Катастрофичното съзнание
Catastrophic Consciousness

Summary/Abstract: The individual or collective awareness of a single catastrophe does not mean that a consciousness is catastrophic. Catastrophic consciousness is not a critical self-consciousness and hence it is determined by non-reflective preconditions, including by value commitments and attitudes to the world and to past, current or possible future events in the world. The author makes the distinction between catastrophic and unhappy consciousness. Catastrophic consciousness (individual or collective) constructs the world in a particular way, but it is itself tendentiously constructed (formed) and, seen from the outside (objectively), it is relative, and can, among other things, be qualified as a false consciousness. A large part of the article focuses on the phenomenology of the catastrophic consciousness specifically produced by the implosion of the totalitarian-communist system in Bulgaria and in the course of the post-communist development of Bulgarian national society.

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