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Totalitariankitsch and underground. The semiotic model.
Kubíček, Jan ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
As a consequence of a process of semiotic totalization of public life in totalitarian societies, a system of social, esthetic, ethic and language norms becomes radically altered. This system is partially described in Totalitarian kitsch section, in chapters called Totality, Kitsch, Art, Language, Esthetics and Myth. In a passage called Underground, totalitarian realism and Egon Bondy's and Ivan Vodseďálek's gauche poetry is interpreted as a model reply on totalitarian society conditions. A concept of total poetry is introduced. We ask a question: what actually total poetry is, if not an art? Eleven answers are being sequentially found: 1. it is a complex of apocryphal texts of socialistic realism, 2. it is a game about art, 3. it is culture at the phase of being born, 4. a method of phenomenological reduction, 5. a language game, 6. de-construction of myth, 7. occupation of game position within totalitarian society, 8. a myth, 9. a semiotic clearance process carried out through semiotic rage, 10. symbolization of reality and realization of symbol, 11. call for a game. In the end, we try to define total poetry in relationship to avant-garde, modern art and postmodernism. Three points have been discussed in a chapter called Kitsch and underground: 1. recapitulation of acceptation of Egon Bondy's and...
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Episodic memory for virtual beings
Pešková, K. ; Brom, C. ; Lukavský, Jiří
Episodic memory is from the psychological point of view the memory for personal events. The problems of episodic memory in virtual humans haven't been studied deeply yet, despite it is a key aspect of virtual beings' believability in simulations, virtual drama or some computer games. The character without episodic memory can't answer simple questions, e.g. what he did the day before, and it will suffer problems, when it is interrupted because the information on interrupted task will disappear from memory. In this report the model of symbolic episodic memory for virtual beings based on Gibson's affordance theory is introduced and the prototype implementation is presented. The believability aspects are discussed e.g. whether the character can reproduce his day story and also the technical parameters (memory, access speed) are reported. The report mentions the phenomenological dimension of the model, and the differences between event forgetting in psychology and in the model are compared.
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Health Perception of Homeless People.
CARBOVÁ, Terezie
The thesis focuses on homeless people's perception of their health. First, it should be pointed out that this issue has not been comprehensively analysed and described by experts. The theoretical part describes homeless people, their categories and characteristics and the problematic area of health care. Furthermore, the theoretical part also deals with different approaches to the concept of health and its determinants. Finally, it concentrates on the mental process of perception. The research was conducted using a qualitative research method, a survey method and a semi-structured interview. The research group consisted of five respondents (four men and a one woman) who are clients of at least one service for homeless people. The research group was selected by means of random sampling. The questions in the interview centred on a timeline; that is, how people had perceived their health before they became homeless, how they perceive it now and how they expect their health to evolve in the future. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was chosen as a research method. A narrative structure of themes was created and also the results were evaluated using this method. The most frequent themes that emerged during the analysis were the following three: rationality of thinking, emotional sentiment and moral thinking (or more generally, spiritual contemplation). The research has also often shown a struggle for human dignity. This thesis could help to raise awareness not only among social workers, but also among the general public. The results of the thesis can serve as an inspiration for application and development of social work in this field.
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An Analysis of Social- educational Activities in the Educational Care Centre at Klíčov- Pontis
Balek, Michal ; Mašát, Vladimír (referee) ; Krahulcová, Beáta (advisor)
My work deals with the activity of Educational Care Centre Klíčov - PONTIS, which is residential section of preventive education for children and youth with behavioural disorders. It is the section 1 work as an educational worker assistant with specialization in sporting activities. The first part of my work, consisting of 3 chapters contains some basic facts and concepts connecting with social, psychological and behavioural disorders of our clients, with social-educational activity in general and also with the position of Educational Care Centers in the social support, care and education system. In the second part, consisting of 7 chapters I deal with the factual aims and with the educational system of our Centre. I also deal with the problems and questions the persons (workers and clients) in our Centre are confronted most often with.
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Apropriations in contemporary Czech painting
Špačková, Miroslava
The Thesis named Apropriations in contemporary Czech painting is based on art historical foundations. The aim is to analyze the phenomenon of quotation. The first part analyzes the scientific literature, the emphasis is on analytical branch. The topic is contextualised in Czech and international artistic environment. It represents a fundamental interpretation of artworks. The second part, the research is divided into two parts. The first presents a qualitative research based on structured interviews with open questions, which were conducted with painters stigmatized time of totalitarianism. Article in the appendix shows its use and method of processing. The second part is based on phenomenological interview. They were interviewed three painters (Gerboc, Petrbok, Stech). The aim is reconstuction experiences of these painters in relation to apropriations and classification of their creative intentions into typologies. Individual profiles are based on the interpretation of works of art. The third part - art education - examining the relationship of contemporary art and art education, presents practical examples. Describes the didactic curriculum transformation in the context of concept analysis. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Phenomenology and Economics
Špecián, Petr ; Pavlík, Ján (advisor) ; Loužek, Marek (referee) ; Muller, Karel (referee)
The thesis Phenomenology and Economics is an account of methodological possibilities brought by the phenomenological method into the realm of economic thought. From the starting point of Misesian praxeology the thesis advances to the key contributions of Alfred Schütz whose concept of telescopic ideal type enables us to cross the gap between theory and history. Telescopic ideal type allows us to grasp the specific nature of economics that is, on the one hand, proud of its rigor and precision connected with the formal modelling and on the other hand deals with an interpretation of individual agents in their life-world. Methodological insights developed through this analysis are then applied to the problem of coordination and spontaneous order and to the question of the relationship between behavioral economics and rational choice theory.
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Photon strength functuins in 177Lu from two-step gamma cascade measurement
Valenta, Stanislav ; Krtička, Milan (advisor) ; Kvasil, Jan (referee)
The subject of the study made in this work are photon strength functions. Many models, both based on theoretical as well as phenomenological approaches, were proposed for these quantities, describing the gamma decay of the nucleus, during last 50 year. However, the correctness of these models is still questionable and its verification is the subject of intensive experimental and theoretical activity at the present time. The results of the analysis of measurements of the two-step cascades following thermal neutron capture on the 176Lu nucleus are compared with the outputs of the Monte Carlo simulations based on the validity of the so-called Extreme Statistical Model. Comparison of experimental data with outcomes of simulations thus becomes the basic tool for studying correctness of theoretical models. The experiment analyzed in the present work provides information mainly about E1 and M1 photon strength functions, especially about the so-called scissors resonance.
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Phenomenological reflection of visual artifact methods
Závora, Jiří
The Phenomenological reflection of visual artifact methods such as the possibility of safe treatment of disturbing emotions of the child. Theoretical Foundations of salutogenetic use of Phenomenological reflection of visual artifact methods. Jiří Závora Abstract: The Phenomenological reflection of an authentic visual artifact represents a non- directive method enabling, in the framework of the salutogenetic support of individual protective features (framework: hardiness, resilience and sense of coherency), to cope with disquieting emotions. The functional viability of the method, confirmed at the theoretical modelling level, consists in evocating and maintaining a direct experience of the reflected phenomena and their authentic thematic representation. In the course of an actual experience, the disquieting emotion is made Avare through relating it to the artifact in question. In this way, the emotion is thematized at the level of somatic experience, its character "felt shift" and a long term personality change occurs. The aim of the project is to assess the various aspects of the functional viability of introspection as the underlying approach. It is applied for examining the somatic experience in the course of phenomenological reflection of visual artifact as the chief object of study. Key words:...
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The other as the other body
Čáp, Bohumil ; Kouba, Petr (referee) ; Čapek, Jakub (advisor)
The work poses the question of how is it possible to experience another human. This so-called problem of intersubjectivity is opened within the phenomenological tradition, specifically in the context of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's oeuvre. Most of the attention is, therefore, dedicated to "Other Selves and the Human World", a chapter of Phenomenology of Perception. The main goal is to disclose the nature of the solution presented by Merleau- Ponty and to submit it to a critique. Merleau-Ponty's account of intersubjectivity as intercorporeity shows coherent provided the overcoming of the subject-object dualism is carried further than it is in Phenomenology of Perception. An indication of the direction in which this could be achieved was found in Merleau-Ponty's later The Visible and the Invisible. Experience of another human is, thus, possible to explain if we overcome the dualism of the individual and the general.
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