288 research outputs found
New biography of Brzozowski
No full textThe article is a review of Stanislaw Brzozowski biography written by Andrzej Mencwel. The reviewer emphasizes the connection with the author’s earlier works on Brzozowski, indicates the author’s increased interest in the work of the author of Legends of Young Poland. Essayistic and interdisciplinary character of Mencwell’s biography explains well the uniqueness of Brzozowski in the twentieth-century Polish and European culture
Home Cooking, Food Consumption and Food Production among the Unemployed and Retired Households
No full textUtilizing the 1996 Canadian Food Expenditure survey matched with Canadian Nutrient File, we separate actual food consumption from observed expenditure and test the Permanent Income/Life Cycle Hypothesis on the true consumption data. We find that the lower food expenditure during periods of unemployment or retirement (previously reported in the literature), does not translate into poorer nutrition. Household calorie intake and major nutrient intake seem to be unaffected by changes in employment status. We find evidence that unemployed or retired households substitute food purchased from restaurants for food purchased for at home consumption. Further, with the 1998 Time Use Survey we find that individuals who are not employed devote more time for food preparation. Finally we present limited evidence that unemployed and retired households substitute precooked meals for meals made from primary ingredients.Food Production, Nutrition, Consumption Smoothing
Understanding the Outcomes of Older Job Losers
No full textWe use an unusually rich Canadian survey to examine how post-job-loss behaviour and outcomes vary with age of the job loser. We find that older job losers experience greater post-displacement joblessness, and are less likely to return quickly to satisfactory employment. We show that this apparent age effect is not a job tenure effect or wealth effect. We also find that older job losers, compared to mid-career job losers, are as likely to report searching for work, but that they search less intensely (reporting fewer hours of search, and lower out of pocket expenditures on search). They are also less likely to retrain, less likely to undertake a geographic move, and less likely to switch occupations. Thus, the data suggest older job losers are less likely to make career investments after job loss. This may be a rational response to a shorter time horizon, or to more limited labour market opportunities.job loss, job search, older workers
Consumption, income, and wealth inequality in Canada
No full textIn this paper, we document some features of the distribution of income, consumption and wealth in Canada using survey data from many different sources. We find that wage and income inequality have increased substantially over the last 30 years, but that much of this rise was offset by the tax and transfer system. As a result, the rise in consumption inequality has been relatively mild. We also document that wealth inequality has remained fairly stable since 1999. Using both confidential data and publicly available data, we are able to gauge the extent to which the publicly available data conceals aspects of inequality that confidential data reveals
Nowa biografia Brzozowskiego. O książce Andrzeja Mencwela „Stanisław Brzozowski. Postawa krytyczna. Wiek XX”
No full textNew biography of BrzozowskiThe article is a review of Stanislaw Brzozowski biography written by Andrzej Mencwel. The reviewer emphasizes the connection with the author’s earlier works on Brzozowski, indicates the author’s increased interest in the work of the author of Legends of Young Poland. Essayistic and interdisciplinary character of Mencwell’s biography explains well the uniqueness of Brzozowski in the twentieth-century Polish and European culture
Nowa biografia Brzozowskiego. O książce Andrzeja Mencwela „Stanisław Brzozowski. Postawa krytyczna. Wiek XX”
No full textNew biography of BrzozowskiThe article is a review of Stanislaw Brzozowski biography written by Andrzej Mencwel. The reviewer emphasizes the connection with the author’s earlier works on Brzozowski, indicates the author’s increased interest in the work of the author of Legends of Young Poland. Essayistic and interdisciplinary character of Mencwell’s biography explains well the uniqueness of Brzozowski in the twentieth-century Polish and European culture
Miłosz’s Response to Brzozowski. On "Człowiek wśród skorpionów..." ["Man among Scorpions..."] and More
No full textThe aim of the author of the article is to investigate Miłosz’s relation to Stanisław Brzozowski. Proceeding from the interpretation of Miłosz’s Człowiek wśród skorpionów..., and diagnosing his personal motivation for turning to Brzozowski’s works in 1963, the author investigates the avenues of dialogue between Miłosz and Brzozowski, and their unsystematically expresses common points. The article, thus, presents various stages of influence of Brzozowski’s work and ideas on Miłosz: from the 1930s, when Miłosz was inspired by Brzozowski’s left-wing fanaticism, through the common opposition against anti-intellectualism and the Polish identity understood as a set of Romantic symbols and gestures, up to the fascination with Russian culture and Marxism. The deepest affinity of both authors seems to be the attitude of anthropocentrism, identified and exposed by Miłosz himself, and understood as hostility towards nature and belief in nature’s determinism, but also as a formula that gives coherence to the philosophical themes, found in both authors’ work, which are thought to be polarised and incompatible. In the conclusion, the author of the article states that positioning himself with reference to Brzozowski was, for Miłosz, a tool of self-creation, an attempt to control the reception and interpretation of his own work, and to place Miłosz in a separate and exceptional position, akin to the position of Brzozowski, the extraordinary and unrecognized philosopher and critic of Polish early modernism.Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literack
Brzozowski - Norwid, or attempts
No full textEliza Kącka’s book that the present article is devoted to, concerning the reception of Cyprian Norwid in Stanisław Brzozowski’s writings, is a significant publication, a necessary one in historical-literary studies. It is not easy reading, and the methodological strategy chosen by the author, not shunning eclectic approaches, needlessly complicates fairly lucid and comprehensible exposition of the main subject. It is not clearer in this way, and the reader has to put a lot of effort into understanding the author’s particular research activities. This, however, does not influence the fact that the book Stanisław Brzozowski’s Attitude Towards Cyprian Norwid bridges a serious gap in the studies on the reception of the author of Vade-mecum. In the book Brzozowski is presented as an attentive reader of Norwid’s writings, and at the same time a continuator of his way of thinking about man and history. The critic belonging to the Young Poland movement tried to determine a specific mode of reception based on a deep intellectual, ethical and personal communion that should be created between the author and the reader, anchored in the same axiological space
The modes of the existence of history in the philosophical and literary writings of Stanisław Brzozowski
No full textFrom the present-day perspective, Stanisław Brzozowski’s historism seems to be one of those characteristics of his writings which combines the literary writings with the philosophical ones and point at an important clue to understand a complicated set of beliefs of the author of Ideas. Man, literature, and culture are regarded as historical beings, thus temporarily relative and existentially unrestrained, "unready" - as Brzozowski pointed out. The historism of Brzozowski is held under the
patronage of Giambattista Vico. Brzozowski reproached the historians for disregarding in their methodologies the obvious cognitive barriers and the nature of the historical "matter". Such issues still coincide with the reflections on the theory of history and they can be found in the books by e.g. Leszek Kołakowski and Hayden White. Brzozowski conceived of history as of culture - as a mode of existence of the people’s world beyond which one finds the nature - unfriendly and inaccessible to immediate comprehension. Literary and philosophical judgments on the essence of history are interestingly juxtaposed
“Prolegomena Filozofii Pracy” by Stanisław Brzozowski in the context of our murderous struggle for future generations
No full textWithout doubt “Prolegomena filozofii pracy” by Stanislaw Brzozowski sets in a historical perspective the trail which we can go through not only thanks to our serious effort, but also to the intangible internal gesture. According to this philosopher, the work irreversibly determines the shape of our lives; it creates a world of culture. What is more, life is its purpose in the sense that it makes permanent transformations in the world that protects human life – not necessarily our own! According to this new logic, man creates his life and the cognition of himself. Reconstruction of murderous mental rite of work is impossible, because living matter wears just down through the work. However, according to Brzozowski, we cannot know anything except our own life. We constantly think about it, we give it some shape. The author passionately draws from Hegel’s philosophy of process, but he arrives at his own implications. Brzozowski has made a specific identification of consciousness with a deep philosophy. In his opinion, our fear of the future would not be justified if we could rely on the work of our ancestors. However, work remains our constant challenge. In general, a person is very weak and fragile in the face of the world of nature. We are weak when we are subordinated to the objective rules. If a human develops in the work – he and she protects and cares for their truly human dignity. Brzozowski was a rebelious thinker. He believed in the cause of the working class even more than their own strength. I would like to dedicate my article to Stanislaw Brzozowski to demonstrate what a piercing philosopher and a theorist of social thought he was.mgr Katarzyna Popek – doktorantka IHSD Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Instytut Filozofii, Katedra Historii Filozofii2646748
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