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Pirandello a Łódź ovvero Adam Hanuszkiewicz mette in scena Così è (se vi pare)
No full textNel presente articolo si tratta dell’allestimento di Così è (se vi pare) di Pirandello che ebbe un successo notevole sul palcoscenico del Teatr Powszechny a Łódź nel 1989. Questa rappresentazione fu importante non solo per la carriera del regista, Adam Hanuszkiewicz, ma anche per la ricezione della produzione pirandelliana di cui le vicende non furono fino ad allora particolarmente favorevoli. Essa propose nuove possibilità interpretative fin qui celate dell’opera dell’autore italiano. Di fatti, oltre a trasgredire le convenzioni sceniche, secondo alcuni ormai desuete, il Siciliano mise avanti una nuova drammaturgia frammentaria e apparentemente incompiuta che si concentra piuttosto sulla “vita” che sull’“azione prettamente agonistica”. Esponendo un nuovo paradigma del “dramma-della-vita” che sta in netta oposizione al “dramma-nella-vita”, ossia “dramma assoluto”, egli diede vita alla drammaturgia moderna e contemporanea. Aderendo all’ottica teatrale e drammatica di Pirandello, Hanuszkiewicz tende dunque a liberare l’autore di Enrico IV dalle tradizionali interpretazioni che si focalizzavano essenzialmente sul suo sistema chiamato “pirandellismo” oppure sul presunto “esistenzialismo”. Il regista polacco non esitò ad adottare il dramma ai tempi moderni, senza però intaccare i presupposti “ideologici” dell’opera: Hanuszkiewicz la rilesse secondo la chiave contemporanea ed anche profondamente personale, scoperchiandone il suo carattere sempre attuale nonché universale che poteva essere accolto con comprensione e ammirazione non solamente in Italia. L’articolo ripercorre quindi la fortuna dello spettacolo che, al pari dei Giganti della montagna, messo in scena da Izabella Cywińska (1974), aprì una nuova strada alla riscoperta dell’opera dello scrittore agrigentino.In this article we are talking about the staging of Pirandello’s So It Is (If You Think So) who had a remarkable success on the stage of the Teatr Powszechny in Łódź in 1989. This representation was important not only for the career of the director, Adam Hanuszkiewicz, but also for the reception of Pirandello’s dramatic production, of which the fortune was not until then particularly favorable. It proposed new interpretative possibilities hitherto hidden in the work of the Italian author. In fact, in addition to transgressing the stage conventions, according to some by now obsolete, the Sicilian put forward a new fragmentary and apparently unfinished dramaturgy that focuses rather on “life” than on “purely agonistic action”. By exposing a new paradigm of the “drama-of-life” which stands in clear opposition to the “drama-in-life”, that is “absolute drama”, he gave birth to modern and contemporary dramaturgy. Adhering to Pirandello’s theatrical and dramatic outlook, Hanuszkiewicz therefore tends to free the author of Henry IV from traditional interpretations that focused essentially on his system called “pirandellism” or on the alleged “existentialism”. The Polish director did not hesitate to adopt the drama in modern times, without however affecting the “ideological” presuppositions of the work: Hanuszkiewicz reinterpreted it according to the contemporary and also deeply personal key, discovering its always current and universal character that could be accepted with understanding and admiration not only in Italy. The article therefore traces the fortune of the dramatic performance which, as same as The Mountain Giants, staged by Izabella Cywińska (1974), opened a new road to the rediscovery of the work of the writer from Agrigento
The structure of the O-specific polysaccharide of the lipopolysaccharide from Pantoea agglomerans strain FL1
No full textMechanistic Insights into the Function of the α-Helical Tail in Haemophilus
No full textvii, 31 p.The cell wall of Gram-negative bacteria is a double membrane structure which contains
lipopolysaccharides (LPS) consisting of lipid A molecules, core oligosaccharides, and Oantigens
in the outer membrane. The eight carbon sugar 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate (KDO)
is a highly conserved moiety in the LPS, serving as a fundamental link between lipid A and core
oligosaccharide molecules. Inhibition of KDO biosynthesis is lethal to most bacteria,
implicating this pathway as an ideal target for the development of novel antimicrobial agents.
KDO 8-phosphate phosphatase (KdsC), which cleaves the phosphate group from KDO 8-
phosphate to yield KDO, is one of four key enzymes in the KDO biosynthetic pathway. In
Escherichia coli, KdsC has been characterized as a homotetrameric protein with each subunit
containing a random-coiled C-terminal tail which has been shown to play a potential role in the
enzyme’s catalytic cycle. In Haemophilus influenzae, KdsC similarly consists of a
homotetrameric structure with an α-helical C-terminal tail in each subunit. A truncated (tail-less)
derivative of H. influenzae KdsC was constructed by cleavage of the last eighteen C-terminal
amino acid residues through site-directed mutagenesis to investigate the role of the α-helical tail.
Both native and truncated H. influenzae KdsC were cloned, overexpressed, and purified to
apparent homogeneity. Preliminary data from crude cell-free protein extracts showed that the
activity of the native enzyme was 33-fold greater than that of the truncated derivative, as
determined by a malachite green assay to assess inorganic phosphate release. These results
provide further insight into KdsC as a potential target to inhibit KDO biosynthesis, and
subsequently inhibit the proliferation of pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria.Department of Medicinal Chemistry. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan.National Science FoundationUniversity of Michigan. College of Pharmacy.National Science Foundatio
Philosophia fundamentalis Friedricha Adolfa Trendelenburga
No full textFriedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802–1872) is an author who connects two periods. On the one hand, he attended the lectures of one of the first followers of Immanuel Kant — Karl Leonhard Reinhold, he knew personally
and was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling. On the other hand, Trendelenburg has educated a very large group of important figures within the German philosophy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century (e.g., Wilhelm Dilthey, Franz Brentano and Hermann Cohen). His main work, Logische Untersuchungen (Logical investigations), was to see its release in three editions during his life. In the second edition Trendelenburg adds an introductory chapter, entitled Logik und Metaphysik als grundlegende Wissenschaft [Logic and metaphysics as a basic science]. It presents the idea of philosophy as a science and, like a lens, focuses on the most influential metaphilosophical solutions of the second half of the nineteenth century. The article in its first part presents the academic biography of Trendelenburg, while in the second it discusses the most important meta‑philosophical problems raised in Logische Untersuchungen
Intoduction to the Issue (2011/2)
No full textSeven articles — out of the nine presented here to the Reader — undertake our leading theme: Tracing Liminal and Boundary Experience in Philosophical and Religious Discourse. Three articles from that group (written by Małgorzata Bogaczyk-Vormayr, Piotr Augustyniak and Anna Szyrwińska)explore various aspects of the boundary experience in a historical perspective. The next four pick up the same theme in a contemporary perspective: the articles of Joachim Piecuch, Tadeusz Gadacz and Antoni Szwed discuss the philosophy of Józef Tischner, the article by Urszula Idziak presents the debate between Jacques Derrida and Paul Ricoeur concerning the boundary experience of death. The remaining two articles published here are not connected with the leading theme — Magdalena Nowak presents a history of the concept of Einfühlung and Jacquette Dale tries to improve the diagram method used in logical argument analysis
Isolation and structural as well as immunological characterization of the cell wall components from cowshed bacteria
No full textPrevotella denticola Lipopolysaccharide from a Cystic Fibrosis Isolate Possesses a Unique Chemical Structure
No full textWe report the first complete structural characterization of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from a cystic fibrosis (CF) clinical isolate of Prevotella denticola (B003V1S1X). Chemical, spectroscopic, and spectrometric analyses revealed a unique rough-type LPS (LOS) structure. The structure has a highly negatively charged heptasaccharide core region containing hexoses, with the first two sugars, 3-deoxy-D-manno-oct-2-ulosonic acid (Kdo) and mannose, highly phosphorylated. Furthermore, the lipid A moiety has the typical structure for the genus Prevotella, and was also highly phosphorylated.</p
Problem autonomii kształcenia w pedagogice Paula Natorpa
No full textThis article presents the idea of the autonomy of self-formation (Bildung) as the guiding idea of Natorp’s pedagogy. In his late texts, the author modifies this idea. Using the distinction made by Sergius Hessen, one can show that Natorp moves on from the abstract notion of autonomy to autonomy as completeness. This transition triggers a very strong critical potential of Natorp’s project. The aim of the article is to show this potential.</jats:p
Cultural critic as a theory of rationality. On the Philosophy of symbolic forms by Ernst Cassirer
No full textThe publication of the first, comprehensive Polish translation of Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy of symbolic forms raises the question about the validity of the research project presented in this work. The author of the paper claims that Cassirer created a coherent research program that can be read as a very interesting theory of the crisis of culture understood as the fundamental moment of the manifestation of human rationality, without which human culture-forming activity would not be possible at all. From this perspective, the crisis of culture — one of the leading threads in the humanities and social thought in the period between the First and Second World Wars — is not identical with the decline of Western culture, but should be treated as a starting point for a critical theory of rationality, which can also be applied within
the perspective of the contemporary philosophy of culture
