Volume 51 (1996), 1

The paper tries to outline one alternative of modem European postheideggerian ontology as tending to nonessentialist concepcion of being. This theory grows out of a „partner-like“ model of the mutually related antitheses (opposite poles) of the substantial energy of the Universe. The autor’s hypotheses are based on a comparative synthesis of scientific knowledge… Read more

One among such all-pervasive motifs - even perhaps something of a dominant of contemporary philosophizing on man and culture - is an attempt at appreciating man as a self-interpreting being.

Self-interpretativeness is a complex, multi-level phenomenon embracing, on the one hand, explicit, theoretically systemized „images“ of human being as articulated by… Read more

The paper delas with one of the most original current conceptions of power - that of M. Foucault as one of leading representatives of philosophical postmodernism. In its first part the problematic is outlined, to which Foucault’s conception of power is a response. The second part of the paper gives an analysis of the basic charactersitics of power and power… Read more