s and Deleuze’s ontological semiotics, the author observes that while both thinkers agree that no writer is able to reach identity by repeating his/her traces, they disagree on the reason of this claim. In Derrida, signature is just an aporetical request of the law: in order to confirm our civil identity, we are obliged to repeat manually a trace that can’t be repeated manually. In Deleuze, repetition doesn’t produce identity, but difference: in every signing, the writer is becoming a signature. His/her handwriting is every time shaped by a singular affect, which alternates his/her previous traces. Contrary to Derrida, Deleuze admits a consistence of the author’s style, which is a sign of his continuous affective becoming, becoming-a-name, becoming-a-line.

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The Coloniality of Perception: the Other as a Cannibal

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Kubiaczyk F.

Studia Europaea Gnesnensia

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2013

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issue 7

7-31

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The article analyses the way in which Western ethnocentrism perceives the otherness revealed through the ‘discovery’ of the New World. One of the first neologisms to be coined by the expansion in the New Worldis the word “cannibal” which, as a cultural trope establishes the manner of understanding Others. Therefore, in the history of Latin American culture, cannibal should be rather associated with thinking and notions than with eating. The figure of the cannibal became one of the most obsessive and recurrent topes of Latin America, which dominated the colonial discourse about the Other. Although at the beginning of the conquest „cannibal” was employed with regard to the natives due to their barbarity, with the advance of colonisation the term began to denote Indians who resisted colonisation on the areas where workforce was in short supply. Thus the matter of cannibalism is less and less an issue related to the consumption of human flesh by Indians, and more and more a consumption of the workforce by the encomenderos. The testimony of such Europeans as Hans Staden, André Thevet and Jean de Léry, who spend some time among the Brazilian Tupinamba Indians in the latter half of the 16th century, prove that the ways in which cannibalism was presented have little to do with pure ethnography, whereas the expansion of the European trade capitalism becomes the core context. The relations of those travellers make a distinction between tribes considered to be allies, whose anthropophagy is presented as ritual, and the hostile tribes from outside the trade, whose cannibalism is motivated by sheer pleasure of eating human flesh. In the early 19th century, when the Latin American countries gained independence, the cannibal trope is still present in the reality of the continent, albeit in a mutated form. In the 20th century the cannibal trope is replaced by the metaphor of Kaliban, which symbolizes that which is Latin American.

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The article analyses the way in which Western ethnocentrism perceives the otherness revealed through the ‘discovery’ of the New World. One of the first neologisms to be coined by the expansion in the New Worldis the word “cannibal” which, as a cultural trope establishes the manner of understanding Others. Therefore, in the history of Latin American culture, cannibal should be rather associated with thinking and notions than with eating. The figure of the cannibal became one of the most obsessive and recurrent topes of Latin America, which dominated the colonial discourse about the Other. Although at the beginning of the conquest „cannibal” was employed with regard to the natives due to their barbarity, with the advance of colonisation the term began to denote Indians who resisted colonisation on the areas where workforce was in short supply. Thus the matter of cannibalism is less and less an issue related to the consumption of human flesh by Indians, and more and more a consumption of the workforce by the encomenderos. The testimony of such Europeans as Hans Staden, André Thevet and Jean de Léry, who spend some time among the Brazilian Tupinamba Indians in the latter half of the 16th century, prove that the ways in which cannibalism was presented have little to do with pure ethnography, whereas the expansion of the European trade capitalism becomes the core context. The relations of those travellers make a distinction between tribes considered to be allies, whose anthropophagy is presented as ritual, and the hostile tribes from outside the trade, whose cannibalism is motivated by sheer pleasure of eating human flesh. In the early 19th century, when the Latin American countries gained independence, the cannibal trope is still present in the reality of the continent, albeit in a mutated form. In the 20th century the cannibal trope is replaced by the metaphor of Kaliban, which symbolizes that which is Latin American.

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TOTALITARIANISM INDEXES AND POP-CULTURAL INTERVENTIONS IN SLOVAK FEATURE FILM. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CONTEMPORARY ART MEDIALITY (Indexy totalitarizmu a pop-kulturne intervencie v slovenskom hranom filme. Prispevok k medialite sucasneho umenia)

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Pastekova J.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2011

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vol. 58

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issue 2

105-117

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The study is concerned with images of totalitarianism in Slovak feature film after the year 1989. It monitors the level of social criticism in the1970s and 1980s film against the background of historical, economic and political context and provides examples of banned and censored films. The author raises a question whether the Slovak film paradigm of totalitarianism representations has changed after the year 1989. She seeks the answer using Peirce triad typology. It enables her to identify three specific forms of the totalitarianism legacy discourse: the iconic variant, which is based on reviving a particular experience, the symbolic variant, inspired by the memory and headed for the future and the index variant, revealing the causal relationship between the past and the presence. The iconic variant includes the biggest number of films, which are represented by the collective past stories and dominated at the turn of the decade and in the first half of the 1990s. (The Right For The Past, Sitting On A Branch I Am Fine, Better To Be Rich And Healthy Than Poor And Sick, The Camp Of Fallen Women, When The Stars Were Red). The symbolic variant is associated with the expressive gesture of an emotional protest (See You In Hell, My Friends!, Rivers of Babylon). In the author's opinion, the best reflection is given by the index variant, containing a correlation, allowing the past-presence juxtaposition (Private Lives, Tenderness, The City of the Sun, Mosquitoes' Tango). With regard to the current economic possibilities and value preferences, it is most desired together with a genre (Music).

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