Phenomenology, Practice, and Action: Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe: Relativity of Taste without Relativism. An Introduction to Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience

The author explores Ingarden’s aesthetics taking as a leading thread his repeated attempts at a refutation of the common locus of relativity of taste. Ingarden’s position is summarized in four theses: (1) values do exist...

Sprawozdania i recenzje: Wojna w Biblii i na starożytnym Bliskim Wschodzie (Warfare, ritual, and symbol in biblical and modern contexts, eds. B.E. Kelle, F. Ritchel Ames, J.L. Wright, Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta 2014 („Ancient Israel and its literature”, no. 18), ss. 308)

Narrative identity: Establishing of the subject in a radical phenomenology of Michel Henry

Hermeneutics as it is widely understood – (hermeneutics of P. Ricoeur, M. Heidegger,H. Gadamer or the specific hermeneutics of M. Foucault) – is a strategy that effectivelyallows avoidance of a trap as set by binding the...

CULTURE: ‘Little Stabilization’ of Sociology – the Sociology of Culture as a Regulated Subdiscipline

The article attempts to make a contribution to the history of one of the sociological subdisciplines, namely the sociology of culture. We have discussed here the period, known in Poland as “little stabilization” (1958‒19...

MUSIC AND MORALITY: “Particularly protected” – a contribution to the history of Nazi patronage over German music

The paper describes the process of the development of Nazi policy towards the artisticcircles related to music. The growth of the Third Reich and the rising power of the German army was accompanied with the protection of...