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The article reflects on the possible reasons for the silence about Stanisław Lem’s Jewish background. This was not an isolated matter in Poland. Thus, the article treats Lem’s example as a case study of the troubled identity of Polish Jews after the ...
Stanisław Obirek
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Narzędzia językowe w sytuacji ekstremalnej. Stanisława Lema fantastyczne światy ze słów
Linguistic Tools in an Extreme Situation. Stanisław Lem’s Fantastic Worlds Built with Words The present issue of "Colloquia Humanistica" contains Professor Ryszard Handke's two last essays, until now unpublished.
Ryszard Handke
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The article is a review of the publication: Okolovsky P. Stanislav Lem and reason. Philosophical studies. Minsk: Galiafi, 2022. 224 p. The author is a professor at the University of Warsaw, researching the philosophical legacy of Stanislaw Lem.
Alexander Yu. Nesterov, Anna I. Demina
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Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz: did he deserve his bad reputation?
Summary A biography and critique of Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz (1731–1807) – lawyer, physician, mineralogist, naturalist, compiler and publisher – is provided. Often criticised as being a mass‐plagiariser, this is commented on, based on a detailed examination of several of his publications.
Nicholas Hind
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The Two Cultures Revisited. Stanisław Lem’s His Master’s Voice
I would like to take, as my starting point, the famous 1959 lecture of C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures, where science fiction is by and large ignored, and see how the consecutive points Snow is making are also discussed in the following decades of the 20th ...
Dominika Oramus
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Sleep and Dreams as Reflected by Science Fiction Literature and Films—Anything to Learn From?
ABSTRACT Sleep and dreams are frequent themes in science fiction (Sci‐Fi) literature and films, often used to explore questions about consciousness, reality, technology and the human experience. Sci‐Fi authors and filmmakers utilise the enigmatic nature of sleep and dreams to blur the boundaries between reality and imagination, raising philosophical ...
Dieter Riemann +4 more
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Le lexique fantastique des deux côtés de la Vistule
Fantastic Vocabulary on Two Sides of the Vistula River. Example of Translations of „The Cyberiad” by Stanislas Lem into Ukrainian and French The work of Stanisław Lem aroused a lot of interest and fascination with literary critics and readers.
Kaja Gostkowska, Natalia Grabar
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Artykuł poświęcony jest dwugłosowi o powieści Stanisława Lema „Astronauci" (1951), który został zamieszczony na łamach periodyku „Nowa Kultura”. Uczestnikami dyskusji byli: Zofia Woźnicka, Ludwik Grzeniewski i Stanisław Lem, będący zarazem polemistą ...
Adam Mazurkiewicz
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Rzeczywistość jest ciekawsza. Ze Stanisławem Lemem rozmawia Łukasz Maciejewski
Łukasz Maciejewski rozmawia ze Stanisławem Lemem o adaptacjach filmowych jego prozy, o „optysemizmie”: rzeczywistości, w stosunku do której ani optymizm, ani pesymizm nie są terminami usprawiedliwionymi, a pojęcia sacrum i profanum wzajemnie się ...
Łukasz Maciejewski
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Revisiting Solaris: Encountering Otherness and the Limits of Representation
One of the core themes of Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Solaris is the encounter with radical otherness. The ocean planet being studied by scientists from earth is usually interpreted as a representation of radical otherness, which eludes human efforts of ...
Monika Anna Slawkowska-Rode +1 more
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