Stan Rzeczy 2(3)2012 | contents

CONTENTS
/ 008 The Relay with Burning Torches
GREEK ORIGINS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES:
/ 012
Norbert Elias – On Seeing in Nature (transl. Marta Bucholc)
/ 022 Norbert Elias – “The Clouds” or “Politics as Science” according to
Aristophanes (transl. Marta Bucholc)
/ 037 Alvin W. Gouldner – Dialogue and Dramaturgy (transl. Konrad
Siemaszko)
/ 048 Michał Kaczmarczyk – Sociological Struggle with Plato
SOCIAL SCIENCES ON THE ANCIENT GREEKS…
/ 076 Lucyna Kostuch – Simplified Heritage. Moderns and Hellenic
Conception of the Divine Anthropomorphism
/ 089 Paweł Armada – (Re)construction of the Socratic Tradition and
Quest for Commonsense in Political Sciences
… AND ON THE GREEKS OF TODAY
/ 116 Przemysław Kordos – Greeks Domesticate Greeks
/ 137 Maria Mycielska-Środoń – National and Cultural Identifications of
the Greeks Born in Poland
/ 157 Ewa Nowicka – Local Communities in Greece Between Religion
and Life
REVIEWS:
/ 181 Dominika Michalak – Bristled Socrates. Alexander Nehamas. The Art
of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault
/ 188 Marcin Nowak – Word Like a Dusty Image. Bruno Snell. The Discovery of the Mind
/ 197 Helena Anna Jędrzejczak – Tomasz Merta. Nieodzowność konserwatyzmu
[Indispensability of Conservatism]
/ 209 Monika Wasilewska – Teachings of Tomasz Merta
/ 222 Tomasz Zarycki – Jan Sowa. Fantomowe ciało króla [Phantom King’s Body]
/ 231 Jan Sowa – Agency and Subjectivity in Polish Historical Debates. A Reply
to Tomasz Zarycki
/ 240 Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer – Jean-Pascal Daloz. The Sociology of
Elite Distinction
/ 247 Mateusz Fałkowski – On Smoking in a Durkheimian Manner. Randall
Collins. Interaction Ritual Chains
/ 255 Łukasz Jasina – On Honest Objectivity or How to Write About
Poles and Ukrainians. Łukasz Adamski. Nacjonalista postępowy [A Progressive Nationalist]
/ 261 Aleksandra Leyk – Adam Mrozowicki. On Coping with Social Change.
Life Strategies of Workers in Poland’s New Capitalism
/ 269 Małgorzata Pakier – The Well-Being of Nations and Memory as
Illness. Karolina Wigura. Wina narodów [The Guilt of Nations]
/ 278 Łukasz Pawłowski – Democracy as Farce. Giorgio Agamben. Democracy in What State?
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:
/ 288 Biographical notes
HOW TO PUBLISH IN „STAN RZECZY”?
/ 294 How to publish in „Stan Rzeczy”?