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MARIAN PALENCAR
Department of Philosophical Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, University
of M. Bel,
Tajovskeho 40, 974 01 Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
The author contemplates the need of hope in human life with respect
to its temporal character. After differentiation between fear
and anxiety, hope is characterized as a feeling connected with
an expectation of the desired future.
Hope - as a basic existential parameter of the human being - binds
with any partiality.
This paper develops the motives of existentialist philosophy and
the impulses of the theology of hope.
pp. 3-8
Eva KRISTOFICOVA
Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Arts,
Comenius University,
Gondova 2, 818 01 Bratislava, Slovakia
The issue of scientific assessment and the evaluation of the results
of scientific research by means of citations has become the subject
of many discussions. Numerous problems associated with publication
practices and citation ethics are well known. This paper is directly
connected with the reliability of citations and their objectiveness.
The focus of the article is just on this circle of issues. The
author highlights the increasingly topical problems of citation
in the area of creation and the use of electronic documents. This
paper contains some results obtained from surveys carried out
among university students and research workers.
pp. 9-18
VIKTOR KRUPA
Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia
This paper is a reaction to S. P. Huntington's article on civilization
as a possible risk factor in future conflicts throughout the
world. Huntington overestimates the role of civilizational incompatibility,
underestimating at the same time factors of economic nature.
In addition, some of his key conceptions and terms are defined
in a somewhat vague manner.
pp. 19-24
JAN CARNOGURSKY
Karola Adlera 10, 841 02 Bratislava, Slovakia
The consequences of the fall of communism in the countries of
Central Europe are recapitulated in this report. Anticommunist
revolutions took place under ideological slogans but very soon
led to geopolitical changes. The first was the reunification of
Germany. Other changes are now in progress: struggles for influence
in Central Europe, the Balkans, Caucasus, and Central Asia. The
author applies concepts from the article published by Samuel Huntington:
Clash of civilizations? Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993, on
the status of Slovakia. He argues that Slovakia appears to be
torn between Russia and the West. The programme Partnership for
Peace suits the situation in Slovakia. The new geopolitical arrangement
is based on cultural traditions.
pp. 25-30
JAN ALBRECHT
Kapitulska 1, 811 01 Bratislava, Slovakia
This is part two of the Spiritual World of Beauty. Part
one was published under the mentioned title in Volume 4, No. 2
of Human Affairs last year and part three will appear in the second
issue of the journal this year.
Part two consists of two sections concerning art and music: Figurative
Art and the Issue of Style; Music.
pp. 31-52
MARIAN GALIK
Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia
The aim of this article is to analyse the most important aspects
of relations between Venice and the Orient in the course of its
history between the 5th century and the present, especially in
the field of architecture, fine arts, exploration and mutual understanding.
pp. 53-65
Maria KOHUTOVA
Historical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia
Reports on the efforts to reform religious life in Germany began
to reach Slovakia as early as the first few years of the 1520s.
It was met with a response particularly in towns where German
burghers were greater in the number. When Church organization
was broken in Hungary following the battle of Mohacs in 1526,
the spread of Reformation was further facilitated. The archbishop
of Esztergom, Nicholas Olah, made an attempt to remedy this in
the 1560s. Peter Pazmany, however, was more successful. He ordered
Church dignitaries to visit the parishes of their districts more
often in order to inspect the evolution of religious life. Preserved
records of visits, visitations of particular dignitaries offer
documents on the spread of particular religions, Church facilities
and the damage suffered by Churches and the population during
the anti-Habsburg revolts.
pp. 66-75
GABRIELA KILIANOVA
Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Jakubovo
nam. 12, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia
This paper studies the coexistence of ethnic groups in Central
Europe. Through the use of examples from research in the border
area, we shall try to show ethnic stereotypes and their influence
on everyday contact among people at a microsocial level.
pp. 76-83
EVA KREKOVICOVA
Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Jakubovo
nam. 12, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia
Folklore reflects several aspects of cultural history in a more
penetrating way than other preserved historical sources. Attitudes
and stereotypes are not mirrored directly but the reflection of
reality is specific. Folklore does not take account of time relations
and chronological succession, nor the present situation nor regional
peculiarities.
Folklore plays an important role in the processes of "ethnicization
of culture", its role often being "alternative".
This is why multiple mythicizing takes place in the relation between
folklore and ethnic group (nation). The article analyses the transformation
of the shepherdic image in folklore to that of Slovak national
identification in the period from the 16th to the 20th centuries
at three levels: folklore, pseudofolklore and nation-identifying.
pp. 84-96