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Farewell to Anarchy : The Myth of International Anarchy and Birth of Anarcophilia in International Relations

2018

This article scrutinizes the conceptual history of international anarchy. The argument purported here is that even though the idea of international anarchy is often seen as very central for the academic discipline of international relations, the concept is in fact not found from the forerunners or classics of the discipline. The assumption of international anarchy is commonly seen as a defining feature of a Realist school of international relations. Yet, the concept and especially its “Realist” implications are not to be found in the classics of Realism, from Thucydides, Machiavelli or Hobbes. The idea of “international anarchy” emerges quite tentatively during the First World War, in the w…

Mīts par Tristānu un Izoldi 20.gs. pirmās puses krievu literatūras kontekstā

2014

Anotācija Promocijas darbā pētīta Tristana un Izoldes mīta recepcija 20. gadsimta pirmās puses krievu kultūrā. Darbā apkopoti un analizēti poētiskie teksti (vairāk nekā 25), kas veidojuši Tristana un Izoldes sižeta konceptuāli vienoto krievisko invariantu. Īpaša uzmanība pievērsta divām galvenajām problēmām: pieprasījumam pēc šī sižeta 19.gadsimta beigas un 20.gadsimta sakuma krievu kultūrā un leģendas avotu, svarīgu krievu sabiedrībai, noskaidrošanai. Pētījums atklāj, ka šī mīta recepcija krievu kultūrā ir sarežģīts un heterogēns process, kam par impulsu kalpojuši krievu autoru personiskie kontakti ar Vāgneru, neomītisma ietvarā aktualizētā interese par pagājušo laikmetu literatūru, kā arī…

Religious Diaspora: A New Approach to Its Existence and Meaning

2021

The present study aims to contribute to the discussion regarding the possibility of conceptualizing a religious diaspora. It proposes a new way of defining it, namely in relation to religious and not to ethno-territorial realities, but without editing the territorial dimension out. After sketching the definition on this theoretical basis, the study refers to six case studies, pointing to the way in which the definitory traits of a religious diaspora are actualized in each situation under study. The evaluation unravels the strengths of the concept as well as certain aspects that still need to be addressed in further research. The inference is that the capacity of religion to generate diaspor…

Imagery and Religious Conversion. The Symbolic Function of Jonah 1:13

2018

Jonah 1:13 has a delaying function in the narrative, introducing a pause between Jonah’s demand to be thrown in the sea (1:12) and the event’s occurrence (1:15). Most commentators discuss only the events of 1:13 and their causes. In this article, I suggest an interpretation of Jonah 1:13 based on the imagery of the narrative. An analysis of the use of metaphors and symbols does not replace the message of the verse; such an analysis simply augments it with motives of the seamen’s conversion. Beside the narrative level, there is a hidden level suggesting a deeper understanding of the story where symbols and metaphors have a consolidating function. Distance, directions, and movement in Jonah 1…

The mythical mother : representation of motherhood in the television series The Simpsons

2006

rec. Doralice Fabiano, Senza Paradiso. Miti e credenze sull’aldilà greco

2020

review of Doralice Fabiano, Senza Paradiso. Miti e credenze sull’aldilà greco

Tra calunnia e inganno: strategia della parola nella Fedra di Seneca

2013

Il comportamento comunicativo di Fedra crea un corto circuito da cui si sprigiona il pathos del dramma senecano. Nel tessuto tragico confluiscono infatti aspetti della comunicazione quali la manipolazione, l’inganno e la calunnia che mediano il trapasso fra passione e menzogna degradando il portato metaforico della protagonista. Nucleo e vettore di propulsione della struttura drammatica della Phaedra di Seneca è infatti la potenza della parola che svela e nasconde fra trasparenza e indecifrabilità sottraendosi alla chiarezza della verità per farsi sottile strumento di menzogna. Phedra's communicative behaviour creates a short circuit from which the pathos of Seneca drama emanates through so…

Educate to coexist with the flood risk

2020

In the Mediterranean region, floods are the main natural risk. This hazard has been aggravated in recent decades by the increase in exposure of the human being and is expected to increase the danger according to the forecast of climate change scenarios. For this reason, dealing with these issues in the classroom and the training of teachers on this subject should be a priority, as established in the curriculum of Primary Education (Social Sciences). The objectives of this research are: 1) To analyze the knowledge that future teachers have about the risk of flooding to develop these contents in the classroom; 2) Check the relevance that they give to this social-environmental problem; and 3) …

Dramat - teatr - mit : "Oblubienica z Messyny" Friedricha Schillera w kręgu mitotwórczych projektów romantyzmu

2016

Friedrich Schiller’s tragedy, "Braut von Messina", being a project of a new tragedy form and the plot structure modelled on the mythic story of Oedipus’s family, is usually placed in the developmental seąuence of the genres of Schicksalstragodie and Jambentragodie. Yet, the ostentatious condensation and muddling of the motives of the Oedipus myth in the plot calls for the use of the chronologically close categories of romantic irony and romantic myth-making, and subseąuently, for asking a ąuestion concerning the intention of establishing the mythical world by means of a ritual performed with the use of theatrical measures.

The myth of cognitive agency: subpersonal thinking as a cyclically recurring loss of mental autonomy

2018

This metatheoretical paper investigates mind wandering from the perspective of philosophy of mind. It has two central claims. The first is that, on a conceptual level, mind wandering can be fruitfully described as a specific form of mental autonomy loss. The second is that, given empirical constraints, most of what we call “conscious thought” is better analyzed as a subpersonal process that more often than not lacks crucial properties traditionally taken to be the hallmark of personal-level cognition - such as mental agency, explicit, consciously experienced goal-directedness, or availability for veto control. I claim that for roughly two thirds of our conscious life-time we do not possess …