LA ANGUSTIA COMO MANIFESTACIÓN DE LO UNHEIMLICH EN EL DECENIO EXPRESIONISTA: KAFKA & CO. A VUELTAS CON KIERKEGAARD

El presente artículo aborda la relación entre la angustia y el miedo y el concepto de lo unheimlich en la literatura escrita en lengua alemana durante el decenio expresionista (1910-1923). La profunda crisis del yo desencadenada por la inestabilidad consustancial a esta época hizo especialmente prolífico el tratamiento de la angustia —como muestra la relevancia del texto de Kierkegaard El concepto del miedo— en autores como Alfred Döblin, Georg Heym, Robert Musil o Georg Trakl. Asimismo, se analizará la obra de Kafka en tanto continúa siendo paradigmática de dicha relación, a la que ha de sumarse la noción de culpa. Abstract: This article presents the relationship between anxiety and fear and the unheimlich concept in the German literature of the Expressionist Decade (1910-1923). The deep crisis of the ego brought about by the inherent instability of this period made the treatment of anxiety especially prolific. Its relevance is clearly shown in Kierkegaard’s text The Concept of Fear, but it also had a great impact on such authors as Alfred Döblin, Georg Heym, Robert Musil or Georg Trakl. Furthermore, the paper focuses on Kafka’s literature as it is paradigmatic of this relationship, to which guilt should be added.

The Crisis of Confessionalism: Lebanon between Tradition and Modernity

This article contains the analysis of the Lebanese protests that started in October 2019 and attempts to explain their background. The main argument is that the Lebanese consociational system is undergoing a deep crisis. There is a growing disparity between the existing political system and ongoing social changes. The article argues that the reason for the socio-political tensions lies in the clash between two distinctive and competing discourses about the future shape of the Lebanese political system: the confessional discourse and the secular or reformist discourse.

Historical issues in Polish-Russian relations within the period of 1989 to 2007

The article focuses on the issue of the influence of the historical conditions on the Polish-Russian relations at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The history of these two countries is linked by a long-lasting and difficult past, and thus numerous unresolved disputes, burdens, and myths arose that have been felt to this day. In 1989, after the fall of the Communist system in our country, new political elites managing the process of democratic changes in the Third Polish Republic made efforts that aimed at settling disputed threads from the common Polish-Russian history. On the way to making up for the past, the period between 1989 and 2007 was marked by a number of important events that could be seen as the symbol of the common reconciliation. Unfortunately, there were also moments of regression and deep crisis that negatively affected the cooperation of both countries in the matter of dealing with difficult cards of the common history. This was influenced by a different approach to the past that is understood differently in Poland and in Russia and that contributed to the emergence of numerous misunderstandings, as well as to the mutual accusations in this field.

Educating to the collateral. For a pedagogy of the event

The starting point of the article will be an analysis of the adjective “collateral” (from the late Latin collateralis, understood not only as “something that is beside” but also as “what accompanies us”, “is related to”, “is connected to” and “has a common origin” – meanings that we also find in the Greek terms plaghios and synghenes –) conducted through a deconstructive approach. In times of deep crisis such as that caused by a planetary pandemic, the article highlights how to enjoy the fullness of life is necessary an aesthetic education conceived inseparably from the emotional and moral ones. Also, the article will show how the fruition of authentic beauty in human beings is intimately connected with death, time and eros. The latter represent conceptual categories intimately connected and “collateral” (because they have a common origin and always appear “side by side”), and in them lies the possibility of an authentic enjoyment of existence and its beauty. It is death that gives value to life, and it is always death that is at the very origin of the creation of all human values. The possibility of giving value and enjoying the whole meaning of life lies in the acceptance of the inevitability of time passing and the end of existence. However, it is not a matter of a simple Nietzschean amor fati, of the ability to develop resilient mental and psychological structures in the face of adversity and pain of life or to embrace the stereotyped pedagogies of death or resilience. This means to conceive a new pedagogical paradigm that overcomes the concept of “negative” as something deniable and depressing and prospect a new education to life. This education is always receptive and not passive in the face of a negative, painful, or adverse event. In the tyche prospected by the event, this education is capable of finding the “eidos” of an ethical, aesthetic, and moral education understood as openness to life and the endless possibility of the fruition of its beauty in everyday life. The essay will conclude with the definition of the pedagogical principles of what can be called the “collateral education” that can be found in the “pedagogy of the event” and its hermeneutic and deconstructive methodology applicable in different educational contexts.

The pro-export effect of subnational migration networks: new evidence from Spanish provinces

The paper investigates the effect that subnational networks of immigrants and emigrants had on exports from Spanish provinces (NUTS3) over the period of 2007–2016 by integrating state-of-the-art advances in the gravity model literature. In particular, it allows for heterogeneity in provincial export capacity, which significantly reduces pro-export effects, and select the Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood as the most suitable estimator according to diagnostic tests. When both immigration and emigration are instrumented, the pro-export effect of immigrants found by previous studies vanishes and that of emigrants, instead, appears appreciable. The results obtained suggest that over the period that encompasses the double-deep crisis, immigrants did not show significant information and enforcement effects in the considered context, while the effects of emigrant demand for home-country goods may have been important. The prevalence of emigrant over immigrant effects appears attributable to a change in the composition of the migration stocks over the considered period of crisis.

The Unity Principle – A New Paradigm in Theoretical Physics

Contemporary theoretical physics enters a deep crisis resulting from its positivistic and post-positivistic approach, which assumes that reality is mechanical and atomistic made of point-like particles or one-dimensional strings where the essence of matter, energy, space and time, gravity and other forces are undetectable mysteries. However, within this paper I will endeavour to show that the Universe (reality) is dialectical (relational) and is thus accessible by dialectical logic. The fundamental discovery of the Unity Principle derived on the base of dialectical logic is presented illustrating the exact mechanism how the physical Universe may work at its macro and micro levels. New fundamentals of theoretical physics are built

Governance as a Strange Elephant Past Legacies, Current Complexities and Future Challenges On Navigating Troubled Waters (Ferenc Miszlivetz and Attila Pók eds., iASK 2020)

The other night, as I was reading a book with a poetic and tragically apt title, the TV showed a crowd of rioters raiding the Capitol building in Washington DC. It was as if everything on the pages came to life in front of my eyes in the form of emblematic visual images: the crisis was visible, the tension palpable and never before have I felt a greater need for the return of common sense, rationality, solidarity and faith in institutions and shared values that societies have been trying to perfect and expand since the Enlightenment. Just like in a bad, sensationalist CIA-movie, I saw an example of the worst of our current civilisation: a deep crisis of not only political legitimacy but of democracy. The power of the past, the terrible ghost of the twentieth century came back to haunt, leaving me and many sleepless. What is going to happen? What is the way out of this? (...)

La relazione educativa in epoca di Covid-19. Una riflessione pedagogica sul ruolo della famiglia e sul senso di cittadinanza

The educational relationship, being humanly determined, becomes a privileged instrument of education because it accepts the difference and recognizes the limit of the individual in the wealth of the other by himself during a time, not too short but not too long, in which he identifies as useful and fundamental, not only to promote the intentional and global growth of the educating, but also to favor mutual involvement within the community. This contribution aims to investigate the role of the family today in the society affected by the coronavirus emergency. The sense of citizenship, in such a context, tends to change transforming and adapting to the sociocultural changes that characterize the evolution of the community. Hence, we are talking of not only a health issue, but a problem of immediate educational interest, which embraces the most authentic diversity and human relationships. The family, the most relevant educational environment for the development of relationships and parenthood, today is put to the test, by a socio-educational condition in deep crisis, caused by the pandemic situation of Covid-19.

HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY DURING COVID-19 CRISIS: REVIEW OF THE CURRENT SITUATION AND SUSTAINABLE POST-CRISIS RESPONSE

This study, titled “Hospitality Industry During COVID-19 Crisis: Review of the Current Situation and Sustainable Post-Crisis Response”, is a review of published studies, assessing the current research efforts in the hospitality industry that was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 global pandemic, as well as possible sustainable crisis management solutions. In response to the crisis, caused by virus outbreak and followed by the travel bans, many hotels were forced to close their doors temporarily or even forever. Such a deep crisis in the hospitality industry resulted in many problems, especially social problems among the employees of the industry. The study has utilised secondary research methodology to conduct a literature review; qualitative content analysis has been applied to the selected academic pieces of literature, journal articles, published researches and thesis papers, government reports, case studies, UNWTO monthly reports. The results revealed approaches and the most popular research directions, as well as possible crisis management solutions and strategies. The findings are highlighting the challenges in tourisms and hospitality industry in the wake of ongoing pandemic; the study lists possible post-crisis sustainable strategic solutions, as well as directions for the future research efforts.

Pandemic in paradise: Tourism pauses in Bali

This research note provides an account of the trajectory of Balinese tourism through 2020, focusing on government actions in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and the responses of local people. Interviews were conducted with informants in the tourism sector to assess the impact of the pandemic. The findings suggest that before April 2020, people were calm and thought that Balinese tourism may survive, albeit on much-reduced arrivals. After April, when tourism shut down completely, a new sense of pessimism became evident. Although domestic tourism began again in August, the sector was still in deep crisis at the end of the year. Although Balinese people expressed hope that the future may offer a more sustainable kind of tourism, all indications pointed to official support for a return to mass tourism.