Tag Archives: Normes & transgressions

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Iwona Janicka. Research & CV

Living on Earth: Philosophies of Habitability in the 21st Century

Axis of research 2. Norms and transgressions.

Contact: Janicka(@)flu.cas.cz

Iwona Janicka is Research Team Leader at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics – Prague (CETE-P) and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She works in contemporary environmental and political philosophy. Her CEFRES project entitled “Living on Earth: Philosophies of Habitability in the 21st Century” contributes to axis 2: Norms and transgressions. For more information, please consult CETE-P and her personal webpage.

CEFRES Team

Tetiana Karabin – Research & CV

“Challenges of the Europeanization of the Public Law of Ukraine”

Contact: tetyana.karabin[@]uzhnu.edu.ua

Research area 2 – Norms and transgressions

Tetiana Karabin is a head of the Department of administrative, financial and informative law, Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine. She specializes in administrative law, administrative procedure, ratio of powers of public authorities. The issues of Ukrainian administrative law transformation of norms under the influence of European integration processes and the principles of good administration as well are in the focus of her interests. She is the author of the book Rozpodil povnovazhenʹ publichnoyi administratsiyi (Distribution of powers of public administration). Uzhhorod: Hrazhda, 2016 [in Ukrainian].   Continue reading Tetiana Karabin – Research & CV →

CEFRES Team, Non classé

Jan Musil – Research & CV

“Thanatographies and the Modes of Literary Mourning”

Contact : me@janmusil.net 

Research Area 2 

In my research at the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Charles University, I am looking at autobiographical narratives concerned with the death of a close person and mourning, which I call thanatographies. 

In the contexts of claims that death had been made into a taboo during the 20th century (Ariès, Becker, Ohler, Jankélévitch, etc.), I understand thanatographies, emerging mainly in the second half of the period, as counter-narratives that treat death in its different forms, such as death of the other, grief, fear of own death, processes of dying, hospitalization, suicide, etc. in a sensitive and complex manner. If the norm is death that is on the one hand inexpressible or radically Other, or, on the other hand, aesthesized, objectified and medicalized, then the transgression is death, dying and grief as a subjective experience, communicated through writing, which is aware of its own performative nature (de Man) and seeks a sense of agency in the grieving process (Blumenberg). I am mainly interested in how mourning is staged using literary means, and I offer alternatives to the widespread Freudian reading of grief writing (not just thanatographies, but elegies and other commemorative genres, too) as work of mourning.  Continue reading Jan Musil – Research & CV →