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  • Mischa Meier, Christine Radtki, Fabian Schulz, Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas. Author – Werk – Überlieferung (Malalas Studien 1), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, 310 pp., ISBN 879-3-515-11099-0

  • Edited by Edward Dąbrowa
  • Book:
    Cyprus, Crete and the Aegean Islands in Antiquity
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    20 December 2017
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 247-250

  • Summary

    Owing to the large amount of valuable information it contains on the history of Antioch on the Orontes in the Hellenistic and Roman period, the Chronographia, a historical work written in the 6th century CE by John Malalas, who came from this city, is a popular work among scholars. Yet this does not prevent it from having become the target of a number of uncomplimentary comments. These have been common since the 19th century, when German philologists were critical about the work – judgments, incidentally, which were not based on any thorough research. Although attempts to verify these opinions followed in the late 19th century, to date no fundamental changes to them have ensued. However, scholars’ interest in Malalas’ work has resulted in more systematic studies on it, as well as a translation into English and German, and a new critical edition of the Greek text. Many indications suggest that research on Malalas’ Chronographia has entered a new phase, thanks to the founding in 2013 at the University of Tübingen of a centre for research on Malalas led by Mischa Meier. The centre's ambition is to conduct systematic and in-depth studies on his work and to hold annual conferences at which their results will be presented. The first of these took place in 2014 in Tübingen, with papers presented by participants from eight countries. These papers have been published in the first volume of the series Malalas Studien. Schriften zur Chronik des Johannes Malalas.

    The Introduction (Einleitung), written by the conference organisers (M. Meier, C. Radtki, F. Schulz, Zur Entwicklung der Malalas-Forschung – einige Orientierungslinien, pp. 7‒23), provides a concise overview of the current state of research on the Chronographia, the problems associated with the author himself, determining the time when his work was written and the fate of his text. This presentation is concluded by a bibliography of the previous publications concerning Malalas and his work (pp. 20‒23).

    The conference took as its subject several selected issues. These are clearly displayed in the book's format.

  • Le rire de Sisyphe et la danse de Zarathoustra

  • from Part Three - Camus's Revolt in Comparatistic Studies
  • Edited by Maciej Kałuża, Piotr Mróz
  • Book:
    From the Absurd to Revolt/De l'absurde a la Revolte
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    22 December 2017
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 225-234

  • Summary

    Il est souvent dit en présentant la pensée philosophique et l'oeuvre littéraire d'Albert Camus que cette derniere se construit sur trois cycles de création: le cycle de l'absurde, celui de la révolte et enfin, inachevé, celui de l'amour. Or comme il a été souligné précédemment ces trois cycles ne correspondent pas a quelque chose de l'ordre d'un systeme figé, refermé clôturant une période spécifique de la pensée camusienne, pensée qui est toujours en chantier, mais ils s'entremelent, au contraire, l'un avec l'autre dans son écriture comme a remplir, chacun de sa touche personnelle, un meme tableau. Nous lisons dans les Carnets: « Je peux en tout cas vous dire que tout écrivain se répete en meme temps qu'il progresse, que l’évolution d'une pensée ne se fait pas en ligne droite, qu'elle soit ascendante ou non, mais selon une sorte de spirale, ou la pensée repasse par d'anciens chemins sans cesser de le surplomber ».

    Il n'est pas difficile de constater comme dans le cycle de l'absurde, premiere partie de la production camusienne, celui de la révolte soit déja présent pour le moins en puissance dans le héros absurde qui se révolte contre sa condition existentielle, celle qui lui a été attribuée par un destin qu'il n'a pas choisi. La dynamique de la révolte prend en effet ses racines dans la conscientisation de l'absurde. Dans cette perspective nous observons Sisyphe soulever l’énieme rocher et défier les dieux de son rire moqueur, Mersault tuer Zagreus pour pouvoir enfin changer un destin qui est le sien et qu'il n'a pas choisi (la premiere partie du roman est fortement autobiographique et rappelle la jeunesse pauvre d'Albert Camus), Caligula se révolter contre les dieux qui ont laissé mourir Drusilla (dans la premiere version du 1939) et contre la mort ellememe et enfin Meursault se révolter contre toute absolution juridique ou religieuse en acceptant sa condition de condamné a mort et en se souhaitant d'etre accueilli lors de son exécution par des cris de haine.

    Nous pouvons donc affirmer que la révolte est implicitement disséminée dans la mise en scene camusienne de l'absurde. Cependant c'est bien dans Le Mythe de Sisyphe, celui qui est définit explicitement par Camus comme un « Essai sur l'absurde », que la révolte apparait thématisée pour la premiere fois.

  • Un personnage emblématique : Caligula, ou la pensée en action de l'absurde à la révolte

  • from Part One - From the Absurd to Revolt, Analysis of Sources for Camusian Concept of Revolt
  • Edited by Maciej Kałuża, Piotr Mróz
  • Book:
    From the Absurd to Revolt/De l'absurde a la Revolte
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    22 December 2017
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 31-44

  • Summary

    13 février 1936.

    Je demande aux etres plus qu'ils ne peuvent m'apporter. Vanité de prétendre le contraire. Mais quelle erreur et quelle désespérance. Et moi-meme peut-etre.

    Carnets I, II, p. 801.

    Je crois que notre fraternité – sur tous les plans – va encore plus loin que nous l'envisageons.

    René Char a Albert Camus, 3 novembre 1951.

    « L'oeuvre est le miroir de l'auteur, il y prend conscience de soi ». « […] Ce que l'art se doit a lui-meme [c'est] d'etre cette tâche de mise en question de soi, qui d'ailleurs n'aura pas de fin ». C'est Yves Bonnefoy qui s'exprime ici dans ces deux citations extraites de L'Inachevable, Entretiens sur la poésie 1990–2010.

    II pourrait paraître surprenant d'ouvrir une réflexion sur le théâtre de Camus par les citations d'un poete. Pourtant, invoquer Yves Bonnefoy nous permettra ici de mettre en lumiere la partie poétique de Caligula. En effet, pour comprendre parfaitement la piece et ses remaniements nombreux, la poésie nous est nécessaire… Ainsi, en jouant sur le titre de l'ouvrage de Yves Bonnefoy, L'Inachevable donc, nous allons nous interroger sur cette question : Caligula est-elle une piece « inachevable »?

    On peut quasiment dire que Caligula est la piece qui ouvre et qui clôt – par la force des choses bien entendu – l'oeuvre (théâtrale) de Camus puisqu'il y travaille de 1937 a 1958. Camus la présentera d'ailleurs toujours comme sa premiere piece, conçue en 1938, et ce, malgré ses nombreux remaniements. Cette précision sur la date de conception joue deux rôles : d'une part, elle lui permet de réduire les possibles rapprochements avec la figure d'Hitler, mais d'autre part, elle écarte également toute identification trop appuyée avec l'existentialisme. Le personnage de Caligula fut toutefois souvent assimilé a la figure d'Hitler comme le montre notamment la correspondance entre Francis Ponge et Camus. Des l’été 1943 une nouvelle version de la piece prend forme. Le 11 juillet, l'auteur de L’Étranger écrit au poete : « […] je ne travaille pratiquement pas, apres avoir cependant réécrit un acte de Caligula ». Puis, le dimanche 14 novembre 1943, dans une nouvelle lettre au poete, on peut lire : « La Compagnie des Sept [une troupe fondée par Jean Vilar a l'automne 1943] veut jouer Le Malentendu. Je n'ai pas encore donné ma réponse. Elle est tentée aussi par Caligula, mais hésite devant le scandale.

  • Les formes de dépendance en mutation dans l’île de Crète à l’époque hellénistique à la lumière des conventions d'asylie concernant téos

  • Edited by Edward Dąbrowa
  • Book:
    Cyprus, Crete and the Aegean Islands in Antiquity
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    20 December 2017
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 101-126

  • Summary

    Abstract: The paper seeks to analyse some peculiar features in the manner in which the both rounds of Cretan grants of asylia to Teos (late 3rd and ca middle 2nd century BC) are formulated, by replacing them in their socio-economic as well as geographical context. In fact, the use or the absence of expression τὰ σώματα καὶ χρήματα in the safeguard clause may reflect a structural evolution of the slavery occurring on the island in the middle Hellenistic period, it means the transition from traditional and dominant serfdom to chattel slavery.

    Keywords: Cretan slavery, Cretan serfdom, chattel slavery, asylia, seizure.

    Vers la fin du IIIe puis au milieu à peu près du siècle suivant la cite micro-asiatique de Téos déploie à deux reprises des eff orts considérables, en tentant de se prémunir contre les attaques des pirates crétois à la faveur d'accords bilatéraux d'asylie ou autrement d'inviolabilité, sur le plan tant territorial/collectif que personnel/individuel, conclus avec plusieurs cités insulaires, dont les copies ne se sont conservées que sur sa propre chora, inscrites sur les murs de la cella du temple de Dionysos. Tandis que dans les documents de la première série, au nombre de dix-sept, on confère à Téos l'asylie, dans ceux de la seconde, postérieure, au nombre de sept, on la renouvelle (ἀνανεοῦνται) et l’étend à trois nouveaux privilèges, à entendre 1/ isopolitie ou, en gros, égalité des droits civiques (litt. «citoyenneté égale»), 2/ atélie ou exemption de taxes et 3/ enktèsis ou droit d'acquérir des biens fonciers et des habitations (les Crétois s'engagent en plus à fournir une assistance militaire en cas d'agression terrestre ou maritime dirigée contre les Téiens). À cette occasion, Téos députa dans l’île, pour qu'elles eff ectuassent la tournée de ses poleis, deux ambassades, avec Apollodotos fils d'Astyanaks, Kolotès fils de Hekatonymos à la tête de la première et Herodotos fils de Menodotos, Meneklès fils de Dionysios à la tête de la seconde.

  • Is a Rebel an Outsider? Rebellion in the Interpretation of Colin Wilson

  • from Part Three - Camus's Revolt in Comparatistic Studies
  • Edited by Maciej Kałuża, Piotr Mróz
  • Book:
    From the Absurd to Revolt/De l'absurde a la Revolte
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    22 December 2017
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 235-246

  • Summary

    Colin Wilson, an English writer, philosopher and novelist, nowadays seems to be a somewhat forgotten thinker in the area of contemporary philosophy that emphasizes individual existence, freedom and choice. Nonetheless, his main work, The Outsider, together with some reflections and conclusions included therein, still remains a valuable source of inspiring ideas for subsequent generations of humanists. Considerations comprised in The Outsider oscillate around such problems, as: social alienation; possibilities to live free; nihilism and a negation of reality; relation between ideal world and material world; identity and social masks or a problem of effective expression of oneself. The main aim of the article is to compare the idea of Camus’ “rebel” with Wilson's idea of an “outsider” and to answer two questions:

  • 1) what are the functions of the phenomenon of rebellion according to both thinkers?

  • 2) are these functions of rebellion similar?

    • Colin Wilson named his philosophical conception “new and optimistic existentialism” and “phenomenological existentialism.” He wrote: “I have attempted to outline a ‘new existentialism’ that will possess what is so notably lacking in Heidegger and Sartre – the possibility of future development. […] I have preferred to speak of a ‘new existentialism’ rather than a ‘phenomenological existentialism’ because it is less of a mouthful; but later the two terms are used as interchangeable.” In his project of phenomenological existentialism Wilson made a few crucial assumptions, which were already seen in his main work The Outsider: (1) metaphysical dualism (an outsider lives between the reality of thoughts or mind and the reality of empirical experience); (2) the sphere of thoughts is ruled by hardly discovered spiritual laws; (3) the sphere of thoughts can directly be accessible by phenomenological reduction (Einklammerung) or so-called instant mysticism and some psychoactive substances; (4) freedom exists and is possible to experience through a limit situation (Grenzsituation) or crisis. It is worth reminding that, in his work, Wilson distinguishes many types of outsider due to the kind of their activity, temperament and the way of expression.

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Maciej Kałuża, Piotr Mróz
  • Book:
    From the Absurd to Revolt/De l'absurde a la Revolte
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    22 December 2017
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 9-12

  • Summary

    The book which we present today came into being, like many other books, with a single sentence and a simple idea, written down in 2013 in a research project, stating our wish to organize a conference in Cracow dedicated to the notions of the absurd and revolt in Albert Camus's thought. Like many other books, it is a proof that it is always better to be solidary than solitary, especially with all the support one can get from the people, dedicated to Camus's oeuvre. The idea developed slowly but gradually and was patiently consulted with Agnes Spiquel, the President of Société des Études Camusiennes, who gave us great encouragement and support to the idea of the conference and the present publication. We also received a great aid from Sophie Bastien and David Sprintzen, as well as members of Albert Camus Society US/UK. Much support came from Polish scholars, Czesława Piecuch, Ignacy S. Fiut and Joanna Hańderek. These wonderful people did not only help in making the 2016 Cracow conference come true – but they also added significantly by helping in the difficult, yet necessary decision-making process of evaluating research proposals, arriving by droves after the announcement of our conference. Our meeting in February was unique by all accounts. The conference, inaugurated by the Dean of Faculty of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University, Jarosław Górniak, and the wonderful greeting letter from Agnes Spiquel, was – as I see it today – a proof of timeliness of Camus's ideas and a fascinating example of a continuing interest in his profound reflection on modern human condition. The principal aim of our conference was to discuss the philosophical aspects of the two main concepts prevalent in Camus's philosophy: the absurd and revolt, debating on the dynamics of Camus's philosophical journey. Our analysis of the progression of his thought, from the individualized experience and consciousness of the absurd to understanding human revolt through solidarity seems to me, even after more than 65 years since the publication of Camus's second major philosophical essay, a fertile ground for discussion and finding new answers to questions, evoked by philosophical dilemmas found in Camus's writings.

Visible and Invisible
  • Wind Power, Nuclear Energy and Shale Gas in the Polish Media Discourse
  • Edited by Aleksandra Wagner
  • Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017
  • Visible and Invisible... is an edited volume dedicated to the mechanisms of creation and functioning of media discourses on selected energy-related problems. The monograph attempts to diagnose the communicative dimension of the public sphere in terms of its operation as a space of deliberation, with particular consideration for mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion of social actors, topics and arguments.
    The individual chapters result from research dating from the 1980s (archive studies) up until 2014. In the selected periods, diverse media forms and various channels of mass communication were analysed. This produced rich and differentiated materials that at the same time demonstrated the dynamic of changes based on consistent tracking of the fields of nuclear and wind energy and shale gas. These types of energy were chosen deliberately, instead of coal, the most obvious form in Poland. At the beginning of the research, these areas represented technologies that were (in their different ways) innovative. Nuclear energy is perhaps the hardest to define in this way (many actors treat it is a technology of the past), but previously it had not been implemented in Poland. In recent years, it is - again - being taken into serious consideration as a solution that can meet the demands of future energy policy, ensuring stability of energy supplies, reinforcing the country’s energy independence and favouring reduction of CO2 emissions. In this sense it is innovative for the Polish energy system.

  • Representation of Selected Energy Topics on the Polish Internet

  • Edited by Aleksandra Wagner
  • Book:
    Visible and Invisible
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 159-176

  • Summary

    Introduction

    According to Niklas Luhmann, contemporary media should be treated as “the evolutionary achievements that enter at those possible breaks in communication and that serve in a functionally adequate way to transform what is improbable into what is probable” (Luhmann 1995: 160). The role of the media is therefore to provide order to the information world by linking broadcasters with users (van Dijk 2006: 26). This continual transmission of the information contained in symbols by self-reproducing media networks accompanies individuals in all decision-making processes. The media - both traditional (press, radio, television) - and new (internet) are an intrinsic el-ement of the organisation of social life, including the processes taking place in the public sphere. It is thanks to the information transmitted through the media that social actors are able to make political decisions, and thanks to the media that the social order is reproduced and power is legitimised (or delegitimised), or, more broadly, the social structure is reproduced (van Dijk 2006). The discourse itself is a “tool” of the deliberative processes leading to political and economic decisions, as well as of semiotic visibility, which was discussed in the introduction to this book.

    In order to more precisely define the roles and places of new media (especially the internet) in the socio-political system, we need to briefly recall the features that characterise these forms of communication. Important here are the constitutive characteristics of new communication technologies, such as interactiveness, integration (multimedia) and hypertextuality (see Introduction). These characteristics are responsible for the transition from mass communication towards distributed communication. The “few to many” communication model is replaced by a “many to many” model, which in theory favours a large differentiation of broadcasters and a demassification of media (Goban-Klas 2004). As noted by van Dijk, “the new media cause a shift from allocution towards consultation, registration and conversation” (van Dijk 2006:12). This means thatthe internet helped to leave behind a model in which the subject matter, time and speed of contents were up to broadcast centres (allocution model). The turn towards other models of communication (consultation, registration and conversation) leads to empowerment of peripheral (local) individuals.

  • Prolegomena to a Dossier: Inscriptions from the Asklepieion at Lissos (Crete)

  • Edited by Edward Dąbrowa
  • Book:
    Cyprus, Crete and the Aegean Islands in Antiquity
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    20 December 2017
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 127-154

  • Summary

    Abstract: This study assembles an island-wide context for the dossier of inscriptions revealed by excavations at the temple of Asklepios at Lissos in southwestern Crete, by examining the nature of the dossiers attested at and for sites sacred to Asklepios across the island. Such groups of inscriptions should be called “dossiers” rather than “archives,” given their subjective and selective nature; they were chosen to project the way a city and region represented itself rather than to preserve a complete epigraphic record (Cooley 2012b, 222). The ultimate goal is to determine just how characteristic or distinctive the dossier of Lissos is – geographically, chronologically, and by epigraphic genre – within Crete, where Lebena has long dominated the record.

    Key words: Crete, Lissos, Asklepieion, inscriptions.

    Introducing the dossier of the Asklepieion at Lissos

    The Lissian dossier was completely unknown when Margarita Guarducci published the second volume of Inscriptiones Creticae in 1939. The nine inscriptions attributed to Lissos there came instead from the necropolis of Lissos, an ancient wall, the church of Ag. Kyrikos, and unknown locations at Ag. Kyrkos. In the absence of a documentary record the Asklepieion of Lissos had remained unknown until excavation in 1957‒1960 (Riethmüller 2005, 345, no. 162). In 1957 Nicholaos Platon discovered the temple northeast of the church of Ag. Kyrikos, after receiving word that antiquities had been found at Ag. Kyrkos by private individuals seeking water (Platon 1959c, 19). He went to investigate and found the source of these antiquities buried under massive rocks thrown down onto the site by an earthquake (Blackman 1976, 520). The rocks that had tumbled down from high above turned the small sacred building to ruins, thus sealing it and its contents for centuries. After three seasons of excavation between 1958 and 1960, Platon had unearthed not only a temple but its many inscriptions (Platon 1957, 1958b, 1959b, 1959c, 1960b, 1996).

    Systematic study of these inscriptions is only now underway, despite discovery nearly 60 years ago. Platon's excavation diaries record the discovery of close to 40 inscriptions; additional inscriptions are not drawn in his diaries but stored in the Chania Museum.

  • Appendix III

  • from Appendices
  • Edited by Aleksandra Wagner
  • Book:
    Visible and Invisible
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 191-192

  • Summary

    List of web portals monitored by Press Service

    www.biznes.onet.pl

    www.money.pl

    www.cire.pl

    www.bankier.pl

    www.finanse.wp.pl

    www.forsal.pl

    www.wyborcza.pl

    www.biznes.interia.pl

    www.inwestycje.pl

    www.gpwinfostrefa.pl

    www.euro.bankier.pl

    www.gielda.onet.pl

    www.wiadomosci.gazeta.pl

    www.wiadomosci.onet.pl

    www.fakty.interia.pl

    www.energetyka.wnp.pl

    www.parkiet.com

    www.biznes.gazetaprawna.pl

    www.rp.pl

    www.waluty.com.pl

    www.nafta.wnp.pl

    www.wprost.pl

    www.wnp.pl

    www.polskatimes.pl

    www.gospodarka.gazeta.pl

    www.gazetaprawna.pl

    www.polskaradio.pl

    www.tvn24.pl

    www.wiadomosci.wp.pl

    www.portfel.pl

    www.fundi.pl

    www.egospodarka.pl

    www.tvp.info

    www.wirtualnemedia.pl

    www.finanse.egospodarka.pl

    www.prnews.pl

    www.finanse.wp.pl

    www.portalmorski.pl

    www.twoja-firma.pl

    www.ipis.pl

    www.naszdziennik.pl

    www.news,oney.pl

    www.wiaodmosci24.pl

    www.banki.pl

    www.budnet.pl

    www.naukawpolsce.pl

    www.wyborcza.biz

    Unpublished reports prepared within the project “The Media as a Space of Deliberation…” used in the book:

    Wit Hubert:

    Selected Energy Topics in the Polish Internet Discourse. Research Report

    Maria Świątkiewicz-Mośny:

    Selected Energy Topics in the Press Discourse. Research Report

    Wind Energy in the Press Discourse in the 1990s and 2007-2012

    Aleksandra Wagner:

    Nuclear Energy in the 1980s Press Discourse. Content Analysis of Selected Press Titles. Research Report

    Nuclear Energy in the Press Discourse 2007-2012

    Shale Gas in the Press Discourse 2009-2012

    Selected Energy Topics in the Television and Radio Discourse. Research Report

  • From Independence to Dependence: the Administrative Status of the Aegean Islands from 129 BC to 294 AD

  • Edited by Edward Dąbrowa
  • Book:
    Cyprus, Crete and the Aegean Islands in Antiquity
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    20 December 2017
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 187-216

  • Summary

    Abstract: The article is an attempt to find answers to the fundamental questions of which Roman province the individual islands belonged to and from when. The literature on the subject frequently presents the opinion that some of the Aegean Islands were incorporated into the province of Asia at the moment of its creation. The status of the other islands was, in turn, regulated by Augustus. After a meticulous analysis of sources, the author shows that such an image is oversimplified. The administrative affiliation of the individual islands changed depending on the political circumstances and the good or bad will of the Roman generals operating in the East. The efforts of the islanders themselves were also not without significance. The locations of the individual Aegean Islands were very different, and some of them formally became part of the Roman Empire only during the Flavian rule.

    Key words: Aegean Islands in Roman times, Roman Greece, province of Asia.

    In 1904 Victor Chapot published an extensive work on the history of the Roman province of Asia from the time of its creation to the Early Empire.1 In the fragment about the borders of the province, the historian concluded that it must have also included the islands situated in the direct vicinity of the western coast of Asia Minor. Although he rightly noted that literary sources do not give us information indicating that this was the case, this did not prevent him from concluding that the islands were closely connected with the coast and that their incorporation into the new province was a political and, first of all, economical necessity. Although Chapot's opinion was not received uncritically by later scholars, it is an incentive to analyse the changes in the formal and legal position of the Aegean Islands in the period between 129 BC, i.e. the creation of the province of Asia, and 294 AD, i.e. the creation of the provincia Insularum by Diocletian.

    Writing about the islands which were supposed to be incorporated into the newly created province of Asia, Chapot made a general reference to a number of islands from Rhodes to Tenendos.

  • Profound Indifference: The Source of Revolt in the Early Writings of Camus

  • from Part One - From the Absurd to Revolt, Analysis of Sources for Camusian Concept of Revolt
  • Edited by Maciej Kałuża, Piotr Mróz
  • Book:
    From the Absurd to Revolt/De l'absurde a la Revolte
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    22 December 2017
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 15-30

  • Summary

    INTRODUCTION

    I have considered the “early writings” of Albert Camus as: the five essays collected in The Wrong Side and the Right Side; the four of Nuptials; the abandoned novella A Happy Death; The Stranger; and the long essay The Myth of Sisyphus. For brevity, i have omitted all but the briefest reference to Camus's plays, The Misunderstanding and Caligula, as discussion of these works would neither add nor subtract greatly from my argument. Finally, because i am interested in Camus's philosophical response to indifference, and in particular his conception of profound indifference, i will not be looking at his journalistic work. The Plague represents a strong shift in Camus's attitude to indifference; the introduction of the social question adds an entirely new dimension to his concept of revolt. since i am interested here in indifference as the origin of revolt, i stop short before this novel.

    VARIETIES OF INDIFFERENCE

    There are many ways of being indifferent and almost limitless objects to which one can be indifferent. Indifference can be a vice; in the common usage of the label it most often is, but there are forms of indifference that are virtuous. And it is possible for an individual to live a life that is indifferent to some object in a way that is contemptible while at the same time exhibiting indifference to some other object in a way that is commendable. when we say of a person that they are indifferent contra indifferent to some object, what we usually mean is they are apathetically indifferent to some aspect of life in a way dam-aging to character. However, as we shall see, it is possible to be indifferent in a way that is character building. in my discussion of Camus's different uses of indifference, i will be drawing heavily on Lillehammer's work on varieties of indifference in which he identifies eight kinds divided equally into virtues and vices. i will give a brief overview of these indifferences with one or two examples of each taken from Camus's work. My intention here is to lay the ground for discussion of indifference later in this article.

  • Organising the Research

  • Edited by Aleksandra Wagner
  • Book:
    Visible and Invisible
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 33-48

  • Summary

    General information about the research

    The objective of the research was to ascertain whether the media space -conceived as the communicative dimension of the public sphere in Poland - is favourable to deliberation. Therefore, the first thing to be analysed was the way in which public discourses concerning the given topic exist or do not exist in the media. In the case of the current ones, their internal structure and dynamic was analysed, as well as the mechanisms that dictate their media visibility. Secondly, apart from analysing the media space, we also examined the role of the media themselves as actants in the field of promoting the ideas of deliberation and participation, creating certain representations of these concepts, as well as the function of mobilising citizens to participate in them and providing information on their progress.

    The material selected for exploring how these mechanisms worked comprised topics linked to energy policy as an area of policy that is on the one hand presented as strategic for the country and extremely important for its citizens’ quality of life, and on the other as complicated, difficult and demanding particular competences. Three subject areas were chosen from the related areas. In 2011, at the research planning stage, two of these were so-called “hot topics” that were capturing the media's attention - nuclear energy and shale gas. We also chose the topic of wind energy, as the form of alternative energy based on renewable energy sources that was the most recognised and most common in the Polish media. The initial exploratory research showed that wind energy tended to be treated as something of a counterpoint for the remaining two energy sources.

    The main load of the analyses concerns current discourses, anchored “here and now,” meaning in practice systematic monitoring of the media for 12 months. We then conducted a qualitative analysis of the contents of the sources in selected periods from this time, permitting us to observe the continuity of the discourses, and thus the process of how the arguments used developed, topics were continued, actors were included and excluded as the discourses developed, the scenes of events were constructed, and specific definitions of the situation created and negotiated. Thanks to continual monitoring, the researchers were able to refer to the current socio-political situation.

  • Henning Börm, Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity, (Studies in Ancient Monarchies 3), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 352 pp., 2 b/w ill. ISBN 978-3-515-11095-2 (Edward Dąbrowa)

  • Edited by Edward Dąbrowa
  • Book:
    Cyprus, Crete and the Aegean Islands in Antiquity
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    20 December 2017
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 227-230

  • Summary

    In every era, the institution of the monarchy and the associated ideology, as well as social reactions to this form of political system, have been the subject both of panegyric eulogies and of fierce criticism. The latter is the leitmotif of the articles in this volume, put together on the initiative of Henning Börm. This scholar, associated with the University of Konstanz, is known mostly for his studies of the history of Iran under Sassanid rule. In recent years his research has also had an important focus on the question of the role of monarchy in the Iranian world. And it was these interests that gave rise to his initiative to publish a set of studies devoted to the topic of manifestations in the ancient world of hostile or unfriendly attitudes towards the institution of monarchy (or rather, more broadly, the monocratic style of rule), as well as the social and ideological foundations of these positions.

    The book titled Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity contains a total of 13 texts. Although most of them (10) were written by German researchers (the other three authors are from Austria, Israel and the USA), they are all published in English, which certainly helps with finding a wider audience. In chronological terms, the articles occupy a broad timeframe, from the history of pharaonic Egypt to the times of Justinian. The various historical eras are not represented equally, however.

    The volume is opened by an article which forms its introduction, written by Börm (Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction, pp. 9‒24). The rest of the chapters are in chronological order. J.F. Quack (‘As he disregarded the law, he was replaced during his own lifetime’: On Criticism of Egyptian Rulers in the So-Called Demotic Chronicle, pp. 25‒43) analyses the antimonarchical message contained in the Demotic Chronicle. Only one copy is known of this text, recorded in the third century BCE. According to the author, the original was written at the time of pharaoh Nectanebo II, and the criticism of his predecessors that it presents was supposed to legitimise his own rule, gained by means of usurpation (pp. 38‒39).

  • The Media Energy Discourse as an Object of Sociological Reflection – the Theoretical and Methodological Context

  • Edited by Aleksandra Wagner
  • Book:
    Visible and Invisible
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 11-32

  • Summary

    Is energy a sociological topic?

    Questions concerning acquisition, storage and use of energy crop up in diverse contexts associated with how societies operate at various levels: from micro (household and individuals’ practices), via meso (when energy issues are considered in the context of the functioning of cities, municipalities or regions), to macro (referring to state policies, the workings of transnational organisations, and global markets and geopolitical systems). We can also identify the global level, when the operation of the energy industries is discussed in the context of the future of the planet, climate, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and responsible management of resources on a global scale. Energy policy as a type of public policy is generating increased interest among diverse social actors, coinciding with calls for civic empowerment and participatory development of these policies. These demands are associated with a growing popularity of the concepts of deliberative and participatory democracy (Habermas 1996; Dryzek 1990,2000,2010; Fishkin, Laslett2003], and involve consideration of the reflexive public opinion (Fish-kin 2009) and civic engagement, for example in the concept of “multilane governance” (Sroka 2009). They are gaining in importance as the needs for transformations of the current energy systems are expressed increasingly clearly in transnational (scientific, political, economic] discourses. These transformations would aim to find new, innovative solutions to allow humanity to respond to the increasing energy requirements of contemporary civilisations, as well as responding to threats related to climate, the environment and limited supplies of fossil fuels. Social protests are no longer interpreted solely in terms of a lack of knowledge or irrational fears of technology (Stankiewicz 2009) and the NIMBY (“Not in my back yard”) syndrome, too frequently reduced to people's egoistic aversion to investments (which they otherwise view as justified] being realised in their neighbourhood (Wolsink 2006; Devine-Wright 2009b). Instead, they are increasingly regarded as a dramatic voice in the public sphere resulting from exclusion or marginal-isation of some actors (cf. Bell, Grey, Haggett 2005). Some argue that the industrial revolution and its model of energy culture founded on coal, oil and gas created an era of modernisation whose potential in its original form is coming to its limit (Giddens, Lash, Beck 1994).

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Aleksandra Wagner
  • Book:
    Visible and Invisible
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 April 2017, pp 7-10

  • Summary

    This book came about as the result of research encompassing a period from the 1980s (archival research) until 2014. Various media forms and diverse channels of mass communication were analysed in the selected time periods, which allowed us to gather material that on the one hand was abundant and differentiated and on the other illustrated the dynamic of changes based on consistent tracking of the fields of nuclear and wind policy and shale gas. It was no coincidence that these types of energy were chosen, while the most obvious one in Poland, coal, was left out. When the research began, they were (all in their own way) innovative technologies. Nuclear energy - perhaps the hardest to define in this way (as many actors treat it as a technology of the past) - is still to be implemented in Poland. For several years, though, it has again begun to be considered as a solution that might satisfy the future demands of energy policy, assuring a stable energy supply, increasing the country's energy independence and leading to reduced CO2 emissions. In this sense (as a new solution), it is an innovative approach for the Polish energy system.

    Wind energy is the most popular renewable energy source (RES) in Poland, as well as the most recognisable and the one most readily associated with environmental friendliness. As a result, although it has been around since the 1990s, and in recent years has even undergone a marked increase in generating capacity (albeit remaining relatively low in comparison to leading European countries), it is treated as an alternative to “hard” yet “dirty” energy technologies based on fossil fuels (including uranium).

    Shale gas is a new subject that appeared in the media discourse just two years before the beginning of the study, during which it became a hot topic in the media. Unlike the remaining two energy types, saddled with a certain history of discourses around which specific epistemic communities had developed and narrative tracks, types of argument and symbolic representations had formed, the selection of the topic of shale gas permitted an ongoing observation of all these processes.

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