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Introductory

Introductory The birth of a themeThe symposium in this journal emerged as a continuation of a symposium that was part of the conference on Qualitative Approaches and Methods held at the University of Palacký in Olomouc, Czechia, on the 29th and 30th January 2018. The conference was organised around the topic of “Until the body is without mind and spirit—knowledge of the inner world”. In connection with the conference we proposed a symposium entitled “Body and soul, love and death”. Our motivation “sprang” from an emerging research project on the theme of love. Our focus was on the early stages of love. We were looking for a theoretical platform that had not yet been used but was ideally suited to the theme and in the end we opted for social representations theory. To simplify, the supposition within the context of this theory is that the social knowledge of love comes from a particular source, that it is rooted in some other knowledge, such that it enables people to converse upon the theme. In the aesthetic and non-aesthetic media sphere, and in literature or social networks, there is a multitude of sources that are being continually reshaped—discourses, stories, images of love. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Human Affairs de Gruyter

Introductory

Lukšík, Ivan
Human Affairs , Volume 28 (3): 4 – Jul 1, 2018
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de Gruyter
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© 2018 Ivan Lukšík, published by De Gruyter
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10.1515/humaff-2018-0017
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Abstract

The birth of a themeThe symposium in this journal emerged as a continuation of a symposium that was part of the conference on Qualitative Approaches and Methods held at the University of Palacký in Olomouc, Czechia, on the 29th and 30th January 2018. The conference was organised around the topic of “Until the body is without mind and spirit—knowledge of the inner world”. In connection with the conference we proposed a symposium entitled “Body and soul, love and death”. Our motivation “sprang” from an emerging research project on the theme of love. Our focus was on the early stages of love. We were looking for a theoretical platform that had not yet been used but was ideally suited to the theme and in the end we opted for social representations theory. To simplify, the supposition within the context of this theory is that the social knowledge of love comes from a particular source, that it is rooted in some other knowledge, such that it enables people to converse upon the theme. In the aesthetic and non-aesthetic media sphere, and in literature or social networks, there is a multitude of sources that are being continually reshaped—discourses, stories, images of love.

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Published: Jul 1, 2018

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