„A FRIENDLY ALIEN”. ADOLF BERGER’S ESCAPE AND A LONG WAY TO THE UNITED STATES (1938-1942)Summary Adolf Berger (1882-1962) belongs to the group of the most illustrious world romanists. Among his many eminent works one must not forget to quote the monumental “Encyclopedic...

Taking into account the Brazilian reception of the novel O Primo Bazilio, the author outlines the cultural connections between the Portuguese realist writer Eca de Queiroz and Brazil. The starting point of the argument is the heated public debate on the novel at the end...

RECONSTRUCTION OF HOMINID PHYLOGENY ON THE BASIS OF CLADISTIC ANALYSIS. Phylogenetic relationships among eight hominid taxa (the Australopithecines and Homo) are examined using cladistic techniques. Data on morphological and morphometric characters of fossil hominid cra...

Tematem artykułu jest rola racjonalnych i emocjonalnych czynników mających wpływ na decyzje podejmowane w polityce. Wyjaśnianie zjawisk politycznych w kategoriach racjonalności jest tradycją zapoczątkowaną w epoce Oświecenia i kontynuowaną we współczesnej filozofii poli...

An analysis and evaluation has been made of the present investigation directions of the Polish anthropology, world tendencies of the development of this discipline and the expected social needs. This permitted to divide the main directions of anthropological studies int...

Tekst jest hasłem w "Encyklopedii Katolickiej", biogramem archimandryty kobryńskiego Augustyna Nowosielskiego (1711-1779), bazylianina. The text is the entry in "the Catholic Encyclopaedia", the biography of the archimandrite from Kobryn - Augustyn Nowosielski (1711-177...

Rosa Luxemburg is not only an economic author. In texts written in dramatic days of 1905 revolution she presented a path-breaking account of construction of political subjectivities, and thus revolutionary subject, in the very process of revolutionary struggles. The pol...

The goal of this article is to provide a detailed description of the mie cie sie // mie cie sie alternation as presented in Ksiegi o gospodarstwie from 1549. In the analysis, four aspects have been taken into consideration: 1) the alternation’s position range, 2) the te...

AIDS is an example of the global threat. In my article I would like to present the most important ethical dilemmas related to global outspreading of AIDS/HIV epidemic in the world and also make an attempt of finding a possible solution. I assume that the dilemmas could ...

Jakub Goldberg’s „Studium historyczno-urbanistyczne Szadku” („Study of the history and urban development of Szadek”) of 1961, which has never been published and exists only in typescript form, is a compendium of knowledge about the history of this city. Jakub Goldberg, ...