Józef Mehoffer’s competition design for the painting decoration of Franciscan Church in Kraków 1894 has not yet been found. This article is an attempt to reconstruct artist’s decorative concept on basis surviving sketches project, as well notes drawn and written a sketchbook from 1893–1894. The artist, who was Paris February 1894, heard about Tadeusz Stryjeński. project he sent jury May did mee...

The rapidity of environmental degradation and the recent popularity of the concept of sustainability have made clear how successful traditional societies have been in coexisting with nature. Architects, in responding to this rising awareness, are searching for models of the reinterpreta­ tion of tradition, seeking examples and guidelines. Three practitioners who anticipated the need for a reexa...

In recent years, Hjørland has developed a typology of basic epistemological approaches to KO that identifies four basic positions—empiricism, rationalism, historicism/hermeneutics, and pragmatism—with which to characterize the epistemological bases and methodological orientation of KOSs. Although scholars of KO have noted that the design of a single KOS may incorporate epistemological-methodolo...

Colonialism and its after-effects of neo-colonialism and postcolonialism pervade the male-dominated literary tradition produced on the African continent. Within the complexities of these realities, the African woman may be said to be “doubly colonized” and her burdens multiple. Imprisoned then, by the authoritative phalluses which define her daily experiences and which seek to negate the authen...

The history of literary study is primarily remembered as a narrative of conflicting ideas. Critical movements clash, then establish a succession: New Criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, New Historicism. Although scholars have complicated this simple history-of-ideas story in recent decades with an emphasis on social and institutional struggle, generational conflict remains a central frame...

The postmodern discourse on the nature of knowledge is constructed on the authority and reliability which different forms of knowledge claim in various walks of life. This discourse has challenged the major formations of modernity, claiming a sort of objective, authentic and reliable knowledge in comparison with non-evidential forms of knowledge such as arts, literature and revelation. ‘Histori...

Philosophical perspectives are worldviews that define the nature of the world, the individual’s place in it, and the possible relationships to that world and its parts. Learning and instructional theories are developed with respect to a particular set of assumptions regarding what it means to know and learn. It is our contention that when situational variables require some decision on the part ...

This article focuses on how the economic crisis in Southern Europe has stimulated temporal thought (temporality), whether tilted in the direction of historicizing, presentifying, or futural thought, provoking people to rethink their relationship to time. The argument is developed with particular reference to the ethnographies of living with austerity inside the eurozone contained in this specia...