Aleksandra Kunce
Prof. Aleksandra Łucja Kunce is an anthropologist in the Institute of Culture Studies at the University of Silesia, Katowice. Her research focuses on the power of emplacement and the philosophy of localness and home.
She is the author of the following books: "Tożsamość i postmodernizm" (Identity and Postmodernism, Warsaw: 2003); "Myśleć Śląsk" (Thinking Silesia, Katowice: 2007) co-authored with Zbigniew Kadłubek; "Antropologia punktów. Rozważania przy tekstach Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego" (The Anthropology of Points: Deliberations on Texts by Ryszard Kapuściński, Katowice: 2008); "Oikologia. Nauka o domu" (Oikology: A Knowledge of Home, Katowice: 2013) co-authored with Tadeusz Sławek and Zbigniew Kadłubek; "Into the Noise: Anthropological and Aesthetic Discourses in Public Sphere" (Katowice: 2013) co-authored with Maria Popczyk; "Człowiek lokalny. Rozważania umiejscowione" (Local Man: Considerations Situated in a Place, Katowice: 2016); "Being at Home in a Place: The Philosophy of Localness" (Warsaw: 2019); "Oikologia. Powrót" (Oikology: A Return, Katowice: 2020) co-authored with Tadeusz Sławek; "Gdzie dom styka się ze światem. Cztery punkty uważności życia" (Where Home Meets the World. The Four Points of Mindfulness in Life: 2022).
She is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal "Anthropos?" (https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291) and the winner of The Arts in Society International Award for Excellence in 2016 (International Award for Excellence for new research of thinking that has been recognized to be outstanding by members of The Arts in Society Knowledge Community - award winner for Volume 10 of The Arts in Society Journal Collection for paper: "The Philosophy of Localness and the Arts", http://artsinsociety.com/journals/awards ).
She managed the project "Postindustrial Places as the Subject of Transdisciplinary Studies. From Design to Rootedness" (2016-2019). The project was funded by the National Programme for the Development of Humanities „Development” 2.b, 2bH 15 0099 83 (Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2512-6852
Address: Institute of Culture Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia, Katowice
She is the author of the following books: "Tożsamość i postmodernizm" (Identity and Postmodernism, Warsaw: 2003); "Myśleć Śląsk" (Thinking Silesia, Katowice: 2007) co-authored with Zbigniew Kadłubek; "Antropologia punktów. Rozważania przy tekstach Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego" (The Anthropology of Points: Deliberations on Texts by Ryszard Kapuściński, Katowice: 2008); "Oikologia. Nauka o domu" (Oikology: A Knowledge of Home, Katowice: 2013) co-authored with Tadeusz Sławek and Zbigniew Kadłubek; "Into the Noise: Anthropological and Aesthetic Discourses in Public Sphere" (Katowice: 2013) co-authored with Maria Popczyk; "Człowiek lokalny. Rozważania umiejscowione" (Local Man: Considerations Situated in a Place, Katowice: 2016); "Being at Home in a Place: The Philosophy of Localness" (Warsaw: 2019); "Oikologia. Powrót" (Oikology: A Return, Katowice: 2020) co-authored with Tadeusz Sławek; "Gdzie dom styka się ze światem. Cztery punkty uważności życia" (Where Home Meets the World. The Four Points of Mindfulness in Life: 2022).
She is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal "Anthropos?" (https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291) and the winner of The Arts in Society International Award for Excellence in 2016 (International Award for Excellence for new research of thinking that has been recognized to be outstanding by members of The Arts in Society Knowledge Community - award winner for Volume 10 of The Arts in Society Journal Collection for paper: "The Philosophy of Localness and the Arts", http://artsinsociety.com/journals/awards ).
She managed the project "Postindustrial Places as the Subject of Transdisciplinary Studies. From Design to Rootedness" (2016-2019). The project was funded by the National Programme for the Development of Humanities „Development” 2.b, 2bH 15 0099 83 (Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2512-6852
Address: Institute of Culture Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia, Katowice
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about an autonomous space for thinking and experiencing.
The university cannot be homeless, unanchored or uncommitted. The more intensively the universalising procedures of the control of universities are implemented, the more we are convinced that the world does not need any global institutions of higher education and research. This is because a human being is more localised than we would be willing to admit. What is important is difference, the untranslatability of knowledge and languages, the contextual grounding of thinking and action, as well as the experience of the fragility of what is “locally human,” which makes us observe closely a local human being, attached to a place, wandering about with the notion of home, and thus dispelling his or her doubts here and now, even when they tend to recur eternally.
experience that are crucial for in-depth and contextual thinking about man. Here cultural psychology can find inspiration. I deliberately refer to the transcultural space to indicate the possibilities of experiencing the problem of being in a place. Philosophy of friendship anchored in a transcultural context helps to bring out the multi-dimensionality of the
experience of self and the Other, which complements psychological research.
towards the land, love to develop for home and place materially, socially, and spiritually. Separatism and regionalism are not merely political constructs. The aspirations for independence and the awakening of identity make us rediscover the conscious positioning of ourselves in Europe from the perspective of a philosophical and anthropological awakening. To properly diagnose this individuality, one should look at it through the prism of transcultural experiences of mobility, but also cultural longings of locating oneself. Processed ideas designated by the terms oikos, Heimat, campanilismo, locus are helpful here. They make it possible to renew the perception of the local. This perception is not recognized as what is familiar and small but is the idea of opening to the world from the
perspective of the home – strong, independent, but also hospitable to others. Localness is a home that resembles a rough sea and provides a breath of freshness rather than a gesture of locking the door and fitting ‘musty’ display cases. Without the philosophy of the place, it is impossible to understand what is happening with Catalonia, Bavaria, Silesia, Tuscany,
Lombardy, South Tyrol, Venice, Vojvodina and Corsica. It is impossible to understand what happened to a human being and the community longing after 1989.
Keywords: Europe, home, differences, localness
Abstract
In the essay “Between Protection and Oppression. The Narrative of the Cultural Border and the Making of
Bonds,” the author considers the question of what can nowadays be expected from the narrative of the cultural border.
Is it still possible to contribute something new to the description of the borders? Where could one search for new ways of narrating the border, ones that would not only constitute a novelty but also affect the realm of relations?
The world of culture can be perceived both from the perspective of the production of borders and of mechanisms
dissolving their impenetrability. The author points to the constant functionalization of the border between protection
and oppression. This leads to the indication that the cultural narrative of the border should bring forth a formula
capable of redefining a human being. The description of the borders is supposed not only to yield a certain view of the
world but also to create a space of bonds that we are not yet able to imagine at the moment of creating. The narrative
has to be lived: it is to serve the practices of living.
Developing a ‘good narrative’ in intellectual terms means making sure that the story of the border is not about
drawing an extensive map with neatly divided territories; instead, its task is to trace individual microhistories and
microexperiences.
Abstract
The Author deals with problems of metropolis. Space of metropolis is referred to not only in topographical, physical or communicative terms but also, most importantly, in experiential terms, which leads one to perceive communities as not simply social but first and foremost as cultural. It is the cultural space that resonates with ethnos, the particularity of the place, its genius loci, intimate understanding of its natural surroundings, etc. Behind the cultural valence there is however still something more – a metaphysical community.
A local metropolis is a space which brings to light the locality of a community which is stronger than any headline-making social events or conspicuous civilizational changes. Locality is present in the experiences of individuals who realize their potential within a community and do it with a sense of being rooted in the place. Home is built by means of the power of the territory and the passion of thinking about the local position of a human being, however bombastic it may sound. This local orientation of a human does not lead to the closing of local worlds, but it does bring about the common creation of the space of certainties, which involves not only the unquestioned pride in one’s identity, but also the imperative to extend it in all directions: towards the infinite, toward the other, the impossible, the incomprehensible and the strange.
Locality is then what introduces the city to the neighbouring areas that contribute to its making. It would be an overstatement, though, to say that locality leads the city out of and away from itself. Being at home is never a lost chance. A local metropolis does not close the door on strangers, nor does it try to overcome difference: instead, it endeavours to reinforce it and demonstrate the strength of the place. It imposes on its inhabitants a sense of being subjects of the place that transcends them. In this sense, locality of the metropolis would be an alternative to the notion of the metropolis as a big social shopping mall. To local territories difference is something essential that cannot be made irrelevant by the demands of political correctness.
Keywords: Wonder, Astonishment, Textuality, Anthropology
Aleksandra Kunce, Wonder and Anthropology, “The International Journal of the Humanities” 2012, vol. 9, p. 56-67.
Text is available at http://theuniversitypress.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.26/prod.2115
Keywords: Thinking, University, Education System, Knowledge, Dispersion
Text is available at http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.640
Aleksandra Kunce, Thinking and University, “The International Journal of Learning” 2006, vol. 12, issue 2, p. 131-136.
The session explores how Europe is a mental project with the basic of European mental tropes of preference to tradition; historical identity; role of subject; worth of science; elementary chains of continuity and instances of dislocation; systemic character of thinking and contingency of thought; and apotheosis of the whole and of disjointed fragment. There is an emphasis on essence or on the surface tissue of events. The authors address the problem of the evolution of relations obtaining between identity mechanisms and moral stances.
Keywords: Europe, Identity, Character of Thinking
The paper indicates a need for the integral humanities.
Keywords: Integral Humanities, Boundaries of Human Knowledge, Postmodernism
Aleksandra Kunce, Towards The Integral Humanities, „International Journal of the Humanities” 2006, vol. 4, issue 2, p. 9-14.
Text is available at http://ijh.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.26/prod.763
The present article offers an attempt at indicating transformations of the axiological dimension of European culture. The Author addresses the problem of the evolution of relations obtaining between identity mechanisms and moral stances. In order to demonstrate these relations, the Author applies the concepts of honor, shame and dignity for the purposes of respective descriptions of the modern and postmodern identity. The ultimate goal of Aleksandra Kunce’s article is to disclose the character of basic European mental tropes: elementary chains of continuity and instances of dislocation, systemic character of thinking and contingency of thought, apotheosis of the whole and of disjointed fragment, with emphasis on essence or on the surface tissue of events.
Keywords
European culture, Ethics, Epistemology, Knowledge, Identity, Modernism and Postmodernism
Aleksandra Kunce, On European Epistemological and Ethical Tropes, “The International Journal of the Humanities” 2005, vol. 3, issue 5, p. 233-239.
about an autonomous space for thinking and experiencing.
The university cannot be homeless, unanchored or uncommitted. The more intensively the universalising procedures of the control of universities are implemented, the more we are convinced that the world does not need any global institutions of higher education and research. This is because a human being is more localised than we would be willing to admit. What is important is difference, the untranslatability of knowledge and languages, the contextual grounding of thinking and action, as well as the experience of the fragility of what is “locally human,” which makes us observe closely a local human being, attached to a place, wandering about with the notion of home, and thus dispelling his or her doubts here and now, even when they tend to recur eternally.
experience that are crucial for in-depth and contextual thinking about man. Here cultural psychology can find inspiration. I deliberately refer to the transcultural space to indicate the possibilities of experiencing the problem of being in a place. Philosophy of friendship anchored in a transcultural context helps to bring out the multi-dimensionality of the
experience of self and the Other, which complements psychological research.
towards the land, love to develop for home and place materially, socially, and spiritually. Separatism and regionalism are not merely political constructs. The aspirations for independence and the awakening of identity make us rediscover the conscious positioning of ourselves in Europe from the perspective of a philosophical and anthropological awakening. To properly diagnose this individuality, one should look at it through the prism of transcultural experiences of mobility, but also cultural longings of locating oneself. Processed ideas designated by the terms oikos, Heimat, campanilismo, locus are helpful here. They make it possible to renew the perception of the local. This perception is not recognized as what is familiar and small but is the idea of opening to the world from the
perspective of the home – strong, independent, but also hospitable to others. Localness is a home that resembles a rough sea and provides a breath of freshness rather than a gesture of locking the door and fitting ‘musty’ display cases. Without the philosophy of the place, it is impossible to understand what is happening with Catalonia, Bavaria, Silesia, Tuscany,
Lombardy, South Tyrol, Venice, Vojvodina and Corsica. It is impossible to understand what happened to a human being and the community longing after 1989.
Keywords: Europe, home, differences, localness
Abstract
In the essay “Between Protection and Oppression. The Narrative of the Cultural Border and the Making of
Bonds,” the author considers the question of what can nowadays be expected from the narrative of the cultural border.
Is it still possible to contribute something new to the description of the borders? Where could one search for new ways of narrating the border, ones that would not only constitute a novelty but also affect the realm of relations?
The world of culture can be perceived both from the perspective of the production of borders and of mechanisms
dissolving their impenetrability. The author points to the constant functionalization of the border between protection
and oppression. This leads to the indication that the cultural narrative of the border should bring forth a formula
capable of redefining a human being. The description of the borders is supposed not only to yield a certain view of the
world but also to create a space of bonds that we are not yet able to imagine at the moment of creating. The narrative
has to be lived: it is to serve the practices of living.
Developing a ‘good narrative’ in intellectual terms means making sure that the story of the border is not about
drawing an extensive map with neatly divided territories; instead, its task is to trace individual microhistories and
microexperiences.
Abstract
The Author deals with problems of metropolis. Space of metropolis is referred to not only in topographical, physical or communicative terms but also, most importantly, in experiential terms, which leads one to perceive communities as not simply social but first and foremost as cultural. It is the cultural space that resonates with ethnos, the particularity of the place, its genius loci, intimate understanding of its natural surroundings, etc. Behind the cultural valence there is however still something more – a metaphysical community.
A local metropolis is a space which brings to light the locality of a community which is stronger than any headline-making social events or conspicuous civilizational changes. Locality is present in the experiences of individuals who realize their potential within a community and do it with a sense of being rooted in the place. Home is built by means of the power of the territory and the passion of thinking about the local position of a human being, however bombastic it may sound. This local orientation of a human does not lead to the closing of local worlds, but it does bring about the common creation of the space of certainties, which involves not only the unquestioned pride in one’s identity, but also the imperative to extend it in all directions: towards the infinite, toward the other, the impossible, the incomprehensible and the strange.
Locality is then what introduces the city to the neighbouring areas that contribute to its making. It would be an overstatement, though, to say that locality leads the city out of and away from itself. Being at home is never a lost chance. A local metropolis does not close the door on strangers, nor does it try to overcome difference: instead, it endeavours to reinforce it and demonstrate the strength of the place. It imposes on its inhabitants a sense of being subjects of the place that transcends them. In this sense, locality of the metropolis would be an alternative to the notion of the metropolis as a big social shopping mall. To local territories difference is something essential that cannot be made irrelevant by the demands of political correctness.
Keywords: Wonder, Astonishment, Textuality, Anthropology
Aleksandra Kunce, Wonder and Anthropology, “The International Journal of the Humanities” 2012, vol. 9, p. 56-67.
Text is available at http://theuniversitypress.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.26/prod.2115
Keywords: Thinking, University, Education System, Knowledge, Dispersion
Text is available at http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.640
Aleksandra Kunce, Thinking and University, “The International Journal of Learning” 2006, vol. 12, issue 2, p. 131-136.
The session explores how Europe is a mental project with the basic of European mental tropes of preference to tradition; historical identity; role of subject; worth of science; elementary chains of continuity and instances of dislocation; systemic character of thinking and contingency of thought; and apotheosis of the whole and of disjointed fragment. There is an emphasis on essence or on the surface tissue of events. The authors address the problem of the evolution of relations obtaining between identity mechanisms and moral stances.
Keywords: Europe, Identity, Character of Thinking
The paper indicates a need for the integral humanities.
Keywords: Integral Humanities, Boundaries of Human Knowledge, Postmodernism
Aleksandra Kunce, Towards The Integral Humanities, „International Journal of the Humanities” 2006, vol. 4, issue 2, p. 9-14.
Text is available at http://ijh.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.26/prod.763
The present article offers an attempt at indicating transformations of the axiological dimension of European culture. The Author addresses the problem of the evolution of relations obtaining between identity mechanisms and moral stances. In order to demonstrate these relations, the Author applies the concepts of honor, shame and dignity for the purposes of respective descriptions of the modern and postmodern identity. The ultimate goal of Aleksandra Kunce’s article is to disclose the character of basic European mental tropes: elementary chains of continuity and instances of dislocation, systemic character of thinking and contingency of thought, apotheosis of the whole and of disjointed fragment, with emphasis on essence or on the surface tissue of events.
Keywords
European culture, Ethics, Epistemology, Knowledge, Identity, Modernism and Postmodernism
Aleksandra Kunce, On European Epistemological and Ethical Tropes, “The International Journal of the Humanities” 2005, vol. 3, issue 5, p. 233-239.
https://depot.ceon.pl/handle/123456789/17682
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The following considerations derive from listening intently to the connection between man and a place, which could be somewhat loftily called a good act of serfdom, service (in) to a place. Under examination here is local man, and along with him, a cultural experience which holds hidden in itself the philosophy of locality and a tale about a place. What would the idea of locality be? Can one travel without an idea of home? Does local man have the power to create the world? These and other questions accompany reflections on man situated in a place. The sense of crisis in situating oneself in a place and not going through the idea of the process of settling in through experience directs us towards affirmation of locality and local man. The hope for recognition of the intricate connections between man and a place is also a developing hope for extracting the idea of locality from a simplified picture of what is familiar, archaic, monolithic and closed. The transformation in thinking about locality and local man is dictated by the hope to “ease up on” the aggressive contemporary elevation of the uprooting, mobility and a global route of culture. Behind affirmation, as a gesture confirming the significance of the situating of man in a place, lies the hope for overcoming the mythicized separation of nomadic man from settled man. A place, with its accumulated density of experiences, intertwines what is uprooted and outgoing with what is attached and settled. Affirmation of locality, however, is not an apology of a harmonious arrangement of a home, aim, community, sense of familiarity and clarity of cognition. The experience of locality leads to a “profound thought”, that is a though definitely radical, in the spirit of Nietzsche. It comprises an experience of both chasms and power that makes one “shiver inside”. The philosophy of locality exposes man to a place, confronts him/her with a place and compels him/her to fill the place with meaning and commitment. Man situated in a place is man bound to take up his/her place and live in this place creatively, without any support from the inherited thoughtless repertoire of tools for adaptation. The interpretation of local man is written in eight essays and is richly illustrated. In the first essay “W stronę afirmacji lokalności. Wprowadzenie”, the philosophy of locality is unfolding as a profound and affirmative thought, which would clarify the road of man according to the teaching of a place. The place is what we are waiting for and what finds us. The second essay “Człowiek lokalny i moc tworzenia świata” derives from the willingness to seek creative power in what is seemingly sluggish, stagnant and separate. Local man is revealed in his/her power to create connection with the world, in a binding tale about a place. Then, the next essay “Sprawiedliwi. Punkty doświadczeń” seeks to support the developed idea of locality in snapshots of old people photographed in different squares of the world. It directs us to the connections between locality, old age and the idea of the just. “Metropolis, lokalność i brak metafizyczny” connects the thinking about the city with the thinking about metaphysical community, home and locality, which leads to the description of cultural practices in Paris and Barcelona, but also to pondering about a local metropolis. The fifth essay „Lokalne rzeczy to światowe rzeczy. śląskie miejsce” introduces us into the thinking about local space as world space because it is in a place that one begins to decide about oneself as an individual and as community man – local man is Jedermann. Silesian Görlitz, with an experience of wandering and stories of those who lost their homes, allows to consider locality in the proximity of home and wandering. In the essay “To, co na uboczu. Po co na Śląsku chodzi się do upadłych parków?”, the author addresses the experience of being, developed by local man, which is formulated right on the sidelines of life. The discussion focuses on a desolate landscape construction of the former Silesian park Fazaniec.
Oikologia is an attempt to explore what lies in the querying of a place that is home. ‘Home’ that can be understood in the narrower sense – the privacy domain (oikos), but also more broadly – as the home of the commonwealth (polis). Oikologia as an afterthought and the search for salvation is an expression of anxiety. Oikologia is not just metaphorical content recognition home. The home is an experience, as well as the spiritual capacity, emotional, intellectual and track events, relationships and genuine engagement. Oikological option is more than the current fashion or literary or philosophical trend. Oikologia, without losing contact with rationality, is our anchor where rationality has failed.
Abstract in Polish:
Oikologia jest próbą zbadania tego, co kryje się w zapytywaniu o miejsce, które jest domem. „Dom” ów może być rozumiany w węższym znaczeniu – domostwa będącego domeną prywatności (oikos), ale także szerzej – jako dom wspólny (polis). Oikologia jako refleksja i poszukiwanie ocalenia jest wyrazem zatroskania. Oikologia to nie tylko metaforyczne ujmowanie treści domu. Dom to doświadczenie, a także pojemność duchowa, emocjonalna, intelektualna i ślad wydarzenia, relacji oraz autentycznego spotkania. Oikologiczna opcja czymś więcej niż prąd refleksyjny albo moda literacka bądź filozoficzna. Oikologia, nie tracąc kontaktu z racjonalnością, rzuca kotwicę tam, gdzie racjonalność już dawno zawiodła.
The anthropology of point concentrates mind on the point, measures a distance from one point to another, marks special, orientating and extreme points, records density of point placement, regularity and irregularity of points, finds the points of fastening in observation and recognized figures of thoughts and man's activities. At the same time, it provokes the questions on how to conduct a point description which matches the point matter of experience.
Anthropology is an entrance into the insight of things, and, thus, it has to direct at what an already-outlined etymology of punctum indicates - something that moves one thoroughly, pierce and hurt, and has a bitter taste. The point becomes a stigma, a sign and takes on a concrete figure carved on the body. It is a bundle of relations, something that pierces one thoroughly. It is a culmination, a destination of an anthropologist journey to the ends of the world, a turn towards the other and itself, a beginning and an end, the alpha and omega. It constitutes an axis mundi, present itself in stations, borderline pole, unimportant and stable places which give support and de-orientate, is in the places of coincidence and junction of the things, is in the immobilized and dynamic.
The research optics placed in the point opens a space around man - according to the treaty of geometry and picture which make the point a perfect potential. It is sudden. The picture, though, closes because a line is already the end, a clear outline of things, whereas it just the point that opens the world. The point is a place in which life pulses. It opens itself to other points, creates networks of references and is active. It opens the world - including the orders of nature, social life and metaphysical existence. The anthropology of points explores this dynamics and allows for an interpretation of the human space via an epistemologically derived notion of point.
The extraction of an anthropology of points takes place in several areas. The first of them covers the spaces of thinking around the point, which is well-examined both in the mathematical and natural sciences, in the functional usage of thinking about the point, and in the humanities. Outlined spaces of science and social organization allow for an indication of the affinity of thoughts organized by means of a point, but also allow for an establishment of point parameters and environment. The next space that underwent interpretation is a textual space in Kapuściński which serves the field of exemplification. The second field is the praxis sphere, which is an exploration of man's experiences in culture. Essayistic considerations make use of a point exemplum derived by Kapuściński during his journey and outlined via the world and picture. An orientation determined by an epistemologically-derived point leads to an interpretation of the following thematic motives placed in notes by Kapuściński: intimacy, submission to strangeness, distance, cultural body, silence, place, closeness to the rhythm, suspected whole, micrology charm and apocalypsis.
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The experience of identity may be closer to empirical thought (though deprived of methodicalness) and only to such an extent to which it bids to think about ceaseless movement, cumulating sensations. It also comes close to thinking about giving up experience as most essential in consciousness and yielding the depth for. This notion is to serve us in thinking about identity and to point to instability in reaching the self / non-self. We should add to it the feature of ordinariness, momentariness, and inconstancy, because the experience of identity refers at the same time to the truest source, and consciousness, and activity, and momentariness, and repetition and ordinariness of movement of self / non-self.
What we experience is not so much a final product but the movement itself. Obviously, this does not mean the production does not leave behind / bring with itself the belief in the result — gain of a worked-out identity, the state we want to trust, conceive and tame, settle.
Identity / non-identity can also be described in view of the idea of collecting. The metaphor of collecting provokes the question how identity collecting of self / non-self can be conducted. The question posed in this way is very much functional, because it asks about what was met and created, around which identity can be build. It is also open for the daily, trivial dimension. Collecting oneself "from" pieces of contexts met, scraps of different realities, reveals a lot as to the mechanism of identity: What happens with the "territory"; what happens with "blood"; to what extent is thinking around "others", "own" and "strange" important; how attractive is context and how attractive is universality; how are permanence and transitoriness realized.
The dispersion of identity can be viewed in the perspective of absolute difference — so absolute that it may take absolute forms of THE SAME to harness the difference, and actually it only strengthens its power and authority. It can also be described by small and immediate differences without apology of their power but with the knowledge of their universality and casualty. The dispersion in relation to the difference signals there is no way to represent identity as a whole and the possible knowledge, that one is "something" and not "something else" is only scraps of some knowledge about the subject, which happened to reach us but are in no relation to ourselves — who and what we are.
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"Anthropos?" Academic Journal affiliated to the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
The Academic Journal entitled "Anthropos?" (with a question mark), a periodical affiliated to the Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, is published as part of the non-commercial and purely academic and educational project "Anthropos?", initiated in 2002. "Anthropos?" is an interdisciplinary journal investigating Man and Culture from a perspective of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture.
It is nowadays customary for many academic institutions to refer to the Greek notion of anthropos in their publishing series or names of projects. This is due to the fact that we are so much anchored in the Greek heritage. Ever since the launching of the project in 2002 there has been a question mark attached to the name of the journal. It is absolutely crucial to the idea behind the whole enterprise. What is meant by the name is revealed by the contents of the publication which favours contemporary reflection on things that are not fully determinate and easy to point out and identify, the sort of reflection that is marked by doubt and uncertainty. Hence the question mark, as we understand it, is decisive in terms of the journals standing in public sphere, documenting our uncertainty in sketching the image of a human being. We try to answer the classical question - "What is a Human being?". We also try to answer the postmodern question - "What contexts are create our identity?". Academic Journal is a fully peer reviewed (the journal uses double-blind review).
"Anthropos?" is indexed by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (List "B"). An open-access journal is available online.
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Academic Journal "Anthropos?"
Main Editior: dr hab. prof. UŚ Aleksandra Kunce
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia
Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 1
Katowice, 40-032
Poland
Website: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
Texts are available at https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
"Anthropos?" Academic Journal affiliated to the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
The Academic Journal entitled "Anthropos?" (with a question mark), a periodical affiliated to the Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, is published as part of the non-commercial and purely academic and educational project "Anthropos?", initiated in 2002. "Anthropos?" is an interdisciplinary journal investigating Man and Culture from a perspective of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture.
It is nowadays customary for many academic institutions to refer to the Greek notion of anthropos in their publishing series or names of projects. This is due to the fact that we are so much anchored in the Greek heritage. Ever since the launching of the project in 2002 there has been a question mark attached to the name of the journal. It is absolutely crucial to the idea behind the whole enterprise. What is meant by the name is revealed by the contents of the publication which favours contemporary reflection on things that are not fully determinate and easy to point out and identify, the sort of reflection that is marked by doubt and uncertainty. Hence the question mark, as we understand it, is decisive in terms of the journals standing in public sphere, documenting our uncertainty in sketching the image of a human being. We try to answer the classical question - "What is a Human being?". We also try to answer the postmodern question - "What contexts are create our identity?". Academic Journal is a fully peer reviewed (the journal uses double-blind review).
"Anthropos?" is indexed by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (List "B"). An open-access journal is available online.
Address:
Academic Journal "Anthropos?"
Main Editior: dr hab. prof. UŚ Aleksandra Kunce
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia
Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 1
Katowice, 40-032
Poland
Website: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
Texts are available at https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
"Anthropos?" Academic Journal affiliated to the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
The Academic Journal entitled "Anthropos?" (with a question mark), a periodical affiliated to the Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, is published as part of the non-commercial and purely academic and educational project "Anthropos?", initiated in 2002. "Anthropos?" is an interdisciplinary journal investigating Man and Culture from a perspective of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture.
It is nowadays customary for many academic institutions to refer to the Greek notion of anthropos in their publishing series or names of projects. This is due to the fact that we are so much anchored in the Greek heritage. Ever since the launching of the project in 2002 there has been a question mark attached to the name of the journal. It is absolutely crucial to the idea behind the whole enterprise. What is meant by the name is revealed by the contents of the publication which favours contemporary reflection on things that are not fully determinate and easy to point out and identify, the sort of reflection that is marked by doubt and uncertainty. Hence the question mark, as we understand it, is decisive in terms of the journals standing in public sphere, documenting our uncertainty in sketching the image of a human being. We try to answer the classical question - "What is a Human being?". We also try to answer the postmodern question - "What contexts are create our identity?". Academic Journal is a fully peer reviewed (the journal uses double-blind review).
"Anthropos?" is indexed by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (List "B"). An open-access journal is available online.
Address:
Academic Journal "Anthropos?"
Main Editior: dr hab. prof. UŚ Aleksandra Kunce
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia
Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 1
Katowice, 40-032
Poland
Website: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
PDF version is available : http://www.kulturawspolczesna.pl/archiwum/2012/4
Print version is available at the National Centre for Culture (Narodowe Centrum Kultury).
Ze wstępu Aleksandry Kunce:
[…]
Pisanie o lęku stanowi już pewną formą terapeutyczną. Na samym starcie uświadamiamy sobie jednak, że nadzieja na całkowite uleczenie lęku nie może zostać spełniona. Pismo nie
jest w stanie lęku oswoić, gdyż doświadczenie strachu, trwogi, niepokoju stale towarzyszy człowiekowi. Powtarzamy to doświadczenie, tak jak powtarzamy pismo, które próbuje lęku
dotknąć. Humanista jest dziwnym przypadkiem człowieka, który lęk przepracowuje, nazywa, znajduje dla niego kontekst, mierzy i hierarchizuje, lecz jego wysiłek nie minimalizuje siły rażenia, jaką dysponuje lęk w naszym życiu.
Prezentowany tom "Lęki" to próba ponownego zmierzenia się z doświadczeniem lęku, ale z uwzględnieniem współczesnego horyzontu kultury. Ważne jest tu wydobycie napięcia między filozoficznie rozumianym lękiem a jego rozmaitymi realizacjami kulturowymi. Dlatego istotne stało się nie tylko zebranie doraźnych analiz tego, czego się lękamy w kulturze, lecz wskazanie na obecność fundamentalnych ludzkich pytań, które skrywają się za najbanalniejszymi odsłonami lęków w kulturze
współczesnej.
Autorzy tekstów wskazują na różne obszary lęków. Wychodząc od kluczowych pytań o lęki uplasowane w tym, co bliskie i swoje, stopniowo przenoszą akcent na Europę i lęki doznawane wobec kruchości domowej wspólnoty. Jednocześnie pojawiają się zasadnicze rozważania o naturze lęku, które prowadzą do pytań o egzystencję, przestrzenie lokalne, postsekularyzm i humanistykę. Dalej rozważania wydobywają profile lęku i niepokoju w kulturowych praktykach przestrzennych i modelach wychowania. Pojawia się także dyskurs sztuki i rozważania na temat manifestacji lęku, obecnych w rozmaitych tekstach kultury wizualnej. Terytorium lęków ogarnia tu muzea, przestrzenie miejskie, film, internet, literaturę i muzykę.
Texts are available at https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
"Anthropos?" Academic Journal affiliated to the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
The Academic Journal entitled "Anthropos?" (with a question mark), a periodical affiliated to the Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, is published as part of the non-commercial and purely academic and educational project "Anthropos?", initiated in 2002. "Anthropos?" is an interdisciplinary journal investigating Man and Culture from a perspective of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture.
It is nowadays customary for many academic institutions to refer to the Greek notion of anthropos in their publishing series or names of projects. This is due to the fact that we are so much anchored in the Greek heritage. Ever since the launching of the project in 2002 there has been a question mark attached to the name of the journal. It is absolutely crucial to the idea behind the whole enterprise. What is meant by the name is revealed by the contents of the publication which favours contemporary reflection on things that are not fully determinate and easy to point out and identify, the sort of reflection that is marked by doubt and uncertainty. Hence the question mark, as we understand it, is decisive in terms of the journals standing in public sphere, documenting our uncertainty in sketching the image of a human being. We try to answer the classical question - "What is a Human being?". We also try to answer the postmodern question - "What contexts are create our identity?". Academic Journal is a fully peer reviewed (the journal uses double-blind review).
"Anthropos?" is indexed by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (List "B"). An open-access journal is available online.
Address:
Academic Journal "Anthropos?"
Main Editior: dr hab. prof. UŚ Aleksandra Kunce
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia
Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 1
Katowice, 40-032
Poland
Website: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
Texts are available at https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
"Anthropos?" Academic Journal affiliated to the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
The Academic Journal entitled "Anthropos?" (with a question mark), a periodical affiliated to the Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, is published as part of the non-commercial and purely academic and educational project "Anthropos?", initiated in 2002. "Anthropos?" is an interdisciplinary journal investigating Man and Culture from a perspective of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture.
It is nowadays customary for many academic institutions to refer to the Greek notion of anthropos in their publishing series or names of projects. This is due to the fact that we are so much anchored in the Greek heritage. Ever since the launching of the project in 2002 there has been a question mark attached to the name of the journal. It is absolutely crucial to the idea behind the whole enterprise. What is meant by the name is revealed by the contents of the publication which favours contemporary reflection on things that are not fully determinate and easy to point out and identify, the sort of reflection that is marked by doubt and uncertainty. Hence the question mark, as we understand it, is decisive in terms of the journals standing in public sphere, documenting our uncertainty in sketching the image of a human being. We try to answer the classical question - "What is a Human being?". We also try to answer the postmodern question - "What contexts are create our identity?". Academic Journal is a fully peer reviewed (the journal uses double-blind review).
"Anthropos?" is indexed by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (List "B"). An open-access journal is available online.
Address:
Academic Journal "Anthropos?"
Main Editior: dr hab. prof. UŚ Aleksandra Kunce
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia
Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 1
Katowice, 40-032
Poland
Website: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
Texts are available at https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
"Anthropos?" Academic Journal affiliated to the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
The Academic Journal entitled "Anthropos?" (with a question mark), a periodical affiliated to the Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, is published as part of the non-commercial and purely academic and educational project "Anthropos?", initiated in 2002. "Anthropos?" is an interdisciplinary journal investigating Man and Culture from a perspective of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture.
It is nowadays customary for many academic institutions to refer to the Greek notion of anthropos in their publishing series or names of projects. This is due to the fact that we are so much anchored in the Greek heritage. Ever since the launching of the project in 2002 there has been a question mark attached to the name of the journal. It is absolutely crucial to the idea behind the whole enterprise. What is meant by the name is revealed by the contents of the publication which favours contemporary reflection on things that are not fully determinate and easy to point out and identify, the sort of reflection that is marked by doubt and uncertainty. Hence the question mark, as we understand it, is decisive in terms of the journals standing in public sphere, documenting our uncertainty in sketching the image of a human being. We try to answer the classical question - "What is a Human being?". We also try to answer the postmodern question - "What contexts are create our identity?". Academic Journal is a fully peer reviewed (the journal uses double-blind review).
"Anthropos?" is indexed by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (List "B"). An open-access journal is available online.
Address:
Academic Journal "Anthropos?"
Main Editior: dr hab. prof. UŚ Aleksandra Kunce
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia
Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 1
Katowice, 40-032
Poland
e-mail: anthropo@us.edu.pl
Website: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
Texts are available at https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
"Anthropos?" Academic Journal affiliated to the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
The Academic Journal entitled "Anthropos?" (with a question mark), a periodical affiliated to the Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, is published as part of the non-commercial and purely academic and educational project "Anthropos?", initiated in 2002. "Anthropos?" is an interdisciplinary journal investigating Man and Culture from a perspective of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture.
It is nowadays customary for many academic institutions to refer to the Greek notion of anthropos in their publishing series or names of projects. This is due to the fact that we are so much anchored in the Greek heritage. Ever since the launching of the project in 2002 there has been a question mark attached to the name of the journal. It is absolutely crucial to the idea behind the whole enterprise. What is meant by the name is revealed by the contents of the publication which favours contemporary reflection on things that are not fully determinate and easy to point out and identify, the sort of reflection that is marked by doubt and uncertainty. Hence the question mark, as we understand it, is decisive in terms of the journals standing in public sphere, documenting our uncertainty in sketching the image of a human being. We try to answer the classical question - "What is a Human being?". We also try to answer the postmodern question - "What contexts are create our identity?". Academic Journal is a fully peer reviewed (the journal uses double-blind review).
"Anthropos?" is indexed by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (List "B"). An open-access journal is available online.
Address:
Academic Journal "Anthropos?"
Main Editior: dr hab. prof. UŚ Aleksandra Kunce
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia
Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 1
Katowice, 40-032
Poland
Website: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
Texts are available at https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
"Anthropos?" Academic Journal affiliated to the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
The Academic Journal entitled "Anthropos?" (with a question mark), a periodical affiliated to the Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, is published as part of the non-commercial and purely academic and educational project "Anthropos?", initiated in 2002. "Anthropos?" is an interdisciplinary journal investigating Man and Culture from a perspective of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture.
It is nowadays customary for many academic institutions to refer to the Greek notion of anthropos in their publishing series or names of projects. This is due to the fact that we are so much anchored in the Greek heritage. Ever since the launching of the project in 2002 there has been a question mark attached to the name of the journal. It is absolutely crucial to the idea behind the whole enterprise. What is meant by the name is revealed by the contents of the publication which favours contemporary reflection on things that are not fully determinate and easy to point out and identify, the sort of reflection that is marked by doubt and uncertainty. Hence the question mark, as we understand it, is decisive in terms of the journals standing in public sphere, documenting our uncertainty in sketching the image of a human being. We try to answer the classical question - "What is a Human being?". We also try to answer the postmodern question - "What contexts are create our identity?". Academic Journal is a fully peer reviewed (the journal uses double-blind review).
"Anthropos?" is indexed by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (List "B"). An open-access journal is available online.
Address:
Academic Journal "Anthropos?"
Main Editior: dr hab. prof. UŚ Aleksandra Kunce
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia
Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 1
Katowice, 40-032
Poland
Website: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
"Anthropos?" Academic Journal affiliated to the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
The Academic Journal entitled "Anthropos?" (with a question mark), a periodical affiliated to the Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, is published as part of the non-commercial and purely academic and educational project "Anthropos?", initiated in 2002. "Anthropos?" is an interdisciplinary journal investigating Man and Culture from a perspective of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture.
It is nowadays customary for many academic institutions to refer to the Greek notion of anthropos in their publishing series or names of projects. This is due to the fact that we are so much anchored in the Greek heritage. Ever since the launching of the project in 2002 there has been a question mark attached to the name of the journal. It is absolutely crucial to the idea behind the whole enterprise. What is meant by the name is revealed by the contents of the publication which favours contemporary reflection on things that are not fully determinate and easy to point out and identify, the sort of reflection that is marked by doubt and uncertainty. Hence the question mark, as we understand it, is decisive in terms of the journals standing in public sphere, documenting our uncertainty in sketching the image of a human being. We try to answer the classical question - "What is a Human being?". We also try to answer the postmodern question - "What contexts are create our identity?". Academic Journal is a fully peer reviewed (the journal uses double-blind review).
"Anthropos?" is indexed by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (List "B"). An open-access journal is available online.
Address:
Academic Journal "Anthropos?"
Main Editior: dr hab. prof. UŚ Aleksandra Kunce
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia
Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 1
Katowice, 40-032
Poland
Website: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
"Anthropos?" Academic Journal affiliated to the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
The Academic Journal entitled "Anthropos?" (with a question mark), a periodical affiliated to the Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, is published as part of the non-commercial and purely academic and educational project "Anthropos?", initiated in 2002. "Anthropos?" is an interdisciplinary journal investigating Man and Culture from a perspective of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture.
It is nowadays customary for many academic institutions to refer to the Greek notion of anthropos in their publishing series or names of projects. This is due to the fact that we are so much anchored in the Greek heritage. Ever since the launching of the project in 2002 there has been a question mark attached to the name of the journal. It is absolutely crucial to the idea behind the whole enterprise. What is meant by the name is revealed by the contents of the publication which favours contemporary reflection on things that are not fully determinate and easy to point out and identify, the sort of reflection that is marked by doubt and uncertainty. Hence the question mark, as we understand it, is decisive in terms of the journals standing in public sphere, documenting our uncertainty in sketching the image of a human being. We try to answer the classical question - "What is a Human being?". We also try to answer the postmodern question - "What contexts are create our identity?". Academic Journal is a fully peer reviewed (the journal uses double-blind review).
"Anthropos?" is indexed by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (List "B"). An open-access journal is available online.
Address:
Academic Journal "Anthropos?"
Main Editior: dr hab. prof. UŚ Aleksandra Kunce
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia
Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 1
Katowice, 40-032
Poland
Website: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
"Anthropos?" Academic Journal affiliated to the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
The Academic Journal entitled "Anthropos?" (with a question mark), a periodical affiliated to the Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, is published as part of the non-commercial and purely academic and educational project "Anthropos?", initiated in 2002. "Anthropos?" is an interdisciplinary journal investigating Man and Culture from a perspective of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture.
It is nowadays customary for many academic institutions to refer to the Greek notion of anthropos in their publishing series or names of projects. This is due to the fact that we are so much anchored in the Greek heritage. Ever since the launching of the project in 2002 there has been a question mark attached to the name of the journal. It is absolutely crucial to the idea behind the whole enterprise. What is meant by the name is revealed by the contents of the publication which favours contemporary reflection on things that are not fully determinate and easy to point out and identify, the sort of reflection that is marked by doubt and uncertainty. Hence the question mark, as we understand it, is decisive in terms of the journals standing in public sphere, documenting our uncertainty in sketching the image of a human being. We try to answer the classical question - "What is a Human being?". We also try to answer the postmodern question - "What contexts are create our identity?". Academic Journal is a fully peer reviewed (the journal uses double-blind review).
"Anthropos?" is indexed by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (List "B"). An open-access journal is available online.
Address:
Academic Journal "Anthropos?"
Main Editior: dr hab. prof. UŚ Aleksandra Kunce
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia
Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 1
Katowice, 40-032
Poland
Website: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
"Anthropos?" Academic Journal affiliated to the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
The Academic Journal entitled "Anthropos?" (with a question mark), a periodical affiliated to the Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, is published as part of the non-commercial and purely academic and educational project "Anthropos?", initiated in 2002. "Anthropos?" is an interdisciplinary journal investigating Man and Culture from a perspective of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture.
It is nowadays customary for many academic institutions to refer to the Greek notion of anthropos in their publishing series or names of projects. This is due to the fact that we are so much anchored in the Greek heritage. Ever since the launching of the project in 2002 there has been a question mark attached to the name of the journal. It is absolutely crucial to the idea behind the whole enterprise. What is meant by the name is revealed by the contents of the publication which favours contemporary reflection on things that are not fully determinate and easy to point out and identify, the sort of reflection that is marked by doubt and uncertainty. Hence the question mark, as we understand it, is decisive in terms of the journals standing in public sphere, documenting our uncertainty in sketching the image of a human being. We try to answer the classical question - "What is a Human being?". We also try to answer the postmodern question - "What contexts are create our identity?". Academic Journal is a fully peer reviewed (the journal uses double-blind review).
"Anthropos?" is indexed by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (List "B"). An open-access journal is available online.
Address:
Academic Journal "Anthropos?"
Main Editior: dr hab. prof. UŚ Aleksandra Kunce
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia
Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 1
Katowice, 40-032
Poland
Website: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291
"Anthropos?" Academic Journal affiliated to the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
The Academic Journal entitled "Anthropos?" (with a question mark), a periodical affiliated to the Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, is published as part of the non-commercial and purely academic and educational project "Anthropos?", initiated in 2002. "Anthropos?" is an interdisciplinary journal investigating Man and Culture from a perspective of cultural anthropology and philosophy of culture.
It is nowadays customary for many academic institutions to refer to the Greek notion of anthropos in their publishing series or names of projects. This is due to the fact that we are so much anchored in the Greek heritage. Ever since the launching of the project in 2002 there has been a question mark attached to the name of the journal. It is absolutely crucial to the idea behind the whole enterprise. What is meant by the name is revealed by the contents of the publication which favours contemporary reflection on things that are not fully determinate and easy to point out and identify, the sort of reflection that is marked by doubt and uncertainty. Hence the question mark, as we understand it, is decisive in terms of the journals standing in public sphere, documenting our uncertainty in sketching the image of a human being. We try to answer the classical question - "What is a Human being?". We also try to answer the postmodern question - "What contexts are create our identity?". Academic Journal is a fully peer reviewed (the journal uses double-blind review).
"Anthropos?" is indexed by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (List "B"). An open-access journal is available online.
Address:
Academic Journal "Anthropos?"
Main Editior: dr hab. prof. UŚ Aleksandra Kunce
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia
Plac Sejmu Śląskiego 1
Katowice, 40-032
Poland
Website:
https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=291