VOLUME 5(2) • 2017
Ghosts: illusion or reality?
ABSTRACT. The existence of ghosts has been and still is a problem of debate between the paranormal researchers and the specialists in the supernatural. Are then ghosts just illusions, or do they represent a less visible reality, in which human beings have always been involved? The present paper surv..
Henri Coandă and the quest through illusion: the connection with Brâncuși
ABSTRACT. Discerning illusion from reality (truth) and reality from illusion – this is the crucial business of science and the essentialist arts. Brâncuși and Coandă have embraced worldviews and philosophies whereby the illusion-and-truth complex equation was addressed in one way or another. We star..
On the resignification of culture
ABSTRACT. In issues such as the question of the ethical responsibility of states regarding asylum seekers, improvement of immigration policies in general, or migrant claims to citizenship rights, the moral cosmopolitan can answer in various ways. It is in this vein that this particular paper chose t..
Vitiligo; or, the dubious attraction of the uncanny
ABSTRACT. Vitiligo, one of the best known, but actually unknown, dermatological diseases was concurrently seen as stigma and divine sign in times of old. As time went by, however, knowledge of and insight into its symptoms and signs have changed for better or for worse – this can be seen in the prog..
Headline emotion idioms
ABSTRACT. Idiomatic expressions are fairly popular in journalistic style, par¬ticularly in newspaper headings and they are aimed at sparking the reader’s curiosity and enhancing the memorability of a comment. The aim of this research is to identify the types of verbal idioms that convey emotions in ..