CONTENTS - NUMBER 1, JUNE 2001

A r t i c l e s

IVAN LUKŠÍK: Social Microcultures ...3
JARMILA DROZDÍKOVÁ: Diasporic Landscapes on Maps, Minds, and the Web ...13
MARIÁN GÁLIK: Some Remarks on the Concept of World Literature from Goethe to Ďurišin ...23
MIKULÁŠ NEVRLÝ: The Slavic Question in the Past and Today ...36
JÁN SZELEPCSÉNY: Why does Slovakia Need a catholic University? ...144
N. N KORZH, V. N PAVLENKO: Comparative Representation of Historical Knowledge in Collective Memory (Ukraine and Russia Samplings) ...72

R e v i e w  A r t i c l e s

Ladislav DROZDÍK: Arabic Poetry in Spain...80

B o o k  R e v i e w s

N. F. CANTOR: The American Century Varieties of Culture in Modern Times By Alexander SYCH

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SOCIAL MICROCULTURES

Ivan Lukšík
Department of Child Studies, Faculty of Education, Comenius University, Račianska 59, Bratislava, Slovakia

It is standard practice that social scientists borrow concepts from entirely different fields: for example construction, projection, or culture. It follows from the need to apply new theoretical frameworks as well as from the necessity to provide a more adequate description, an analysis of the changing social world. It is similar with the concept of microculture (and the attribute social would not probably change much) which has a flavour of ”something biological”. In the following study we shall discuss its justification in the description and analysis of human social life, with focus on the social life of young people.
pp. 3–12

DIASPORIC LANDSCAPES ON MAPS, MINDS AND THE WEB

Jarmila Drozdíková
Záhrebská 6, 811 05 Bratislava, Slovakia

As the presence of diasporic groups from every corner of the planet has become an everyday reality of the Western metropolis, the Huntingtonian threat of the ”clash of civilizations” seems to be replaced by the feeling of uneasiness caused by the discovery that our new neighbour is a stranger.
pp. 13–22

SOME REMARKS ON THE CONCEPT OF WORLD LITERATURE FROM GOETHE TO ĎURIŠIN

Marián Gálik
Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia

The aim of this paper is to point out the most important aspects of the theory of World Literature beginning with J.W. Goethe in 1827 and ending with D. Ďurišin in 1992. The stress is placed on the literary and historical conception of World Literature.
pp. 23–35

THE SLAVIC QUESTION IN THE PAST AND TODAY

Mikuláš Nevrlý
Dankovského 2, 811 03 Bratislava, Slovakia

Recently we have been witnessing tendencies to renew pan-Slavism, which already once changed into pan-Russism and pan-tsarism in Russia. To revitalize pan-Slavism today means to revive pan-Germanism, pan-Americanism, and other ”pan-ideologies” which are ultimately incorporated into pan-fascism. The world of today – through the tortures and pains of recent past – aims at democracy and humanism and any efforts to restore pan-Slavism appear to be politically immature and utopian.
pp. 36–43

WHY DOES SLOVAKIA NEED A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY?

Ján Szelepcsényi
Ulica Andreja Mráza 4, 821 03 Bratislava, Slovakia

The first Slovak Catholic University was launched in the academic year 2000/2001. In contrast to the foregoing attempts to establish a state Catholic University, the founder of the Ružomberok Catholic University is a non-state body – the Bishops’ Conference of Slovakia.
pp. 44–71

COMPARATIVE REPRESENTATION OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE IN COLLECTIVE MEMORY (Ukraine and Russia samplings)

N. N. Korzh , V. N. Pavlenko
Laboratory of Social and Economic Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yaroslavskaya 13, Moscow 129 366, Russia
Department of Psychology, Kharkovsky Gosudarstvenny Universitet, Kharkov, Ukraine

The subject of this paper is the study of a personal motivation attitude and a frame of thinking patterns which are the contents of collective consciousness.
pp. 72–79

ARABIC POETRY IN SPAIN

Ladislav Drozdík
Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia

The Arab cultural heritage, especially that part of it which was independently developed in Arab Andalusia, has greatly contributed to the present-day cultural excellence of Spain. Out of a great number of fields, showing this contribution, that of poetry has been chosen with the aim of pointing out the high-ranking place it occupies in the work of Spanish scholars and translators, as well as in the publishing activities of some leading cultural institutions.
pp. 80-95

BOOK REVIEWS

Cantor, N. F.: The American Century. Varieties of Culture in Modern Times. Norman F. Cantor with Mindy Cantor. First edition. New York, 1997. 591 pp.

Profantová, Zuzana: Little Fish are Sweet. Selected Writings on Proverbs. Bratislava, Ústav etnológie SAV (Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences), 1997; 109 pp. ISBN 80-967781-5-3.
pp. 96–100

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