[b]Narrative identity[/b]: 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...

THE SOCIAL METAPHOR OF THE HUMAN BODY: Designing Hyperreality? Emancipation of Design in the Perspective of Selected Theories of Sociology and Philosophy of Culture

This article explores the process of creating the social sphere in design. The author startsfrom transgression in the discourse of design, and examines the papers of contemporarydesigners, eg. Victor Papanek, Richard Neu...

CHILD’S COMPETENCES IN CHRONIC ILLNESS: Competences as a form of situated practice. Ethnographic reflection on enacting ADHD in Poland.

In this article, I comment on the topic of children’s competences in chronic illness with a careful study conducted in a Polish family of a 9 years old boy diagnosed with ADHD. I suggest to approach the competences as a...

MUSIC AND MORALITY: The Reverend Hugh Haweis and his[i] Music and Morals[/i]. A voice from the Victorian England about the morality of music: ethical effects of musical emotions

The Reverend Hugh Reginald Haweis with his book Music and Morals received an astoundingpopularity in the Victorian England. In his writings, he affirms the moral powerof music, both in temporal and eternal terms, describ...

MAGISTRI DOCENT: The Beast and the Sovereign. First session December 12, 2001