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Barthes. Szaleństwo Gradivy

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Ryziński R.

Prosopon. Europejskie Studia Społeczno-Humanistyczne

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2011

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issue 1(1)

33-36

EN

Gradiva is equivalent of love, an image of love, one which is not only an element of imagination, but also enters into what is real. In other words: the image becomes the reali- ty for a moment. Perversion finds its place. The only possible love, says Barthes, is the impossible love. When someone loved is not available but exists as an image and as the image can last forever. The love-desire is always in mad relation with what’s impossible. But this madness is real in the unreal world of not-being together.

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Le silence des fous chez Zola et Maupassant

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Kaczmarek-Wiśniewska A.

Quêtes littéraires

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2017

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issue 7

73-81

EN

It is difficult to define all the meanings and connotations of silence depicted in literary works. In the 19th century, where the Realism and the Naturalism paid much attention to the study of both physical and mental illnesses, silence was considered as one of the distinctive signs of madness. The paper analyzes four examples of this phenomenon in selected Zola’s and Maupassant’s texts (novels and short stories) whose characters, all mad or maniac, embody various aspects of the silence regarded as a pathological condition of a human being.

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Heterotopy of the hysterical body

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Mackiewicz W., Barański J.

Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny Hybris

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2021

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vol. 53

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issue 2

1-29

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Heterotopia is the space of otherness, a counter-space. A very specific type of heterotopia is a human’s body, especially in its illness and sickness. Hysteria, the disease which can imitate many other diseases, is here a crucial example. From its ancient beginnings until today hysteria makes us reflect on the essence of illness and disease, on the definition of the human condition, on the social role of a healthy and ill human body, etc. The archeology of hysteria explains how disorders shape medical standards.

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Antonin Artaud ou l’absence à soi-même et l’expérience du vide

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Rougé D.

Quêtes littéraires

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2011

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issue 1

48-58

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Concerning Antonin Artaud it has been question of some lack of work but in the article we propose to the reading we are talking about another kind of absence. Indeed, in his correspondence and in the writings of his youth, the poet was complaining to be absent to himself. He was saying that words could not convey what he felt, that he had the impression to be a spectator of himself. Over time, he will say that he was feeling some emptiness in him. Is it to fill this emptiness that he spent his time writing on notebooks and that he had replaced speaking by screaming? As a conclusion to this article, we spend some time thinking about the concepts of absence and emptiness, following some writings of Pierre Fédida.

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Opera – między opresją a emancypacją kobiet

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Bogucki M.

Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna

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2020

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issue 157-158

1-22

EN

The article analyses opera as a place which generates unhealthy excitement in men while being dangerous for women. This is the central theme of Opera, a horror directed by the Italian master of the genre, Dario Argento. The film, which tells the story of a young singer stalked by a madman, may be interpreted as a metaphor for the conservative sexual politics of the opera house. Argento’s work is an excellent introduction to the discussion that swept across American musicology in the early 1990s, about the gender analysis of European musical culture; a discussion that can be summarised in the question: is the opera house a place where women are oppressed or, on the contrary, is it a space for their emancipation?

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The Madness Narrative, Between the Literary, the Therapeutic and the Political

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Viusenco A.-L.

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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2013

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vol. 10

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issue 1

312-323

EN

The present paper discusses the types, functions and limitations of the madness narrative, a particular type of text dealing with a popular research topic: mental instability, within the larger contexts of women’s autobiographical writing and illness-based writing. The overview aims to provide the theoretical framework necessary for the further analysis of specific madness narratives.

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Szaleństwo, taniec, spektakl. Anomalie kobiecości w Balu wariatek w Salpêtrière Gabrieli Zapolskiej

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Nowicka D.

Prace Literaturoznawcze

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2018

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issue 6

115-124

EN

This article focuses on the central motif of female madness in Gabriela Zapolska’s Madwomen’sBall in Salpêtrière from the year 1892. It aims to present the uniqueness of feminine perspective andthe way in which observations are recorded after the meeting with untypical heroines. The presentationof individual patients as well as the reality of the psychiatric hospital help to depict moral andethical issues connected with the incidents described in the text. The motifs of dance and madnessare seen as elements of female emancipation in Zapolska’s shocking essay and allow for presentingthe double discrimination of disordered women in the 19th century.

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Il femminile in Carmine Abate

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KARP K.

Planeta Literatur. Journal of Global Literary Studies

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2015

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issue 1. Trans-Adriatic. Fluxes, diasporas and displaced cartographies between Italian and Balkan Peninsula

21-33

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Nel panorama della letteratura italiana contemporanea Carmine Abate (1954), occupa una posizione rilevante. Nel 2012 l’autore è stato vincitore del prestigioso Premio Campiello, assegnatogli per il romanzo La collina del vento (2012). Abate, di origine arbëresh, cioè italo-albanese, viene al mondo in un villaggio calabrese chiamato Carfizzi, in cui vivono tuttora i discendenti degli albanesi fuggiti in Italia dall’oppressione turca nei tempi medievali. A quanto pare si potrebbe azzardare l’ipotesi che il carattere ibrido della cultura in cui cresce, fortemente influenzata dalle radici albanesi, faccia sì che la sua produzione sia tematicamente compatta. In essa campeggiano alcune strutture utilizzate in modo ripetitivo che la rendono omogenea: l’emigrazione, il problema dell’identità, la questione della lingua, il viaggio, l’immagine del paese albanese ancorato fra presente e passato. Tra altri motivi significativi che caratterizzano la sua scrittura occorre non dimenticare quello del femminile. Per averne la visione più ricca possibile si è scelto di analizzarlo nell’ottica dell’atteggiamento di varie protagoniste abatiane verso la cultura, in quanto proprio il concetto di cultura costituisce il perno della poetica dell’autore. Esso, di carattere pluridimensionale, si dimostra un mezzo metodologico adatto per scorgere il quadro del femminile delineato nelle opere abatiane.

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Szaleństwo i literatura. O Dziennikach Stefana Żeromskiego w perspektywie afektywnej

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Chyła K.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2021

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issue 35

155-176

EN

Using the tools offered by affect theory, this article aims to present the theme of madness, its numerous incarnations and transformations in the text of the diaries that Stefan Żeromski left behind. Madness is depicted here as a phenomenon defying any kind of unambiguity; it can be anything from a secret of nature to be deciphered, through a creative frenzy of inspiration, to a state of apathy, sometimes interwoven with sudden ecstasy, triggered by the chronic hunger that Żeromski suffered as a young man, in other words: during his diarist period.

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Descartes, Foucault, Derrida

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Karel K.

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)

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2010

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vol. 58

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issue 2

171-202

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The article offers a detailed interpretation of Foucault’s and Derrida’s readings of the passages about madness and dreaming in Descartes’ First Meditation. The article begins by focusing on Descartes’ text and Foucault’s original reading of it in his History of Madness, a reading clearly determined by the overall direction of Foucault’s first great book. It then inquires into Derrida’s criticism of Foucault in “Cogito and the History of Madness”, and shows how Foucault, in his rejoinder, „My Body, This Paper, This Fire“, subtly changes his original line of interpretation. In fact, Foucault’s new reading, strongly emphasising the meditative dimension of Descartes’ text, directly anticipates the key issues treated by Foucault in his final period. As for Derrida’s dialogical approach to Descartes’ Meditation, the article submits that it may have been directly influenced by a passage on dreaming from Descartes’ later Search for Truth. Besides these particular points and some further detailed analyses, the article summarises the wider implications of the dispute for our understanding of the philosophical positions of both thinkers.

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La visione di mania umana e divina in Platone (The concept of divine and human “mania” in the Platonic dialogues)

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Głodowska A.

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae

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2013

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vol. 23

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issue 2

97-111

PL

In this article will be discussed the passages of the Platonic dialogues that give information about the way in which the philosopher understood the term “mania”. Particularly important is the reflection on this subject contained in Phaedrus in which different kinds of madness were distinguished and briefly characterized. Especially the essential is the concept of poetic inspiration because it takes an important place in Plato’s theoretical and literary thought. It had also a significant influence on shaping his opinions on the subject of poets and their work. The Plato’s term of poetic inspiration and connected with it the issues of literary output and its reception make the fundamental part of this article.

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Furiosa libido. Ovid on love and madness.

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Bielecka E.

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae

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2013

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vol. 23

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issue 2

141-151

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This paper presents Ovid’s views on the concept of love madness. Taking Ars amatoria, in particular the distich (1.281–282) in which the poet blames woman’s love fury on her lust as its research material, the paper investigates how the notion in question has been realized in this “textbook for lovers.” There, Ovid uses the mythological figures of women who committed crimes against social rules to illustrate the said concept; the paper, in turn, juxtaposes it with the narratives in Metamorphoses (the stories of Byblis and Myrrha). Additionally, it makes use of the tale of Iphis, a story not included in Ars amatoria which can nevertheless be also treated as illustrative of how madness can overcome enamored women. The paper both contrasts the above mentioned stories with the narratives showing men’s inclinations to insanity caused by passion and examines the notion of love madness in the context and with regard to the style of Ovid’s works.

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Diseases as causes of divorce in Byzantium

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Kourkouta L., Plati P., Adamou V., Spanopoulou A.

Progress in Health Sciences

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2011

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vol. 1

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issue 2

200-203

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Medical causes are also concerned to be causes of divorce in Christian Byzantium. These diseases included leprosy, madness and impotence of male, and they are studied in the present short historical article. In the cause of divorce for Madness, whilst the wife has to wait five years to seek divorce, the husband has to wait only three years. In the cause of divorce for Impotence of the male, the wife should wait for three years in case of recovery. In the cause of Leprosy, it seems that the disease was a cause of divorce only if it concerned the wife. With these laws, therefore, the Byzantine leaders protected not only the health of people but also society’s health in general.

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Slovenské verejné diskusie o médiách: analýza normativity diskutujúcich

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Profant T.

Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review

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2020

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vol. 56

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issue 5

639-663

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There have been a number of organised discussions about the media in Slovakia in recent times. This study analyses them to find answers to several research questions. One question is: who took part in the discussions about the media in the period this analysis focused on in 2018? Interviews with the organisers of these discussions offered a partial answer to the question of what kind of discursive strategies they used in determining the hegemonic discourse that emerges from these discussions. The article's theoretical starting point is Foucault's question about 'Who is speaking?' as an important element of the archaeology of knowledge. The analysis was conducted by counting the frequency of public normative official affiliations the guests and moderators had in the discussions and performing a qualitative content analysis of the interviews carried out with the organisers. The analysis revealed that most of the participants were politically centrist subjects from centrist parties, the liberal and conservative media, and non-governmental organisations critical of the extremes in the media landscape. The discursive strategies analysed included procedures of exclusion based on the distinction between reason and madness, media routine, and the valuing of objectivity and respect toward the deceased over balance. However, balance is still an acknowledged value and could become the basis for more plural discussions, given that the respondents claimed that they have no problem with differences of opinion.

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Bez zpěvu a bez zvonění. Tělo a duše sebevraha před vrchnostenskými soudy v předosvícenském období

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Tinková D.

Historie – Otázky – Problémy (History, Issues, Problems)

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2019

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vol. 11

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issue 1

146-163

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The paper investigates trials conducted against suicides by patrimonial courts in the Eggenberg/ Schwarzenberg and Czernin demesnes in South Bohemia in the pre-Enlightenment era (1675–1780). Primarily, it attempts to explain the gradual tendencies toward greater leniency over the period in question, and describes the strategies involved in this form of ‘decriminalization’, especially as regards broadening the exculpatory category of ‘melancholy/madness’. The paper also strives to analyze the attitudes of various social groups whose members were involved in the investigative proceedings and subsequent trials (town officials, patrimonial aristocracy, the appellate court in Prague, local clergy, the (arch)bishop’s consistory, but also the offender’s neighbors as witnesses), and demonstrate that the gradual decriminalization was a ‘vertical’ process which occurred from the top down: the patrimonial authorities tended to show the most leniency, whereas the offender’s neighbors were usually the most disapproving.

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Motyw szaleństwa w opowiadaniach Brunona Schulza. Studium psychologiczno-literackie

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Sienkiewicz B., Sienkiewicz-Wilowska J.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2013

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issue 22

175-196

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Representation of various modes, forms, symptoms and degrees of mental illnesses, frequent in The Street of Crocodiles, are analysed in two perspectives: psychological and literary-cultural. Using the tools of modern psychology, the article interprets the pathological symptoms of Touya, Maria, aunt Agatha, and various other characters, most importantly the advancing illness of father Joseph, who displays symptoms of schizophrenia. Schulz uses a language filled with metaphors, blurring the border between symptoms of illness and metaphors, between the imaginary and the real, and between health and illness, norm and pathology, between the human and the animal. Schulz’s representation of madness opposes the modern understanding, which is dominated by analytical, rationalist identification of an illness, related to a socially determined norm of mental health. It brings back the premodern quality to madness, which becomes a divine phenomenon, related to the pagan rite of fertility, to the “orgy of life” and Dionysian element, and to Freudian life drive. Dionysius and Freud meet in an area independent from the rules of culture and reason: the return to nature, including the nature in a human being. Here, madness becomes a “basic figure” and “the ultimate ur-schema”, as they belong to the unintellectual, basic, ecstatic sphere. This is related to the imperative of penetration of areas that threaten the “balance of the soul”, to address the topic that shows “the scar of removal”, and forces us to ask the question of limits of humanity.

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Bыбранные pусские и польские фразеологизмы, связанные с безумием и недостатком интеллекта (мотивационно-семантический аспект)

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Walczak M.

Linguistica Silesiana

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2018

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vol. 39

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Lady Audley’s Sphinxian Mystery?

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Raducanu A.

Gender Studies

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2012

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vol. 11

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issue 1

323-336

EN

The present study is based on the analysis of the themes of madness and monstrosity, depicted through the female character, in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s well-known Lady Audley’s Secret. It discusses the elusive nature of madness and monstrosity that may be perceived as attributes of reader, writer and characters alike; it also considers the possibility of ‘madness’ as subversive survival strategy and/or escape from narrow patriarchal, political, social and cultural confines

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Szalony protagonista Eurypidesowego „Orestesa” w komentarzach scholiastów

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Czerwińska J., Chiżyńska K.

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae

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2021

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vol. 31

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issue 1

63-78

EN

Madness is a constant motif in ancient literature. It was often used by playwrights, including the three greatest tragedians of the Classical Greece: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. One of the most interesting plays dealing with issues of madness is Euripidean Orestes. This play has received numerous commentaries written by scholiasts, who described all aspects of the state of mania. The article is devoted to the analysis of madness and the corpus of texts are scholia describing Orestes’ disease. Commentaries allow us to establish a definition of mania, show its sources and describe its various physical and mental symptoms. The material presented in the article shows how interesting the phenomenon of madness was for the scholiasts.

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Levinasovský „Ion“ (umenie a nereprezentovateľné)

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Karul R.

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)

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2014

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vol. 62

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issue 2, Special No: Za hranicemi tváře. Levinas a socialita

119-136

EN

The main aim of the paper is to find a non-mimetic understanding of art in proper Plato’s thought which is known exactly for his formulation of the concept of “mime-sis” in the dialogue Republic. The author of the contribution presumes to find the non-mimetic understanding also in the dialogue Ion, in which the creation of art is presented as madness from inspiration. Plato’s Ion can be understood with the aid of Levinas’s notion of alterity, as well as of how it disturbs knowledge. This broad scheme does not exhaust the possibilities of similarities between both of the philosophers, and it opens the way to clarify singularities: Plato’s notion of magnetism, the rest of Divini-ty in art-work, the Levinasian concept of trace, or the concept of ambiguity.

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Barthes. Szaleństwo Gradivy

Le silence des fous chez Zola et Maupassant

Heterotopy of the hysterical body

Antonin Artaud ou l’absence à soi-même et l’expérience du vide

Opera – między opresją a emancypacją kobiet

The Madness Narrative, Between the Literary, the Therapeutic and the Political

Szaleństwo, taniec, spektakl. Anomalie kobiecości w Balu wariatek w Salpêtrière Gabrieli Zapolskiej

Il femminile in Carmine Abate

Szaleństwo i literatura. O Dziennikach Stefana Żeromskiego w perspektywie afektywnej

Descartes, Foucault, Derrida

La visione di mania umana e divina in Platone (The concept of divine and human “mania” in the Platonic dialogues)

Furiosa libido. Ovid on love and madness.

Diseases as causes of divorce in Byzantium

Slovenské verejné diskusie o médiách: analýza normativity diskutujúcich

Bez zpěvu a bez zvonění. Tělo a duše sebevraha před vrchnostenskými soudy v předosvícenském období

Motyw szaleństwa w opowiadaniach Brunona Schulza. Studium psychologiczno-literackie

Bыбранные pусские и польские фразеологизмы, связанные с безумием и недостатком интеллекта (мотивационно-семантический аспект)

Lady Audley’s Sphinxian Mystery?

Szalony protagonista Eurypidesowego „Orestesa” w komentarzach scholiastów

Levinasovský „Ion“ (umenie a nereprezentovateľné)