This article presents migrant's situation in integration Europe in social - cultural context. It pays bigger attention on aspect of the multicultural and the category of 'otherness', and exactly on the interventions, which have to contribute to common, better functioning of groups from minority. It treats to the 'taming the otherness', that is different kind of processes, mechanisms and the workings which concern functioning in multicultural society, and they shape on different levels of political and social life. For example on level of working of European Union's power organs, governments of individual states, non - governmental organizations, and first of all in space of local community life. Those processes, mechanisms and workings have the target to approximate and understand 'the painting of Different' and his life style to the occupants of European Union, and as a consequence of this - better functioning the society of whole Commonwealth. The cultural factor is introduced as possessing the first-class meaning in general process of European integration.
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The aim of the paper is to present Alain Finkielkraut’s work as rooted in philosophical thinking of Emmanuel Lévinas and Hannah Arendt. For this purpose authors emphasize the relationship between Finkielkraut’s analysis of the crisis of contemporary culture and his interpretation of Lévinas’s philosophical thought, as well as with Arendt’s. Authors focus on main concepts developed by Arendt and L´evinas, which, as they argue, became essential for Finkielkraut’s critical approach: otherness, responsibility, justice, understanding of politics, and public sphere. Authors argue also that Finkielkraut’s imaginative readings of Lévinas and Arendt are not only an important contribution to understanding of both thinkers but also testify to the originality of his work.
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The paper presents a non-conventional approach to non-participation in survey-respondents' behaviour. The topic of the analysis is the attitudes to certain minorities in the population - sexual minorities, people with body and mental handicap. These sexual and bodily forms of otherness are being discussed in the conceptual framework of cultural and intimate citizenship. Empirical data indicate a significantly higher incidence of respondents' refusal to answer questions concerning conditions, chances and needs of citizens with above mentioned otherness - as compared to assessing conditions of other minorities; simultaneously, claims for help from the society are significantly less acknowledged for these groups. A demographic profile of the most frequently 'refusing' respondents is characteristic by certain education, age and residence size. Results are discussed in the context of the overall value-background in Slovakia, its political development, and current discourses on sexual and bodily otherness.
The paper is focused on the social facets of the creativity that were investigated in CEVIT studies. The term positive deviance is applied in considerations of a) creativity in the interpersonal contents and processes, b) dilemmas of creator's otherness and motivation, and c) creativity little and creativity big. The analysis of the benefits and costs of creativity is related to the contents that were either designed by researcher or inferred from the participants' reports. The concept of little and big creativity which is introduced within the frame of dynamic model of creativity and its implications for value-led research of creativity is considered.
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This paper traces the development of British conceptualization of the European space by analyzing three anthropological or travel-writing works that represent three distinct periods in the history of the relationship between Britain and Eastern Europe: the Victorian era, the Cold War period, and the post-Cold War present. The aim of the paper is not to evaluate the anthropological validity of these works, which would be outside of the authoress's expertise. Taking Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) as its main theoretical reference, the study explores the degrees and kinds of orientalism present in the language of these works. The paper concludes by reflecting on the power embedded in the language of some EU documents, speeches and media releases concerned with the EU enlargement after the end of the Cold War.
The article has to do with the issue of war and violence in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas. According to him war is not only a traumatic historical event, but also a peculiar ontological state resulting from the peculiar way of thinking of Europeans. He considers how war is connected with the notions of whole, identity, and objectivity, why history is at fault, and why the only solution is eschatology, which challenges individuals and calls them to responsibility. The relationship between war and morality is at the center of the thought of Levinas. He sensitizes the reader to the fact that war is always a latent possibility, a constant hidden threat, always unexpected. War, as well as violence and force broadly understood, always change the world order, and with it accepted principles, rules, and values. It is an event that seeks to eliminate otherness, that tends to a uniform whole by leveling differences. Pluralism must give way to the totalizing aspirations of war.
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