Human Affairs Volume 23 Issue 3

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The world of the printed word introductory

Zavacká, Marína

2013 Human Affairs

doi:10.2478/s13374-013-0131-7

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The reading ideal and reading preferences in the age of Joseph II

Kollárová, Ivona

2013 Human Affairs

doi:10.2478/s13374-013-0132-6

When censorship was reformed during the era of Joseph II publishing and the book trade underwent a liberalisation. Enlightenment conceptions helped create the image of the ideal reader—someone who reads to acquire knowledge or to improve his spiritual life. During the reign of Joseph II reading...

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Booksellers’ networks between the German and Hungarian book markets in the late 18th century

Bulková, Petronela

2013 Human Affairs

doi:10.2478/s13374-013-0133-5

In the study the author focuses on various aspects of bookselling in the late 18th century. The author seeks to describe the book market environment and the booksellers’ community in Bratislava at that time. She therefore documents communication channels between booksellers in Bratislava and...

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Periodical as an information medium in book distribution

Poriezová, Miriam; Juríková, Erika

2013 Human Affairs

doi:10.2478/s13374-013-0134-4

The article looks at Novi ecclesiastico-scholastici Annales (…), a periodical which is a significant resource in book culture research. The authors focus mainly on book distribution and propagation in Protestant communities during the last decade of the 18th century.

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CD-ROM encyclopedias: Extending the Gutenberg galaxy to include computer multimedia technologies

Wasiak, Patryk

2013 Human Affairs

doi:10.2478/s13374-013-0135-3

The aim of this article is to discuss the “multimedia encyclopedia” genre launched in the 1980s, the era of “the multimedia revolution.” Encyclopedias of this kind were released on CD-ROM by several well-respected encyclopedia publishers and were widely discussed as an innovation which would lead...

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Language integration processes in linguistic area studies

Korina, Natalia

2013 Human Affairs

doi:10.2478/s13374-013-0136-2

Globalization has now become an integral part of our lives. One of the basic components of globalization is the integration process that involves all areas of human life including language evolution. We consequently look at this problem in terms of language and natural language processes...

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Worlds of ordinariness: Oral histories of everyday life in communist Czechoslovakia

Johnston, Rosie

2013 Human Affairs

doi:10.2478/s13374-013-0137-1

Just how ordinary was everyday life during normalization in Czechoslovakia? In their discussions of the lives of “ordinary people,” historians have underplayed the fear and secrecy present in the daily experiences of Czechs and Slovaks in the late communist period. In linking writings by...

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Understanding the “footprint of state socialism” in east central European post-socialism

Segert, Dieter

2013 Human Affairs

doi:10.2478/s13374-013-0138-0

The paper outlines the debate on European state socialism as a social and political order. There are different attempts to obtain a better understanding of the core principles of this type of society and a continuing public debate on it. Following the end of the decade of the transition from...

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The current economic and debt crisis in eurozone and crisis of grand theories of European integration

Leška, Dušan

2013 Human Affairs

doi:10.2478/s13374-013-0139-z

The economic and debt crisis threaten many eurozone countries and the very existence of the common currency, the euro. The crisis has meant that some special mechanisms have had to be created (EFSF, ESM) and the introduction of special procedures in heavily indebted countries. The deepening of...

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Social trust, norms and morality

Popper, Miroslav

2013 Human Affairs

doi:10.2478/s13374-013-0140-6

The article approaches the topic of social trust from an evolutionary perspective. It begins by summarising the most influential approaches that have defined specific and social trust and ascertains what causes differences in degrees of trust and how the potential risk of deception might be...

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