Books in the Spectrum Slovakia series

This collection delves into the conceptual and semantic dissection of aesthetic and moral emotions. It grapples with their definition, scope, function, and structure. Highlighting a range of semantic research methods, the authors also present interdisciplinary studies on emotions like anger, admiration, disgust, guilt, and feelings linked to beauty perception. This book serves as a thematic and methodological gateway to interdisciplinary human emotionality research.

The book examines Slovak education as an example of totalitarianism, exploring two opposing sides: the publicly expressed values and ideals of offi cial compulsory education subordinated to government power and the alternative ideals and concepts of unofficial education implemented by informal groups and underground organizations (dissent). The authors seek answers to Hannah Arendt's iconic questions: What happened? Why did it happen? How could this happen? The title of the book also references the dualism in the lives of individuals and families who did not identify with the doctrine of Marxism-Leninism and totalitarian ways of governing. In order to preserve their inner freedom, they lived a double life, one in private and the other in public.

The authors reveal the essential connection of well-whishing and charitable acts with the interior structure of persons. The moral education and realisation of students are inevitably linked to establishment of authentic friendly relationships.

This publication focuses on the characterization of the Slovak party system and its analysis from the perspective of cleavages and emerging government groups. The monograph also includes a description of the individual types of emerging government coalitions and their politological analysis on the basis of the RILE index (right - left positioning).

The book treats philosophical ideas of human freedom, the values of truth, idea of man, sacrum/profanum, as well as philosophical and ethics concepts called higher cultural synthesis works in L. P. Karsavin, A. F. Losev and others. The aim is to reflect their ethical impact on Slavs and on the Slovak society.

The book focuses on face and portraiture regarding philosophical, aesthetical, cognitive, and anthropological attitudes. It represents the author's research on portrait recognition. She shows 11 portraits to study participants, while monitoring them with an eye tracker.

The book deals with the left-wing criticism of global capitalism based on Marxist argumentation. It outlines the division in the leftist politics between alter-globalists and anti-globalists. The author advocates for deglobalization and collective identities and against individualism.

Milan R. Stefanik is a principal figure in modern Slovak history. Who were those that followed him? Osusky, Hurban, Palic, Slavik, Krno and Papanek. Seven brave men, seven Slovaks who left a substantial and permanent mark on Czechoslovak diplomacy and Czechoslovak-American relations in the 20th century.

The book presents psychological interpretations of the specific reactions of individuals in the perception of attractive human faces. Based on research, the authors formulate evolutionary interpretations of why and how symmetry, averageness, sexually dimorphic characters, personality characteristics, etc. increase the attractiveness of the face.

Das Buch bietet eine interdisziplinäre Studie, welche die meistgekaufte slowakische Boulevard-Wochenzeitschrift literaturwissenschaftlich analysiert und die Ergebnisse im Rahmen des pastoraltheologischen Diskurses auswertet. Aus der pastoraltheologischen Reflexion der Ergebnisse wird auf die mediale Präsenz der Kirche geschlossen. Wie wird die Kirche in der Boulevardpresse dargestellt? Wie kann dieses Kirchenbild interpretiert werden? Was kann die Kirche für sich selbst aus der für sie nicht immer vorteilhaften Darstellung in der Boulevard-Zeitschrift lernen? Die Fragestellung ist umso spannender, wenn man bedenkt, dass die meistgekaufte Boulevardzeitschrift in der Slowakei gegenüber der Kirche meistens kritisch ist, wobei die überwiegende Mehrheit der slowakischen Bevölkerung sich zur dieser Kirche bekennt.

The monograph presents the application and practical development of the concept of remediation, one of the major tools of understanding new media. Examples are drawn from artistic practices in Central Europe. Theoretical frameworks extend the concept of remediation to new phenomena and areas of critical discurse, like biomedia.

The book is a philosophical and historical reflection of education and the science of education (Ger. Padagogik) as an academic as well as scientific discipline in the countries of Central, Southern and South-Eastern Europe.

The book essentially discusses whether philosophy can integrate the plethora of various empirical and neuroscientific approaches to the study of beauty or whether it should preserve its traditional a priori basis. In fact, is it possible to unite philosophy and cognitive-scientific analyses of aesthetic perception and assessment?

The volume presents the views of ten authors from four PostCommunist Central and East European countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Latvia) on the impact of emerging technologies on human condition. They analyse the topic from anthropological, ethical, philosophical, ontological, empirical and legal perspectives.

The presented text is an attempt to sketch the basic contours of selected issues in the cognitive research of aesthetic experience. The core themes of the book are methodological problems of the unification of philosophical and cognitive-scientific approaches to beauty and aesthetic experience, and cognitive aesthetic of music perception.

The book attempts to outline the fundamental contours of the possible research of emotionality by the means of analysis of the cognitive aspects of an aesthetic experience. The study presents the results of an impressive methodological combination of philosophical (phenomenological) and current cognitive scientific research.

The book presents a biography of Alexander Dubcek, the icon of the "Czechoslovak Spring" in 1968. It aims to explain his decisions and intellectual development in the context of the turbulent development of the 20th century Central Europe. The text deals with his rise to power, forced isolation and his attempt for a political comeback after 1989.

Language and culture relate to each other. It is important to refine teaching processes to enable language learners to use target languages effectively. This book shows that language and culture should be viewed in their interrelationship as they have a significant impact on the naturalness and appropriateness of discourse.

The fundamental determinant of the success of inclusive education is the quality and permanent interaction of its components. Key components are discussed from the aspect of pedagogy, psychology, special education, therapeutic education, social pedagogy, history, philosophy, psychology, law, medicine in its transdisciplinary correlation.

This practice-oriented and up-to-date monograph provides a sourcebook and reference guide to key trends and issues of sustainable spatial development and to the different approaches applied in European countries. The authors explore landscape consideration practice in European countries, with a special focus on Slovakia.

Dieses Buch ist eine bibliographische Auswahl aus dem umfangreichen Schrifttum zur Geschichte, Entstehungsmethode, Inhalt und Bedeutung der justinianischen Digesten. Obwohl die Forscher schon über ein Jahrtausend diese Hauptquelle des römischen Rechts systematisch untersuchen, bleiben manche Fragen bis heute ungelöst; neue Forschungen beginnen und andere sollten folgen. Diese Bibliographieauswahl bietet eine grundlegende Orientierung in Ausgaben der Digesten selbst und in der anknüpfenden wissenschaftlichen Fachliteratur.

Nur selten erlitt eine mittelalterliche Frauengestalt seitens der Schriftsteller und Historiker soviel Unrecht und ging mit solch schlechtem Ruf wie Königin Barbara von Cilli in die Geschichte ein. In der Literatur wird Barbara seit mehreren Jahrhunderten systematisch geschmäht. Die ersten Werke, die ein negatives Bild über sie verbreiteten, entstanden schon in der Zeit ihres Todes oder sogar noch während ihres Lebens, und sie ging als Schwarze Königin oder Deutsche Messalina ins historische Bewusstsein ein. Die Autorin hat auf überraschende Weise den Ursprung der negativen Legende über Barbara von Cilli sowie ihre Urheber entdeckt. Auf Grund einer detaillierten Analyse der bis jetzt unbekannten historischen Quellen verfolgt sie die Art und Weise, wie sich das negative Bild in der damaligen Literatur und später auch im historischen Schrifttum verbreitete. Die Autorin arbeitete mit bisher nicht veröffentlichten Quellen, was ihr ermöglichte, viele Fehler und Ungenauigkeiten, die seit Jahren in der Fachliteratur im Zusammenhang mit der Königin Barbara erscheinen, zu korrigieren. Das Ergebnis bietet nicht nur Einblick in die Lebensgeschichte der Barbara von Cilli, sondern auch in die gesellschaftliche Stellung einer mittelalterlichen Königin im Allgemeinen.

This book presents remote experiments and remote experimentation gathered in the management system REMLABNET as a new branch of ICT in science and education. It explains the techniques of construction and the required properties. The authors provide useful advice for interested persons to build and use remote experiments.

The book shows the various aspects of understanding cognitive characteristics of aesthetic experience. The authors examine the distinction between ordinary and aesthetic experience and propose with their analysis an introduction to the current cognitive research of aesthetic experience.

This book provides a user-friendly introduction to the process of linking local language examinations to the common reference levels of language proficiency. It encourages local examination providers to assure quality in high-stakes testing, presenting samples and advice on how to improve the effectiveness of local examinations.

The book summarizes knowledge on albeit uncommon, but serious aortic diseases and demonstrates the importance for a publication with a cross-specialty reach. A chapter on aneurysm etiology presents an overview of all etiological groups, allowing the reader to become versed in the topic, while pointing out the less known aneurysm causes.

The essays explore the artistic interactions between northern and southern European artists of the 15th and 16th century and allow for a fresh view of the works by such masters like da Vinci, van der Weyden and Durer. Besides the book presents historical overviews of the complexities of artistic dialog between Italy and Northern Europe of the time.

The development of European labour-law in recent years reflects the efforts of European Union bodies to substantially increase the flexibility of labour relations. Extensive economic competition at national and international levels necessarily requires a higher extent of flexibility in labour relations.