Psychopatologia życia społecznego: Children in transnational migration reality: a social norm or pathology? Transnational family migration of Poles to Ireland after 2004

Transnational family migration is a current social phenomenon that affects not only adultmigrants but also children. Despite the fact that children are frequent participants of familymigration, they are rarely asked to e...

FACES OF ART: Typical furniture in Łódź city centre apartments at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (contribution to the research)

This article describes and explores the furniture chosen for apartments typical of the middle class and petty bourgeoisie of Łódź. These premises were located in the tenement buildings in, or around, the vicinity of Piot...

MUSIC AND MORALITY: [i]Messiah’s[/i] Tainted Glory? Philosophical Aspects of a Musicological Quarrel on Alleged Anti-Semitism in Handel’s Oratorio

In this paper I reconstruct M. Marissen’s claim that G.F. Handel’s Messiah (HWV 56) conveysa palpable anti-Judaist message, in order to critically examine P. Kivy’s negative responseto it. What Marissen describes as ‘ant...

REPORTS Conference Report: Interdisciplinary Conference on Phenomena, Groups and People Excluded from the Dominant Image of Culture: “Excluded”

BETWEEN A HUMAN AND A BEAST: Metaphor of space in communication. Between nature and culture

Spatial metaphor in semiotic shows the nature of every specific sign system as a dynamic, mercurial unity of interrelated constituents, which condition the meaning of every particular sign in the semiotic system. The con...