PHILOSOPHY. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
The paper considers overriding an aporia of time as presented in the third volume of Paul Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative”.
The formulation of an issue is considered according to Ricoeur, the phenomenological descriptions are not sufficient for constituting the objective time based on the time of consciousness. The narrative poetics solves the issue. Ricoeur observes the following techniques that bridge the objective and psychological time: a calendar, a change of generations, an archive, a document, a trace. Within the article, only the first method is considered. Ricoeur’s approach is based on two assumptions. First, the subject and object of history for him is primarily a person; one of the basic qualities of a person is the ability to narrate. Secondly, time does not exist in isolation from the human narrative and is a human dimension.
The calendar is a form of the human relation to the time. It does not boil down only to those conditions, but has its own key feature. On the one hand, it is founded on the myth and ritual, establishing an original coherence between the cosmological and human time. On the other hand, the calendar is based on the astronomical and phenomenological time, and the first one correlates the dates with the movement of celestial bodies, the second one endows it with the notion of the present (today). The calendar does not boil down only to those conditions, but has its own key feature: it organizes historical time through “axial moment” (extraordinary historical event) special event in relation to which other events are ordered.
In the conclusion several questions on the Ricoeur’s theory are posed. Since the narrative itself can be determined by something non-verbal, is its analysis sufficient for resolution of the issue? Is the aporia not eliminated at the level of the original premise: time does not exist apart from the narrative?
The paper deals with the issue of references between signifier and signified in the image of the art’s object. The analysis is based on the replication of two works by M. Foucault dedicated to painting: “This is Not a Pipe” and “Painting by Manet”.
It is demonstrated that M. Foucault’s critical methodology contains elements of a phenomenological study (“phenomenological archeology”), since the criticism is directed not only at the object itself, but includes the author and the viewer (audience) in the given context forminga diversity meanings and structural connections caused by the intersubjectivity.
The author notes features of the M. Foucault’s method: a special interpretation for the correlation of depicted objects and text, images, forms, text and context, text and an image of the portrayed. In the artworks of E. Manet and R. Magritte M. Foucault seeks to unravel the possible utterance, therefore it makes sense to talk about the special aesthetic semantics in hisapproach. The question of applying this phenomenological (semiotic) aesthetic criticism towards subjects of the oriental art is also discussed in the paper.
ART STUDIES
The article discusses an influence of ideas of “Roman Circle” members Konrad Fiedler, Hans von Marées and Adolf von Hildebrand, who stood at the origins of European formalism, on Anton Ažbe’s pedagogical method. For a better understanding of the cultural context and the prerequisites for the emergence of a confrontation of innovative and conservative movements the author outlines the philosophical and artistic situation in Germany in the last third of the 19th century, in particular in its main cultural center – Munich. Somehow or other all “Roman Circle” members were connected with Bavarian capital. They became founders of the theory of the vision and formalist approach, that influenced the art, philosophy, philology throughout Europe. The article deals with K. Fiedler and A. von Hildebrand philosophical ideas and the painter H. von Marées pedagogical approach based on them. At the end of 19th century, the large sector of private art schools was formed in Munich. They acted as an alternative to, and often as a complement to, formal education. Anton Ažbe’s school was one of the most famous private art schools in Munich. As an artist and teacher, he (a Slovenian) experienced a significant influence of formalism, because his artistic development took place during thetheories of formalism heyday and recognition in Munich.
The article compares with concrete examples the theory of vision, the laws of the forms-shaping and the understanding the tasks of art, manifested in the works of C. Fidler, A. Hildebrand, and H. von Marées with the fundamental ideas of the Anton Ažbe’s pedagogical method – “Sphere Principle” and “Crystallization of Color Principle”.
SOCIOLOGY: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCHES
Analyzing industrial reports, the author reconstructs the state of the global marketing research industry, identifying its challenges and opportunities. Among main determining trends of its development he emphasizes technological evolution of data collecting and of analyzing methods, that increased the speed and flexibility of business practices, supporting the human life style and communication changes.
The article notes that the industry is experiencing a difficult period of growth, when new technological solutions have provided not only for improvement in the methods of collecting and analyzing data on consumers, but also for questioning the preservation by research companies of their positions as chief analysts.
Research industry requires now a number of different skill sets, including raised importance of communication and presentation skills, and primary value of theoretical and methodological training as a condition for the universality of specialists and their further professional development.
The paper deals with the peculiarities of labor migration from Belarus to Russia in the context of the development of integration policy of the Union State. The policy of integration of the two States shows significant impact on the formation of the common labor market. Belarus and Russia act respectfully as the main donor States and recipient States of labor resources. In relation to the world labour market, the Republic of Belarus acts mainly as exporter of labour.
The paper presents the historical background for forming the labor relations in the Union state of Russia and Belarus, along with periodization of migration from Belarus to the territory of Russian lands, analyzing the dynamics of migration processes at the present stage, as well as the consist of migrants by the age, education level, professional groups. The main motives of migration behavior of today Belarusian citizens are also analyzed.
It is difficult to estimate the actual volume of labor migration from Russia to Belarus at the moment. A significant part of labour trips is either not registered at all or ispartially registered in relevant legal framework governing relations between the member States of the Union. Within the confines of the Union statefunctioning, the actions developing the single migration space and running the unified system of labor mobility and of the social and labor sphere are continued.
The paper discusses a conflict in the sphere of culture between representatives of religious (Orthodox) activist groups and artists of contemporary art, and the public circles supporting both sides of the conflict.
That issue is studied in the context of the assertion of secular values, which not only oust religious ideas from public life into the private, but also claim to form a kind of secular religion. The existing antagonism between religious perception of the culture and secular concepts goes back to the traditions and ideology both of the early Russian avant-garde and of the Soviet underground, marked with radical attitudes and the atricalized aggression.
The article raises question of the role of the state, of church structures and media in the formatting negative image of participants in experimental art groups. The escalation of confrontation between various social clusters, and an emergence of the phenomenon of “insulting religious feelings” is explained through the traits of the socio-psychological condition of Russian society, which is mainly at a loss and fear of drastic social changes and of erosion of the former cultural and aesthetic boundaries as result of the expansion of the postmodern world view.
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