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Różnica, która boli. Fenomenologiczny aspekt nierówności społecznych w kontekście procesów tożsamościowych

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Leszniewski T.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2015

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issue 1(107)

34-53

EN

The article presents problem of social difference and the related mechanisms of exclusion. The paper shows the process how the difference needed in the world is born inequality, discrimination, human suffering, often as unwanted and unintended consequences of group processes. The factor differentiating way to experience the social difference and forms of engagement in reality, is the human identity. The text presents the arguments in favor of the thesis that the difference does not necessarily lead to inequality, and a key role in this process is the identity of the man, with his basic need of recognition. Educational activities are considered an important factor in institutional support in this process. Also shows the process of individualization (the problem of individualism) in the social world as an essential factor in the offending unfavorable balance between an inclusion and social exclusion.

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Desire for the other and the Iterable Identity in the Social Context: A Postmodern Reading of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire

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Hooti N., Salehi A.

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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2014

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vol. 11

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issue 1

86-97

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In postmodern outlook, the boundary between the different divisions made inside the mind is blurred. It is the Other of one’s self that indirectly defines the identity of a character or makes it abject. The purpose of this study is to recognize the adjustment identity of Blanche in “The Streetcar Named Desire” in diverse social contexts. The identity of Blanche is under surveillance through some key elements in the postmodern bedrock. The chains of signifiers that are produced by the considered character distinguish the mayhem of the mind that is trying to find a new identity in the altered social context. The study aims to unravel the desire for the Other or the hidden alter that is trying to adapt itself to the new environment while the character is unraveled as abject for the others in the special context. The dangling state of Blanche’s mind is exposed through multiple features of the concepts to embody the blurring border between the Other and the self.

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Do We Need a New Nathan the Wise?

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Klug B.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2021

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issue 3

233-248

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s “dramatic poem” Nathan the Wise (1779) stood out at the time because it showed a Jew, Nathan, in a good light—a better light than the average Christian. Nathan is presented as a figure of wisdom largely on account of his approach to religious difference, especially among the religions represented by the three main protagonists: the Sultan Saladin (Islam), the Knight Templar (Christianity) and Nathan himself (Judaism). In the context of the conflicts of early modern Europe, his message—on the nature of religious difference and the need for toleration—might well seem to earn him the epithet “wise.” This message, which is also the message of the play as a whole, is reinforced by the fact that it is a Jew who delivers it. But, on closer examination, is he the person that at first sight he appears to be? Furthermore, if he were teleported to the here and now, would his take on difference and toleration have enough heft? The essay interrogates the figure of Nathan and answers both questions in the negative. It argues that we need a new Nathan for our globalised, post-colonial, postShoah world: a Nathan who is wise in a different fashion.

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Qualitätsbewertung einer Übersetzung – von der Ontologie zur Axiologie

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Kubaszczyk J.

Glottodidactica

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2017

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vol. 44

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issue 1

56-75

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The subject of the paper is intersubjectivity and verifiability of judgments about the quality of translation. Criteria for identification of a text to be a translation and possibilities of assessing the value of translation based on the classic triad of truth, goodness and beauty are discussed. The starting point for the axiological assessment is the ontic structure of the original. It is shown how a type of relationship between the original and the translation impacts on the assessment of translation.

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Production and Transnational Transfer of the Language of Difference: The Effects of Polish Migrants’ Encounters with Superdiversity

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Gawlewicz A.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2015

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vol. 4

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issue 2

25-42

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While Polish migration to the UK has attracted much academic attention, there has been less discussion about the consequences of Polish migrants’ encounters with difference in socially diverse UK contexts. In particular, relatively little has been written about how Polish migrants describe or refer to ‘visible’ difference in terms of ethnicity, nationality, religion, class and gender. This reflects a broader tendency in migration studies to frequently overlook the production and transnational transfer of migrant language. In this article, I explore how Polish post-2004 migrants to the northern English city of Leeds produce ‘the language of difference’ and how this migrant language is passed on to non-migrants in Poland. I distinguish two types of language of difference – the language of stigma and the language of respect. I note that migrants construct both speech normativities through engaging with rhetoric exist- ing in the Polish and/or the UK context as well as through developing ‘migrant slang’ of difference. I further argue that the language of stigma and the language of respect are transferred to Poland via the agency of migrants. The article draws upon a broader study of Polish migrants’ values and attitudes towards difference and the circulation of ideas between these migrants and their family members and friends in Poland. It contributes to emerging debates on Polish migrants’ encounters with difference and social remittances between the UK and Poland.

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Repetition as a Path to Authentic Existence in Kierkegaard’s Work

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Pavlikova M., Tavilla I.

Journal of Education Culture and Society

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2023

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vol. 14

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issue 2

105-115

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Thesis. The aim of the paper is to interpret Kierkegaard's concept of repetition as a way of creating and experiencing authentic existence in an environment that is set up to repeat this same, inauthentic content of consciousness. Concept. Repetition is associated with determinism and represents social stagnation. Repetition creates the conditions for an inauthentic existence. The article offers an interpretation of Kierkegaard's concept of repetition, which is the repetition of another and produces authentic existence. Results and conclusions. Repetition automatically produces of the same. The repetition of one's choice of oneself is a process of creating spirit and individuality, which is a fundamental principle of authentic existence. Creating an authentic personality is one of the ways to solve the current crisis in society, which is associated with an inauthentic experience of existence, abdication of responsibility and repetition of lies. Cognitive value. The postmodern society associated with the use of the media is not the cause of social disorientation. It is a means that an individual uses to repeat the same. The social environment and magic themselves are not negative, the negative is the inauthentic attitude of a person to them.

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Categoria verbale del tempo. Uno studio contrastivo italiano-romeno

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Popa C. F.

Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies

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2020

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vol. 14

92-102

EN

In the analysis of grammatical terminology, we can identify a methodological description of the verbal category of tense common to both Italian and Romanian. That could be taken to account for the fact that these two languages feature the same main moods and tenses, but with some different nuances from the point of view of verbal or temporal aspect. Our study aims to present and analyse such differences between Italian and Romanian, with a major focus on those encountered in the verbal category of tense. The present paper is intended to view tense from the morphosyntactic vantage point (verbal tenses of the finite moods), with the lexical stance (adverbs, prepositional phrases) to be documented in subsequent research.

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Podobny w inności i inny w podobieństwie – rzecz o spotkaniu innego w ujęciu Józefa Tischnera

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Mizdrak I.

Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej

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2014

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issue 7

57-71

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Otherness is encountered, noticed and, as the case may be, analyzed in a relation, because it is in a relation that the identity of I and the identity of You is revealed, and our identity is basically rooted in the individual constitution of a specific I and a specific You. The aim of the present study is to probe the phenomenon of otherness (alterity), and through it the fundamental question of who is the other we encounter, and next to show the main ways of experiencing the encounter with the other, whichalways occurs in the sphere of good and evil. In Józef Tischner’s view the experience of the other is a fundamental one, in that it reveals much of our own self-experience. My encounter with the other also throws into relief myself as the other and the fact that his otherness is different from mine. In the beginning of this discovery of otherness, the gap between I and You appears to be unbridgeable. But Tischner believes that the sensation of separateness and even of “being alien” assumes a kind of similarity,with the proviso that the latter occurs on the plane of our mutual being foreach other. Tischner stresses otherness in similarity and similarity in otherness, both constituted and coexistent in the relation between I and You. Tischner’s idea involves a paradox: to open oneself to the alterity of the other, we have in a way to “bear” our own otherness and thereby to come to be “for the other”.

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Odkrywanie przez rodziców adopcyjnych i zastępczych odmienności dziecka wynikającej z niepełnosprawności. Studium fenomenograficzne

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Ćwirynkało K., Bartnikowska U.

Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej

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2017

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issue 19

11-33

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A certain percentage of disabled children are not raised in their biological families. It happens more and more often that the place of residence of such a child is not an institution but the adoptive or foster family. Increased prevalence of this type of families makes the study of this area of functioning of children with disabilities more and more important. The paper covers the issue of dealing with a child’s difference by their adoptive/foster parents. The difference has its source e. g. in a disability. The empirical part of the article is the result of qualitative research conducted with parents from 20 adoptive/foster families that raise a child with a disability (this is a part of a broader research project conducted by the authors with these families). The analysis of the interviews shows the ways to discover the otherness, the difference of the child, the ways to accept this otherness, and the importance they ascribe to the otherness of the child.

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Dylematy terapeutycznej wielokulturowości. Pomiędzy swojskością a innością

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Teusz G.

Kultura-Społeczeństwo-Edukacja

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2016

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vol. 10

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issue 2

181-190

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The article is an attempt to analyze the phenomenon of multiculturalism and the issues to accompany in the context of building and achieving human identity. The main emphasis is placed on presenting the psychosocial dimension of constructing identity and its interactive character. Social identity is the other essential part of the issue next to individual identity. The objects of the author’s attention here are therapeutic implications and dilemmas presented in the context of multiculturalism.

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„Inny” w klasie szkolnej

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Muszyńska E.

Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej

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2015

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issue 9

9-25

EN

The article features a description and an analysis of the ‘other’ in the classroom – i.e. a student who differs (significantly) from their peers through, for example, a distinct personality trait, behavior, looks, background or religion. It also demonstrates how a classroom and the ‘other’, function in terms of their mutual dependencies. Finally, the article discusses effective educational methods designed for a classroom, where the ‘other’ is present.

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The Hegelian Phenomenological Exposition of the Problem of Social Identity: A Theoretical Framework for Managing Difference in Multi-Ethnic Societies

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Adekeye D. O.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2018

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issue 2

159-175

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The process of constructing a social reality where “difference” becomes a social asset rather than a monster that threatens peace and progress must commence with a phenomenological understanding of social interactions within and among human societies. In my opinion, Hegel, more than any other thinker, has constructed a phenomenological framework that adequately captures and represents the nature of group interactions within human societies. This paper explores the Hegelian phenomenon of social identity, and, especially, characterizes the interactions between and among various social identities. It is a modest effort to contribute theoretically to the available discourse on the management of “difference” in multi-ethnic societies.

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Zróżnicowanie wyznaniowe stylu religijnego. Analiza na podstawie polskich modlitw ewangelickich, katolickich i prawosławnych

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PAWLIKOWSKA A.

Stylistyka

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2013

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vol. 22

365-381

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The paper is about confessional differences in Polish religious style. In Polish linguistics there is interest in religious communication, but most of the research applies only to Catholic texts. Besides Catholicism, there are many various Christian and non-Christianreligious communities which should be analyzed. The basis for the analysis were prayers of Polish Catholicism, Lutheranism and Orthodoxy. These are three biggest religious communities in Poland. Very important were he structural, pragmatic and cognitive aspects of texts. The method of the analysis was statistics. The statistical analysis showed that there are a lot of differences, especially inthe lexis and pragmatics of prayers, like creation of God and man, speech acts, entropy and redundancy, lexical fields, etc. All of these are determined by theological and ideological rules of the confessions. But it is important to remember that all the texts are still a realization of one style.

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Opposition and Truth: Parmenides’ Enigmatic Way

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Tarca L. V.

Peitho. Examina Antiqua

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2013

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vol. 4

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issue 1

105-124

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In Parmenides’ B 8 37–41, we find a question that raises a difficult problem: how can Parmenides handle the opposition between “being and not” (i.e. being and not being) in the same way as the oppositions which characterize the mortals’ opinions? This question is especially relevant for answering the following theoretical question: how do we to treat the fundamental philosophical question of oppositions at large? To answer these question we need to reinterpret some major points of Parmenides’ thought: the second part of his poem, but also the identification of πέλειν and εἶναι in B 6 8, as well as other passages of the poem. But, above all, the question makes us introduce some distinctions within the concept of negation and, consequently, between difference and negation. This allows us to distinguish the affirmation of the truth of being from the negation of the negation of being (i.e. the negation of nonbeing). This distinction has a major philosophical relevance, as can be seen by referring it to such thinkers as Plato, Hegel and Heidegger.

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In Parmenides’ B 8 37–41, we find a question that raises a difficult problem: how can Parmenides handle the opposition between “being and not” (i.e. being and not being) in the same way as the oppositions which characterize the mortals’ opinions? This question is especially relevant for answering the following theoretical question: how do we to treat the fundamental philosophical question of oppositions at large? To answer these question we need to reinterpret some major points of Parmenides’ thought: the second part of his poem, but also the identification of πέλειν and εἶναι in B 6 8, as well as other passages of the poem. But, above all, the question makes us introduce some distinctions within the concept of negation and, consequently, between difference and negation. This allows us to distinguish the affirmation of the truth of being from the negation of the negation of being (i.e. the negation of nonbeing). This distinction has a major philosophical relevance, as can be seen by referring it to such thinkers as Plato, Hegel and Heidegger.

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Value of an Encounter from an Ethical Perspective

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Najder-Stefaniak K.

Ethics in Progress

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2014

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vol. 5

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issue 1

113-122

EN

This article investigates the relationship between the possibilities of actualizing our encounters and the openness of human space. It describes various types of encounters and shows the correlations between the perception of difference and the inclination to contravene certain encounters. The effects of encounters based on antagonistic, complementary, dialectic, and synergistic thinking are explored in a way that helps to better understand the aims and consequences of encounters actualized in diverse frameworks of dialogue. Further, the impact of paradigms of reasoning on how the value of meetings is understood is described. The results of the modern perception of relationships in the subject-object scheme and in the ecosystem paradigm are presented. The latter allows for recognition that encounters can facilitate creative activity by expanding human space.

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On Philosophy of Barbara Skarga: An Approach to Get to Know Her Life and Work

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Bogaczyk-Vormayr M.

Ethics in Progress

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2018

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vol. 9

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issue 1

183-191

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Barbara Skarga (1919–2009) was one of the most important Polish Philosophers of 20th century. She was an expert in classical and contemporary French (e.g. Comte, Bergson, Lévinas) and German Philosophy (e.g. Kant, Hegel, Heidegger). In this paper I present some important biographical facts (participation in organized resistance in Vilnius, interments in Gulags) as well Skarga’s philosophical, mostly sociopolitical and ethical, ideas. I called its philosophical concept “philosophy of difference”.

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Seeking ‘the New Normal’? Troubled Spaces of Encountering Visible Differences in Warsaw

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Piekut A., Vieten U. M., Valentine G.

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2014

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vol. 188

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issue 4

541-558

EN

In times of globalisation and super-mobility, ideas of normality are in turmoil. In different societies in, across and beyond Europe, we face the challenge of undoing specific notions of normality and creating more inclusive societies with an open culture of learning to live with differences. The scope of the paper is to introduce some findings on encounters with difference and negotiations of social values in relation to a growing visibility of difference after 1989 in Poland, on the background of a critique of normality/normalisation and normalcy.On the basis of interviews conducted inWarsaw, we investigate how normality/normalisation discourses of visible homosexuality and physical disability are incorporated into individual self-reflections and justifications of prejudices (homophobia and disabilism). More specifically we argue that there are moments of ‚cultural transgressions’ present in everyday practices towards ‚visible’ sexual and (dis)ability difference.

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(Gesichts)züge, Notation and Graphicness of Signs. Deconstruction in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

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Piekarski M.

Studia Philosophiae Christianae

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2022

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vol. 58

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issue 2

145-160

EN

In this paper, I attempt to address some of the themes of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus logico-philosophicus with the aim of their deconstructionist interpretation. My analysis is based on David Gunkel’s book Deconstruction (MIT Press 2021). Based on some of its findings, I show how the Tractatus allows deconstruction and its practice to be thought. I show that the graphic structure of signs is crucial for the young Wittgenstein’s analysis and that it justifies the metaphysical findings in favor of which he argues.

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Le sens de l’altérité selon Simone de Beauvoir

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Ledwina A.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

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2020

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vol. 9

311-319

EN

In Simone de Beauvoir’s œuvre, the problem of love and the relationship with the Other turns out to be fundamental. The need to realize one’s own desires forces the individual to open for the Other who – instead of making the relationship more attractive – brings about its breakup. The Author raises this issue in terms of androgyny interpreted as a relationship between two people, which is possible only in the spheres of total freedom and reciprocity, both spiritual and sexual, revealing an inherent influence of other people on our lives.The texts by Beauvoir, whose idée fixe is a search for the wholeness, enable one to understand that otherness is also understood as a struggle to change the perception of femininity and of independence. The other also fascinates us by difference. It encourages one to get to know oneself, one’s possibilities and limitations, as well as one’s identity. By looking into the eyes of the other (like in a mirror) a person has an opportunity to create a new reality, thereby rejecting stereotypes and a traditional value system. Thus, finding a sense of life and realizing existing differences become possible.The multidimensionality of the concept of otherness enables the critic to present the writer’s original vision, propagating the individual development and autonomy, defined by relationships with others and, at the same time, by his or her pursuit of an existential fullness with another human being.

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Chinese University Students’ Beliefs about English Language Learning and Self-efficacy

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Liu M.

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

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2023

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vol. 9

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issue 1

1-25

EN

Learners’ beliefs on language learning and perceived self-efficacy are important to the success of their second/foreign language (SL/FL) learning. To reveal the general profiles of and relationship between Chinese students’ beliefs about English learning and self-efficacy, the present study examined beliefs about English learning and self-efficacy held by Chinese university EFL (English as a FL) learners at differing English proficiency levels. A total of 1,698 students from a top university in Beijing answered a battery of questionnaires. The results revealed a general overview of the students’ beliefs about the nature of language learning and the roles of teachers, feedback and learning strategies, and self-efficacy. Another major finding was that participants at different English proficiency levels differed significantly from one another in beliefs about language learning and self-efficacy.

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Różnica, która boli. Fenomenologiczny aspekt nierówności społecznych w kontekście procesów tożsamościowych

Desire for the other and the Iterable Identity in the Social Context: A Postmodern Reading of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire

Do We Need a New Nathan the Wise?

Qualitätsbewertung einer Übersetzung – von der Ontologie zur Axiologie

Production and Transnational Transfer of the Language of Difference: The Effects of Polish Migrants’ Encounters with Superdiversity

Repetition as a Path to Authentic Existence in Kierkegaard’s Work

Categoria verbale del tempo. Uno studio contrastivo italiano-romeno

Podobny w inności i inny w podobieństwie – rzecz o spotkaniu innego w ujęciu Józefa Tischnera

Odkrywanie przez rodziców adopcyjnych i zastępczych odmienności dziecka wynikającej z niepełnosprawności. Studium fenomenograficzne

Dylematy terapeutycznej wielokulturowości. Pomiędzy swojskością a innością

„Inny” w klasie szkolnej

The Hegelian Phenomenological Exposition of the Problem of Social Identity: A Theoretical Framework for Managing Difference in Multi-Ethnic Societies

Zróżnicowanie wyznaniowe stylu religijnego. Analiza na podstawie polskich modlitw ewangelickich, katolickich i prawosławnych

Opposition and Truth: Parmenides’ Enigmatic Way

Value of an Encounter from an Ethical Perspective

On Philosophy of Barbara Skarga: An Approach to Get to Know Her Life and Work

Seeking ‘the New Normal’? Troubled Spaces of Encountering Visible Differences in Warsaw

(Gesichts)züge, Notation and Graphicness of Signs. Deconstruction in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

Le sens de l’altérité selon Simone de Beauvoir

Chinese University Students’ Beliefs about English Language Learning and Self-efficacy