Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

Die Frage der Wahrheit gehört zu den zentralen Problemen der Philosophie und der Kunst. Dieser Band nimmt eine häufige Kontrastierung kritisch in den Blick: Die Abgrenzung der ganzheitlichen Darstellung der Wirklichkeit und Wahrheit in der Kunst von abstrakten philosophischen Diskursen. Wirklichkeit des Daseins ist die Thematik menschlicher Existenz, die zur Frage nach Wahrheit aufrufen kann. Der Weg aus dem bedeutungsleeren philosophischen Wahrheitsbegriff führt daher über die Erkenntnis, dass Wahrheit als ein Wertbegriff des menschlichen Lebens und der menschlichen Gesellschaft zu verstehen ist. Goethe sieht in der Wahrheit den höchsten Wert für die Erkenntnis, den Glauben oder das Handeln. Im Begriff ›Wahrheit‹ dominiert ein ethischer Anspruch, der sich im geistigen Leben verabsolutiert und mit einer unverbindlichen Liebeserklärung endet. Der Wahrheitsanspruch eines Kunstwerkes in seinem in sich geschlossenen Ganzen sucht Innerlichkeit und Vision, die zur echten Wahrheit des Lebens helfen will.

From Ancient to Modern European Literary and Critical Discourse

Reality and Truth in Literature

Politike reprezentacije v Jugovzhodni Evropi na prelomu stoletij

Jason Blake

The Slovenian dramatist, poet, literary critic and essayist Ivan Cankar (1876-1918) was one of the greatest Slovenian writers and stylists, as well as the pioneer of modern Slovenian literature. This book, a follow-up to the author's study &ltI>Mirror of Reality and Dreams: Stories and Confessions of Ivan Cankar, is the second English-language monograph on Cankar's literary oeuvre. Whereas the first study focused on Cankar's social and moral criticism, this monograph sheds light on the mother and woman as portrayed in his works. Through the figure of the mother, Cankar reveals his delicate and subtle relation to weaker individuals in general; the figure of woman in his works illustrates his complicated, often two-fold, internally contradictory relation to love and sexuality.

Representations of the Mother and Woman in the Literature of Ivan Cankar

The Power of Love and Guilt

The book shows Ivan Cankar (1876-1918) as the first Slovenian writer to examine the human conscience, justice, guilt and punishment in a way comparable to Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and influenced also by the Bible. Given Cankar's own bitter childhood experience of poverty and his awareness of the ceaseless injustice which rules the world, he has compassion for the wrongdoings carried out by people from lower social realms, especially children, and is all the more critical towards higher classes who cause their suffering. In his last book, &ltI>Dream Visions, he reveals his experience of the First World War. He encompasses feelings of fear and anguish before death and surpasses them with the faith in redemption of all suffering people.

Anthropological Realities and Literary Visions by Ivan Cankar

Justice and Redemption

Božo Repe

Maja Godina Golija

Mateja Ratej

Nenad Čuš Babič

Aleksandra Gačić

Jure Gašparič

Peter Klepec

Petra Testen Koren

Primož Krašovec

Neža Zajc

Prehod sodobnih družb v digitalno stvarnost zastavlja veliko vprašanj humanističnim in družboslovnim raziskovalcem, med njimi tudi snovalcem znanstvenih obravnav biografskih vsebin. Raznovrstne spletne biografske platforme brez neodvisnih uredniških odborov ter vpliv družabnih omrežij, ki uporabnike spodbujajo k zaverovanosti v svoje lastne (svetove) biografije, počasi, a vztrajno preoblikuje tudi mesto, pomen in naravo biografskih študij. Novi pomeni biografije v digitalnih družbah postavljajo pred tradicionalne pisce biografskih vsebin okrepljeno zahtevo o nujnosti ohranjanja znanstvenih standardov na področju biografskih študij, ki so pomembni tako z vidika leksikografije kot kulturnozgodovinskega umeščanja osebnosti v prostor in čas. Prvi del monografije zavzemajo poglavja, ki preizprašujejo odnos družb in posameznikov do digitalne stvarnosti, sledijo poglavja, ki tematizirajo odnos drugih humanističnih ved do biografskih vsebin, medtem ko je zadnji del monografije namenjen poglavjem, ki tematizirajo mesto, pomen in naravo biografije v posameznih zgodovinskih obdobjih.

Biografija na prehodu v digitalnost

Marija Klobčar

Mojca Horvat

Jelka Pšajd

Rebeka Kunej

Mateja Huber

Marija Kozar-Mukič

Ljudmila Bokal

Klaudija Sedar

Jani Kozina

Ivanka Huber

Gleb Pilipenko

Franc Kuzmič

Metka Lokar

Andraž Čarni

Nina Juvan

Daniela Ribeiro

Julia Ellis-Burnet

Knjiga o Prekmurju je delo devetnajstih domačih in tujih avtoric in avtorjev, ki v svojih razpravah obravnavajo kulturne, socialne, zgodovinske in naravne značilnosti te panonske pokrajine in jih sklenejo v zanimivo zgodbo. Pokrajina, ki s svojimi geografskimi in kulturnimi posebnostmi navdušuje naključne obiskovalce in turiste, je predstavljena v vsej svoji raznolikosti in povezanosti s širšim evropskim kulturnim prostorom, ki je močno zaznamoval življenje, razmišljanje in ustvarjanje tukajšnjih ljudi. Avtorji v besedilih pojasnjujejo, zakaj je prekmurska ljudska pesem tako drugačna od pesmi iz drugih slovenskih pokrajin, zakaj ima Prekmurje toliko posebnosti v prehrani, praznovanjih in obredih, katere so značilnosti prekmurščine in njene javne rabe, kakšno je bilo življenje prekmurskih družin nekoč in kakšna so pričakovanja Prekmurcev danes, kako bogata zgodovina Prekmurja zaznamuje sedanjost, katere so glavne posebnosti vegetacije v Prekmurju? V knjigi objavljena besedila osvetlijo to panonsko pokrajino kot prehoden in s sosednjimi kulturnimi območji močno povezan prostor, kar je pomembno sooblikovalo svojske prekmurske kulturne in naravne značilnosti.

Podoba panonske pokrajine

Prekmurje

This book deals with the works of Ivan Cankar, the greatest Slovenian writer, focusing on his relation to existential, social, and moral reality as reflected in individuals and in society at large. The method of literary analysis shows a surprising harmony between personal confessions and a rich symbolism that reveals the writer's unconditional belief in the power of conscience, strong conviction of the sense of victims and the longing for the triumph of love and justice. A holistic interpretation yields the conclusion that most of Cankar's works are confessions that purport to be true to life. His inclination to self-disclosure in dreams alongside the objective disclosure of imperceptible reality indicates that expressive language and a lyrical style are of vital importance to him.

Stories and Confessions by Ivan Cankar

Mirror of Reality and Dreams

Znanstvena monografija Oktobrska revolucija 1917—2017: med izkušnjo, interpretacijo in poetizacijo je dragocen pogled ne le v zgodovino, temveč tudi v socialne napetosti neoliberalnega kapitalizma današnjega časa. Na podlagi svežih pristopov predoči analizo, usklajeno z raziskovalnimi smernicami v okoljih, ki se mnogo bolj posvečajo vprašanjem globalne zgodovine, kot se slovensko. Razdeljena je na deset vsebinskih sklopov/poglavij različnih avtorjev, ki enega ključnih dogodkov 20. stoletja analizirajo z različnih perspektiv (zgodovinopisje, filozofija, psihologija, sociologija, literarna in umetnostna zgodovina), rdečo nit dela pa sestavlja vprašanje oziroma analiza upov in ciljev, na katerih je oktobrska revolucija gradila, in razočaranj, ki so dokončno rezultirala v propadu/razpadu Sovjetske zveze in socializma v Evropi. Slovenski bralec bo v monografiji našel izčrpno zbrane vplive oktobrske revolucije na področjih likovne umetnosti, poezije in filma, osvetlitve osebnih usod, psiholoških posledic ob zamenjavi religije z ideologijo in novih oblik načina in pojmovanja dela pa prinašajo analize, ki omogočajo poglobljen razmislek in angažiran odziv na družbene napetosti sedanjosti.

Med izkušnjo, interpretacijo in poetizacijo

Oktobrska revolucija 1917–2017

This study provides a critical survey of views on reality and truth in the realm of philosophy and literary theory. Its aim is to show how important it is to focus our critical attention on literature itself as a way of conveying a general view of totality of things, with special attention to human life and death, effort and suffering, success and failure. A work of literature and art does not characterize experience and knowledge as such, but rather the response of concrete characters to the problems of human existence and fate. The monograph deals with pre-modern philosophical reflection on reality and truth, with post-modern ways of representation of reality in myth, history, biography, autobiography and fiction, and with sublime perceptions of beauty, love and forgiveness. The views of the writers show that there are important differences in presenting reality and truth in relation to material and historical facts. But the most important distinction is in dealing with dimensions of true life of human persons in their ineffable feelings and ideas.

The themes of longing, weakness and temptation are relevant to every human and are interwoven with all fundamental ideals and values of the created, rational being. Temptation is all the more dramatic, the broader the perspective of recognition, the power of human longing and the sense of the difference between good and evil. This book is a summary of a study which compares and contrasts Slovenian and European literary works created under the influence of biblical source texts (Adam and Eve, Joseph from Egypt, Samson and Dalilah, etc.) and the works of other known and unknown origins (Homer’s Iliad, Goethe’s Faust, various versions of the myth of the Fair Vida, etc.). The ascribing of a text to a genre provides the interpreter of the text with a key intertextual framework and with a system of references to other books, other texts, other literary statements. The intertextual approach is obviously appropriate to the study of contents, symbols and forms of literary works. It shows how the source text continues to speak through the new work and how the new work forces new meanings from the source text. Later writers use important themes with a historical sense, when aiming toward a better understanding of authenticity of human existence.

From Myth to Artistic Creations

Longing, Weakness and Temptation

Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

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