What is Capitalism? A Civilization, a Production Mode, a Good Idea or Something Else?
On the book of Joyce Appleby: The relentless revolution. A history of capitalism. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
Resignation, ‘Better not to Know’, Being Busy Bees. Variations on Withdrawal No. 3 ‘The Freedom of Resignation’
This chapter of the series is examining questions related to the establishment and demolition of a comprehensive horizon. Namely, the situation when the position reached intellectually – due to various reasons – becomes temporarily or permanently untenable in practical behaviour (thus as result also intellectually untenable). The trajectory consists of a rise and a decline or retreat.
The Identity and Identities of Attila József
Identity – argues the author – can be seen as three layers built in each other: personal identity as peculiarity or the base, mankind as generality and mediation as a particular layer. The search for identity by József is one the one hand well known but on the other hand is – as all intellectual nuances – somewhat forgotten. Of course, the identity of the poet is in his poems – in his personality, epoch, heritage and future, as to say in his proletarian heritage.