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In the history (of philosophy, art) there have been different ideas of the body and soul and their mutual relations. First opinions appeared in antiquity, continued in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the modern age, until the present time. The body was mostly the object of investigation, it was examined as a whole and so were studied its parts. In Plato´s philosophy, the body was considered material and the soul intangible. Although he found the soul to be more important, it was not possible to separate them. Ar...

Medieval towns lived in carnival life. It was opposed to the official culture, its norms and rules which were stable, given and serious in their restrictive and rigid form. The ritual and mimetic forms of laughter culture included carnival-style celebrations and laughter ceremonies. They represented different aspects of life from the official ceremonies. Carnivals were a real, though, a temporary form of life that was meant for enjoying. The carnival became a living space with specific rules. It was characterised ...

In the center of our attention is the Slovak cultural tradition in the period of post-modernism, focused on some selected issues associated with the imaging of the human body in the visual arts. The Slovak culture in the postmodern context takes the elements characteristic for the whole postmodernism : unifying world views fall apart and individual, group or regional perspectives are preferred; universalism (the ideas on universal human values and theories) is being desintegrated; logocentrism as well as the belie...