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Storied Landscapes
Storied Landscapes is a beautifully written, sweeping examination of the evolving identity of major ethno-religious immigrant groups in the Canadian West including Ukrainians, Mennonites, Icelanders, Doukhobors, Germans, Poles, Romanians, Jews, Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes.
Jerzy Grotowski's Journeys to the East
Jerzy Grotowski’s Journeys to the East is an unusual collection of facts, quotations, and commentaries documenting the real and metaphorical journeys of the Polish theatre director and ‘teacher of performers’ into a geographical and cultural dimension which we used to and still call the Orient. Grotowski’s contacts and meetings with the East are placed here in the context of his biography. Painstakingly researched by Grotowski’s main biographer Zbigniew Osiński, this book is necessary reading for those interested in Grotowski’s deep relationship with the East and in the inspiration he drew from its various cultures. The book will appeal to all readers who feel a need to have a glimpse of the East from the perspective of one of the main theatre reformers in the twentieth century.
A Difficult Neighbourhood
Through a series of essays on key events in recent years in Russia, the western ex-republics of the USSR and the countries of the one-time Warsaw Pact, John Besemeres seeks to illuminate the domestic politics of the most important states, as well as Moscow’s relations with all of them. At the outset, he takes some backward glances at the violent suppression of national life in the ‘bloodlands’ of Europe during World War II by the Stalinist and Nazi regimes, which helps to explain much about the region’s dynamics since. His concern throughout is that a large area of Europe with a combined population well in excess of Russia’s could again be consigned by the West to Moscow’s care, ...
Limiting Privilege
State socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, and electrify cities—all within a single lifetime. Central to these initiatives was extending educational opportunities to the working class and creating a vision of an egalitarian socialist university that offered advancement for all. Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland traces the possibilities and limits of this goal by looking at a model socialist university established in 1945 in the working-class city of Łódź, Poland. Initially a flagship project of socialist modernization, the university tried to offer social advancement by privileging admission for peasant and working-class children, but these efforts were often fought by the elite who sought to preserve their privilege. By looking at first-generation students, intelligentsia faculty, and an industrial city, Limiting Privilege explores a complex story about utopian visions, failed aspirations, and reluctant academia.
Philosophy, Theory or Way of Life? Controversies in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Philosophy in antiquity was conceived not as mere theory but as a way of life; but it lost its 'practicist' cast through a process that begins in the patristic era and peaks with its conversion into an academic discipline in the medieval universities under the influence of 13th-century scholasticism. Juliusz Domański sets out the reasons behind that process and shows how traces of the 'practicist' orientation survived, ultimately leading to a recovery of the ancient notion among the humanists of the Renaissance. A foreword by Pierre Hadot relates Domański’s research to his own vision of the history of philosophy.
Holocaust Literature
A comprehensive assessment of Holocaust literature, from World War II to the present day
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Czasy ''Solidarności'' na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim 1980-1989
Tom przynosi 26 rozmów z pracownikami Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, członkami „Solidarności” w latach 1980–1989. Są to wspomnienia o zaangażowaniu rozmówców w ruch „Solidarności” na Uniwersytecie i w regionalnych strukturach „S”, o atmosferze panującej wówczas na Uniwersytecie oraz o działaniach, które zmieniły jego kształt nie tylko w owych latach, ale w sposób oczywisty wpłynęły na lata przyszłe. Niektóre rozmowy dotyczą także wydarzeń z okresu wcześniejszego, wszystkie jednak – takie bowiem przyjęto założenie – kończą się na roku 1989. Celem przedsięwzięcia było zarejestrowanie wspomnień z tego przełomowego okresu. W rozmowie ze mną rektor Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Profesor Karol Musioł określił ten cel lapidarnie, niemniej jednak jasno: – „Chodzi o to, aby ten okres historii Uniwersytetu nie był opisany wyłącznie na podstawie akt Służby Bezpieczeństwa PRL-u. To będzie jeden z kroków ku temu”. Andrzej M. Kobos, fragment Wstępu .
