Форумът "Софийски диалози" за съвременната българска ситуация
The "Sofia Dialogues" forum on the contemporary Bulgarian condition

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at presenting a particular scholarly initiative – a series of international theoretical conferences named Sofia Dialogues. Since 1996 within the framework of this forum annual international conferences are regularly held in Sofia. The formula of the conferences was elaborated by the forum initiators and organizers Ivaylo Znepolski and Heinz Wissman and includes the personal participation of influential figures in the area of philosophy and humanities (François Furet, Juergen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Charles Taylor, etc.) and also publishing the conference proceedings in Bulgarian and in the language of the prominent guest. The paper analyzes the way in which the conferences are diagnosing the present-day Bulgarian social, political and cultural condition. The following diagnosis has been drawn from the forum proceedings: it is a condition of an atomized, demoralized, disintegrated society, incapable of generating shared visions about the past and of formulating long-term goals for the future, hardly demonstrating interest in its own theoretical self-knowledge.

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