33 research outputs found
Jerzy Grotowski’s Journey to the Inside, or How to Set Up a Theatre Laboratory in PRL (and survive)
No full textThe purpose of my research is to demonstrate how and why Grotowski was involved with the politics and political system in Communist Poland – not only to what extent he was compromised but to what extent he compromised the authorities. I am especially concerned with determining the levels of risk, professional and personal, to which Grotowski was exposed, and what extent the Polish Secret Police and Communist Party were involved. Many people has been writing and a lot has been written on Grotowski’s theatre in general, but not about Grotowski’s theatre as an institution. The author has discovered some rare and precious materials. These are some interesting secret police files discovered in IPN. These facts and documents convey special knowledge: a revision of some stereo types or even myths about Theatre of 13 Rows in Opole period.AGNIESZKA WÓJTOWICZ – dr, pracuje w Instytucie Językoznawstwa Uniwersytetu Opolskiego. Zainteresowania naukowe: polskie teatry dramatyczne w Wilnie w latach 1918–1939; teatr Jerzego Grotowskiego; polski teatr współczesny; teatr i polityka w latach 1945–1989. Autorka monografii: Od Orfeusza do Studium o Hamlecie. Teatr 13 Rzędów w Opolu (1959–1964), Wrocław 2005. Film dokumentalny: Gra z pamięcią. Jerzy Grotowski w Opolu. Realizacja: Teresa Kudyba, Agnieszka Wójtowicz, 2009.Uniwersytet OpolskiGrotowski J., [Przemówienie Jerzego Grotowskiego na II Plenarnym Posiedzeniu Tymczasowego Komitetu Centralnego Związku Młodzieży Socjalistycznej], [w:] J. Grotowski, Teksty zebrane, Warszawa 2012.Dubiel P. jr, Krzywa linia, „Co dalej” (Katowice) 1957.Grotowski J., Cywilizacja i wolność – nie ma innego socjalizmu, „Walka Młodych” 1957, nr 6.Bratkowski S., Chełstowski S., Do widzenia POLA, ulotka odbita na powielaczu, archiwum prywatne.Hernas Cz., Notatki o Jerzym, „Notatnik Teatralny” 2001, nr 22–23.Dziewulska M., Romantyzm trzeźwego wieku. Za duże buty (cz. II), „Didaskalia” 2005, nr 69.Flaszen L., Dziady. Komentarz do inscenizacji Grotowskiego. Teatr 13 Rzędów. „Materiały – Dyskusje” 1961, nr 6.Puzyna K., Grotowski i dramat romantyczny, [w:] K. Puzyna, Półmrok, Warszawa 1982, s. 138.Flaszen L., „Kordian”. Komentarz do inscenizacji J. Grotowskiego. Teatr 13 Rzędów. „Materiały – Dyskusje” 1962, nr 7.4440542
A (Re-)creative Voyage on the Ark to the End of the World, or How an Author Fashioned Himself as a God, or a Diablo with Darwin: On Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos
No full textThis paper analyzes the novel Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in its thematic and formal dimensions. The author aims, first, to identify the work’s references to scientific issues concerning Darwin’s theory of evolution and so-called “social Darwinism.” Secondly, he identifies the novel’s strictly literary references, the citation of which allows him to draw conclusions about the nature of its intertextuality. Of particular relevance here is the relationship of the Galapagos with the biblical myth of the Flood. As a result, the author of the article substantiates the hypothesis that Vonnegut consistently cultivates, for deeply didactic purposes, postmodern metafiction with a moralistic [email protected]ł Filologiczny, Uniwersytet w BiałymstokuAllen William Rodney [ed.] (1988), Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi.Freese Peter (1995), Surviving the End: Apocalypse, Evolution, and Entropy in Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon, “Critique”, Vol. 36, No. 3, s. 163–176.Freese Peter (2009), The Clown of Armageddon: The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Heidelberg: Druck.George P.J. (2011), Devastation of Nature and the Devaluation of Life: Ecological Concerns in Kurt Vonnegut, “Literary Insight”, Vol. 2, s. 86–91.Jameson Frederic (1982), Progress Versus Utopia: or, Can We Imagine the Future?, “Science Fiction Studies”, Vol. 9, No. 2, s. 147–158.Longman Tremper (2001), Song of Songs, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.Marshall Ian (2017), Kurt Vonnegut’s “Homage to Santa Rosali”: “The Patroness of Evolutionary Studies” and “Galapagos”, “Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture”, Vol. 1, Iss. 1, s. 137–148.McInnis Gilbert (2011), Evolutionary Mythology in the Writings of Kurt Vonnegut, Palo Alto: Academica Press.Mustazza Leonard (1990), Forever Pursuing Genesis: The Myth of Eden in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses.Mustazza Loonard (1991), A Darwinian Eden: Science and Myth in Kurt Vonneguts “Galapagos”, “Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts”, Vol. 3, Iss. 2, s. 55–65.Pardee Shiela (2015), Drifting and Foundering: Evolutionary Theory in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Galapagos”, w: Shipwreck and IslandMotifs in Literature and the Arts, ed. B. le Juez, Rodopi: Brill, s. 249–265.Priyadharshini Ms. S., Fantasy: An Alternative World to the World of Reality in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos, “The Indian Review of World Literature in English” 2017, Vol. 13, No. 1, s. 14–20.Rosen Elizabeth K. (2008), Apocalyptic Transformation: Apocalypse and the Postmodern Imagination, Lanham: Lexington Books.Świderkówna Anna (1995), Rozmowy o Biblii, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.Vonnegut Kurt (1992), Galapagos, przeł. D. Józefowicz, Warszawa: Czytelnik.Vonnegut Kurt (1996), Rzeźnia numer pięć, przeł. L. Jęczmyk, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Da Capo.1924326
From “where I live” to “my slave songs”: Integrity and Extension in Wanda Coleman’s Poetry
Get PDFThis article discusses Wanda Coleman’s poetry in terms of two interconnected categories which launched the studies of black literature by Craig Werner: “integrity” and “extension”. These categories are assumed to correspond to the standard critical perception of Coleman’s oeuvre as content- and form-oriented, respectively, where the former pre-conditions the latter. However, the implemented concepts not only demonstrate how well-acquainted the poet was with the everyday ghetto lives of poor black women and with multiple forms of discrimination against them (“integrity”), but also reveal her experimental attitude to language and to formal dimensions of poetry (“extension”). Also, a close reading of Coleman’s protracted series of American jazz sonnets and her “Retro Rogue Anthology” poems reveals that this formal strategy extended her attention to a new subject matter (i.e., history, culture, and black identity), perceived and presented from a collective black perspective. Eventually, Coleman’s re-writing of white classic poems bears the marks of the strategy of Signifyin(g) combined with the iconoclastic tradition pioneered by Friedrich [email protected] Kamionowski is an Associate Professor at the University of Białystok. His Ph.D. dissertation entitled New Wine in Old Bottles. The Virtuality of the Presented World in Angela Carter’s Fiction (1999) was written under supervision of Professor Jacek Wiśniewski, who had kindly agreed to take the Polish literature graduate under his scholarly wing. Jerzy Kamionowski is the author of Głosy z “dzikiej strefy” (Voices from the “wild zone”) (2011) on poetry of three women writers of the Black Arts Movement: Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, and Audre Lorde, and From the House of the Slave to the Home of the Brave. The Motif of Home in Poetry by Black Women since the late 1960s (2019). Presently, he takes interest in the poetry of the post-BAM generation, as well as the representations of the Middle Passage in African American literature.University of Białystok, PolandBaraka, A. (Jones, L.) & Fundi (Billy Abernathy).1970. In Our Terribleness (Some elements and meaning in black style). Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.Browne, M.L. 2022. “Introduction.” Coleman, Wanda. Heart First into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets. Boston: Black Sparrow Press.Coleman, W. 1979. Mad Dog Black Lady. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press.Coleman, W. 1983. Imagoes. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press.Coleman, W. 1988. On Theloniousism. Caliban 14: 67–79.Coleman, W. 1998. Bathwater Wine. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press.Coleman, W. 2001. Mercurochrome: New Poems. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press.Coleman, W. 2022. Heart First into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets. Boston: Black Sparrow Press.Collins, P. H. 1991. Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, 76–106. New York/London: Routledge.Comer, K. 1999. Revisiting Western Criticism through Wanda Coleman. Western American Literature 33/4: 356–383.Czemiel, G. 2014. Taking Out the Trash: Mina Loy’s Exorcising of Modernist Aesthetics. In: M. Wiśniewski (ed.) Ex(o/e)rcising Modernism, 10–37. Warszawa: SWPS.Durczak, J. 2003. Grupa poetycka Black Mountain. In: A. Salska (ed.), Historia literatury amerykańskiej XX wieku, 165–178. Kraków: Universitas.Gates, H. L, Jr. 1988. The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning. The Signifying Monkey. A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism, 44– 88. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.Jones, L. (Amiri Baraka). 1966. City of Harlem. Home. Social Essays. 87–93. New York: William Morrow & Co.Kent, G. 1972. Blackness and the Adventure of Western Culture. Chicago: Third World Press.Magistrale, T. 1989. Doing Battle with the Wolf: A Critical Introduction to Wanda Coleman’s Poetry. Black American Literature Forum 23.3: 539–554.Magistrale, T. & Ferreira, P. 1990. Sweet Mama Wanda Tells Fortunes: An Interview with Wanda Coleman. Black American Literature Forum 24.3: 491–507.Mitchell, W. J. T. 2012. Seeing Through Race. Cambridge, Massachusetts/London: Harvard University Press.Nietzsche, F. 2003. Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ. Trans. by R. J. Hollingdale. London: Penguin Books.Ryan, J. 2015. The Transformative Poetics of Wanda Coleman’s “American Sonnets”. African American Review 48.4: 415–429.Pereira, M. 2010. Wanda Coleman. In: M. Pereira (ed.). Into a Light Brilliant and Unseen: Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets, 9–44. Athens: University of Georgia Press.Sanchez, S. 1969. Home Coming. Detroit: Broadside Press.Werner, Craig. 1986. New Democratic Vistas. In: J. Weixlemann & Ch. J. Fontenot (eds.). Belief vs. Theory in Black American Literary Criticism, 47–84. Greenwood, Florida: The Penkevill Publishing Company.Wiśniewski, M. 2014. Introduction. In: M. Wiśniewski (ed.) Ex(o/e)rcising Modernism, 7–9. Warszawa: SWPS.41 (2/2023)355
“Superreal images for superreal people”. Black self-representation as self-invention in poetry and visual art of the black arts movement: the wall of respect
Get PDFThe article entitled “'Superreal images for SUPERREAL People.' Black Self-Representation as Self-Invention in Poetry and Visual Art of the Black Arts Movement: The Wall of Respect” provides an analysis of the representation of African Americans by Black Arts Movement poets and visual artists involved in making the Wall of Respect, the most famous Black Power mural. Resisting, challenging and rejecting the controlling white gaze, through their verbal and visual acts of self-representation, they made an attempt to achieve a “better and truer self” for American blacks, which resulted in black myth-making and self-invention. That phenomenon is explored here through an examination of the history, legend and aesthetics of the mural, which is approached as a multimedia Poem of the People, whose interplay of various artistic forms of expression is aimed at liberation from the oppressiveness of white cultural hegemony, achieving “visibility,” and practicing “truly black” image-making. More specifically, special attention is given to its literary component – Amiri Baraka's poem “SOS,” which is embedded in the mural, and two poems entitled “The Wall,” written for that occasion by Haki Madhubuti and Gwendolyn Brooks, the latter poem read at the opening ceremony by its author. Detailed reading of the poems demonstrates how the written/spoken word assisted and enhanced visual black self-invention and projected-cum-generated a sense of togetherness and collective identification by creating an ultra-positive image of “new blacks,” and stigmatizing “negro toms” who stood for old-fashioned integrationism. Also, through condensed references to theories pertaining to the nature of image, visual representation and the power of the gaze (by Plato, Heidegger, Sartre and Lacan), put together with concepts of African American culture and expression (Houston Baker Jr.'s “the Black (W)hole” and Robert Stepto's “immersion”), philosophical aspects of the Black Arts Movement's artistic strategy of black self-invention as well as its limitations are explored.Instytut Neofilologii UwBBaker, Houston A., Jr. Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature. A Vernacular Theory. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1984.Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones). “SOS.” Black Magic Poetry 1961-1967. Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1969. 115. Print.Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones). Home: Social Essays. New York: William Morrow, 2009 [1966]. 197-204. Print.Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: The British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books, 1972. Print.Brooks, Gwendolyn. “The Wall,” In the Mecca. New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, 1968: 42-43. Print.Cockcroft, Eva Sperling, James Cockcroft, and John Pitman Weber. Toward a People.s Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1977.Crawford, Margo Natalie. “Black Light on the Wall of Respect: The Chicago Black Arts Movement.” New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement. Ed. Lisa Gail Collins and Margo NatalieCrawford. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 23-42. Print.Donaldson, Jeff. “Africobra 1: African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists.” Black World 19.12 (1970): 80-89. Print.Donaldson, Jeff. “The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of the Wall of Respect Movement.” International Review of African American Art 15.1 (1991), 22-26. Print.Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1968 (1952). Print.Fabio, Sarah Webster, “Who Speaks Negro? What Is Black?” Negro Digest 17. 9-10 (1968): 33-37. 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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979.210-23228/221023
Optimum currency area theory: A selective review
Get PDFThe first part of this paper is a review of significant papers in the vast literature on optimum currency area (OCA) theory. The author focuses on the main classical contributions, then considers modern treatment of OCA theory. The second part considers empirical literature on the types of geographical areas that might constitute optimum currency areas, particularly with respect to asymmetry and symmetry of shocks.
Optimum currency area theory: A selective review
Get PDFThe first part of this paper is a review of significant papers in the vast literature on optimum currency area (OCA) theory. The author focuses on the main classical contributions, then considers modern treatment of OCA theory. The second part considers empirical literature on the types of geographical areas that might constitute optimum currency areas, particularly with respect to asymmetry and symmetry of shocks.
"Monarchy as it should be"? : British perceptions of Poland-Lithuania in the long seventeenth century
No full textEarly modern Poland-Lithuania figured significantly in the political perceptions of Europeans in the long seventeenth century – not only due to its considerable size and enormous commercial and military resources, but also, and just as importantly, due to its exceptional religious and political situation. This interest in Poland-Lithuania was shared by many Britons. However, a detailed examination of how Britons perceived Poland-Lithuania at that time and how they treated Poland-Lithuania in their political debates has never been undertaken.
This thesis utilises a wide range of the previously neglected source material and considers the patterns of transmission of information to determine Britons’ awareness of Poland-Lithuania and their employment of the Polish-Lithuanian example in the British political discourse during the seventeenth century. It looks at a variety of geographical and historical information, English and Latin descriptions of Poland-Lithuania’s physical topography and boundaries, and its ethnic and cultural make-up presented in histories, atlases and maps, to establish what, where and who Poland-Lithuania was for Britons. Poland-Lithuania’s political framework, with its composite structure and unique relationship between the crown and nobility, elicited a spectrum of reactions, and so this thesis evaluates the role that both criticism and praise of Poland-Lithuania played in British constitutional debates.
Consequently, the study argues that Britons’ perceptions of Poland-Lithuania were characterised by great plasticity. It claims that Britons’ impressions of the country were shaped by multiple – real or imagined - borders, whether cultural, economic or political, but also that Britons were affected by the exposure to a uniform, idealised historiography of this country. Crucially, the thesis asserts that references to Poland-Lithuania constituted an ingenious ideological and polemical device that was eagerly used throughout the period by Britons of diverse political sympathies. Moreover, through the examination of the kingdom’s geopolitical role, particularly its fluctuating position as a “bulwark of Christendom”, side by side its engagement against Protestants, the thesis challenges the assumption that anti-Catholicism dominated seventeenth-century British perceptions of the world
Effectiveness of minority government legislation (selected aspects)
No full textContemporary states are facing major dilemmas of governance. One of them is the effectiveness of governance, which can be judged by the effectiveness of the legislation. Today, governments are making efforts to develop major policy guidelines and ensuring their implementation using all available instruments. The main aim of this article is to analyze certain aspects of the government’s involvement in the legislative process and the effectiveness of minority government legislation. The author analyzes the impact of governmental regime on the position of the cabinet in Poland, explains the mechanisms of normative and political influence on the formation of the law and hypothesizes that the functioning of government without a clear majority in parliament makes it difficult, or even impossible to adopt laws bearing great social and political impact on the state. It is noticed that the governmental political base is really crucial when we think about the effectiveness of legislation at all. The assumptions are indirectly confirmed by data on the effectiveness of the legislation of governments in selected years.Uniwersytet Śląski w KatowicachChruściak Ryszard. 2002. Sejm i Senat w Konstytucji RP z 1997 r. Powstawanie przepisów. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sejmowe.Dudzińska Agnieszka. 2015. System zamknięty. Socjologiczna analiza procesu legislacyjnego. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe SCHOLAR.Jaskiernia Jerzy. 1999. Zasada demokratycznego państwa prawnego w sejmowym postępowaniu ustawodawczym. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sejmowe.Konstytucji Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 2 kwietnia 1997 r. (Dz.U. Nr 78, poz 483 ze zm.).Małajny Ryszard. 2009. „Idea rozdziału władzy państwowej i jej interpretacje”. Przegląd Sejmowy. (1): 81-106.Małajny Ryszard. 2001. Trzy teorie podzielonej władzy. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sejmowe.Mistygacz Michał. 2012. Rola rządu w procesie ustawodawczym (w systemie parlamentarnym). W Parlamentarny system rządów. Teoria i praktyka, 282-295. Warszawa: Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa.Mistygacz Michał. 2012. Rząd w procesie ustawodawczym w Polsce. Warszawa: Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa.Mojak Ryszard. 1995. Instytucja Prezydenta RP w okresie przekształceń ustrojowych. Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej.Mojak Ryszard. 2007. Parlament a rząd w ustroju Trzeciej Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej.Mróz Remigiusz. 2013. „Rząd mniejszościowy”. Przegląd Sejmowy. (1): 35-46.Patyra Sławomir. 2011. Wpływ Rady Ministrów na proces ustawodawczy w kontekście racjonalizacji systemu rządów. W Wybrane aspekty parlamentaryzmu zracjonalizowanego, 117-139. Lublin: Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomii i Innowacji w Lublinie.Rot Henryk. 1994. Wartości demokratyczne i racjonalistyczne studium ustanawiania aktów prawotwórczych. W Demokratyczne państwo prawne (aksjologia, struktura, funkcje), 128-142. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego.Rydlewski Grzegorz. 2006. Rząd Marka Belki (2 V 2004 – 31 X 2005). W Rządy kolacyjne w III RP, 257-275. Olsztyn: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego.Rządy mniejszościowe w wybranych państwach świata. Studium prawno-politologiczne. 2014. (red.) Robert Radek. Katowice: Instytut Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa.Strøm Kaare. 1990. Minority Government and Majority Rule. Cambridge: University Press.Szymanek Jarosław. 2007. „Racjonalizacja parlamentarnego systemu rządów”. Przegląd Sejmowy (1): 35-64.Uchwała Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 30 lipca 1992 r. Regulamin Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej http://www.sejm.gov.pl/prawo/regulamin/kon7.htmZakrzewski Piotr. 2009. Rząd mniejszościowy – zagadnienia definicyjne i przegląd stanowisk teoretycznych, 92-102. W Wielowymiarowość systemów politycznych. Teoretyczne założenia i praktyczne uwarunkowania. Warszawa Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa.Zakrzewski Piotr. 2015. Rządzy mniejszościowe w III Rzeczypospolitej. Warszawa: Oficyna Wydawnicza ASPRA-JR.49-6420/B496
Noise, artifact and the uncanny in large scale digital photographic practice.
Get PDFThis dissertation explores the question: why, when encountering the products of many new technologies delivering information via a new media, do I often experience a feeling of disquiet or estrangement? I use the example of laser-photographic printing to explore the issue through a program of practice-based research. The outcome of this line of enquiry includes an original contribution via three series of large-format digital photographic works: Presenting "The Amazing Kriels", Home At Last, and Pure.
In this thesis, which supports the main body of the research, that is, the practice-based research, I will briefly review the case for artefact as noise within photographic printing, articulate a significant difference between the artefact levels of traditional analogue and Lambda prints, present original dialogical evidence for estrangement in the latter, and identify it via readings of Sigmund Freud's "The Uncanny" and McLuhan's "The Gadget Lover", as a function of the uncanny. I will propose an original rewriting of McLuhan's ideas of "hot" and "cool" media, as well as the cycles of irritation/mediation repression within McLuhan's media theory as a direction for future research, and relate them to a shift from large-scale analogue photographic printing to Lambda printing
Rudolf Carnap e o pragmatismo americano: ferramentas para a filosofia da ciência
Get PDFTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em FilosofiaA presente tese investiga a relação de Rudolf Carnap, autor geralmente associado às tradições de pesquisa do empirismo lógico e da filosofia analítica, com o pragmatismo americano. O objetivo, com isso, é de elaborar ferramentas para a filosofia da ciência. Tal relação é trabalhada inicialmente a partir do livro de Carnap publicado em 1928, Der logische Aufbau der Welt, que é apresentado, seguindo Alberto Coffa, como o auge da tradição logicista, isto é, o projeto filosófico que procurava uma alternativa lógico-linguística à epistemologia de Kant. Compara-se, assim, a obra de Carnap ao projeto pragmatista da forma como foi apresentado nos primeiros textos de Charles Sanders Peirce, e nota-se que há uma similaridade nos projetos no que diz respeito a uma relação de oposição a certos pontos de vista de Kant - ao mesmo tempo em que ambas as propostas focam os mesmos objetivos da epistemologia kantiana. Em um segundo momento, apresenta-se e discute-se o contato que Carnap teve com Charles Morris e John Dewey a partir do final dos anos 1930. Os três autores estiveram envolvidos na elaboração da International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (Enciclopédia), projeto de Otto Neurath. A partir da correspondência entre os autores envolvidos em tal projeto, nota-se que Dewey desaprovava as ideias de Carnap e de Morris, tendo se desiludido com a Enciclopédia após a publicação dos primeiros números. Essa oposição afastou Dewey de Carnap, favorecendo sua associação com Arthur Bentley, com quem Dewey desenvolveu algumas críticas ao empirismo lógico e à semiótica de Morris. A tradição recente de comentário da obra de Carnap costuma considerar esse afastamento entre Dewey e Carnap como evidência de que as propostas de tais autores são irreconciliáveis, mas a presente tese procura mostrar que há possibilidade de aproximar as duas filosofias, especificamente após a associação de Carnap com Morris. Assim, prestando atenção aos elementos pragmatistas da semiótica de Morris que Carnap adotou em sua obra, esta tese apresenta uma interpretação diferente das propostas tardias de Carnap, em especial de sua lógica indutiva. Com isso, encontram-se possibilidades de aplicação das ferramentas de Carnap: o último capítulo da presente tese procura desenvolver uma dessas aplicações, a saber, na elaboração de um conceito pragmático de valor de confirmação de modelos científicos. Tal conceito depende, além da interpretação semiótica da lógica indutiva de Carnap, de certas ferramentas do cálculo de probabilidade, como cadeias de Markov, e da filosofia da mente e teoria da ciência de Luiz Henrique Dutra. A ferramenta desenvolvida permite analisar certas características da relação entre as comunidades científicas e as teorias produzidas por tais comunidades a partir do comportamento manifesto (verbal) dos cientistas, sondado por meio da análise de artigos publicados. A aplicação das ferramentas de Carnap em contextos pragmáticos é possibilitada pela valorização de elementos tipicamente pragmatistas em sua obra; isso serve como argumento a favor da proposta de conciliar as obras de Carnap e Dewey e abre o caminho para aproximações mais gerais entre propostas geralmente caracterizadas como lógico-empiristas ou analíticas e aquelas classificadas como pragmatistas.The present thesis investigates the relation of Rudolf Carnap, an author generally associated to logical empiricist and analytic philosophy traditions, with American pragmatism. The aim, with that, is to elaborate tools for philosophy of science. Such relation is considered in first place from Carnap's 1928 book Der logische Aufbau der Welt, which is presented, following Alberto Coffa, as the peak of the logicist tradition, that is, the philosophical project that sought a logic-linguistic alternative to Kant's epistemology. Carnap's work is hence compared to the pragmatist project as it appeared in the early texts by Charles Sanders Peirce, and it is noted that there is a similarity between the two projects in what respects the relation of opposition to certain Kantian standpoints - at the same time in which both proposals focus the same objectives of Kantian epistemology. In a second moment, the contact Carnap had with Charles Morris and John Dewey after the late 1930's is presented and discussed. The three authors were involved in the elaboration of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (Encyclopedia), a project by Otto Neurath. From the correspondence among the authors involved in such project it is noted that Dewey disapproved Carnap's and Morris's ideas, and that he felt disappointed with the Encyclopedia after the publishing of the first numbers. Such opposition took Dewey apart from Carnap, favoring his association with Arthur Bentley, with whom Dewey developed some criticisms to logical empiricism and to Morris's semiotics. The recent tradition of comments on Carnap's work usually considers this distance between Dewey and Carnap as evidence that their proposals are irreconcilable, but the present thesis seeks to show that there is possibility of bringing together the two philosophies, specially after Carnap's association with Morris. Therefore, paying attention to the pragmatist elements of Morris's semiotics that Carnap adopted in his works, this thesis presents a different interpretation of Carnap's late proposals, especially his inductive logic. Hence some possibilities of application of Carnap's tools are found: the final chapter of the present thesis seeks to develop one of such applications, to know, in the elaboration of a pragmatic concept of value of confirmation of scientific models. Such concept depends on, apart from the semiotic interpretation of Carnap's inductive logic, some tools of probability calculus, such as Markov chains, and of Luiz Henrique Dutra's philosophy of mind and theory of science. The developed tool allows the analysis of certain features of the relation between scientific communities and the theories produced by such communities stemming from the overt (verbal) behavior of scientists, studied by means of the analysis of published articles. The application of Carnap's tools into pragmatic contexts is made possible by the highlighting of typically pragmatist elements in his work; this is an argument in favor of the conciliatory reading of Carnap#s and Dewey's works and it establishes the stream for more thorough approximations between proposals generally characterized as logical empiricist or analytical and those classified as pragmatist
