Publisher: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société (Sofia)

Culturological Studies

Studia Culturologica

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Bulgaria

STUDIA CULTUROLOGICA is a journal for interdisciplinary and international dialogue in all fields of cultural research. As such, STUDIA CULTUROLOGICA is not the forum of any particular school or research tradition. Rather, the journal promotes contacts among philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, cultural history researchers. Contributions of interest for this wide audience will be encouraged. Authors are invited to submit papers and reports of original research in philosophy of culture, philosophy and epistemology of cultural anthropology, methodological topics concerning history of culture, phenomenological theory of culture, analytical philosophy of the humanities, cultural hermeneutics, methodology of cross-cultural studies, naturalistic models of culture, interdisciplinary research in the humanities, and sociology of culture. The reviews should be on recent research in all areas mentioned. Welcome are also discussion articles on particular research topics. In addition, single issues of the journal will occasionally be devoted to the critical discussion of a special problem of culturological importance. STUDIA CULTUROLOGICA is the predecessor journal to DIVINATIO

Sofia Dialogues Series

Поредица »Софийски диалози«

Frequency: irregular and other / Country: Bulgaria

The Sofia Dialogues International Forum, launched in 1996, is held on annual basis. Each year the Forum is oriented around an influential social science scholar and the themes elaborated by him or her. The Forum’s thematic policy is developed in close cooperation with EHESS (Paris). Institutionally, the Forum is the product of trilateral Bulgarian-French-German academic cooperation, but researchers from other countries in Western Europe, the Balkans and North America are also invited to participate. The Forum is held in Sofia and its popularity among university lecturers and students, representatives of the public sector and the media is really considerable, attracting specialized audience of some 300 to 400 persons every year. It not only introduces major, internationally established figures into the Bulgarian academic and public community but also provokes academic debates on their research and methodology in variable sociocultural and geographic context. All this has won Sofia Dialogues the reputation of one of the most significant initiatives in the field, and its popularity transcends the boundaries of Bulgaria. The Sofia Dialogues Series contains the papers and lectures presented under the Sofia Dialogues Forum, as well as monographs and selected volumes by authors whose work is being debated among the invited scholars. The published works are all in Bulgarian.

Divinatio

Divinatio

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Bulgaria

The journal Divinatio is the successor to the Studia Culturologica Series published by the University of Sofia’s Department of Cultural Studies. Divinatio has been published since 1997 with the financial support of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris) and Stiftung Bulgarische Hochschulforderung (Frankfurt–Sofia). It is published in two issues a year: Spring/Summer (in French) edited by Ivaylo Znepolski, and Autumn/Winter (in German and English) edited by Dimitri Ginev. It has an international Editorial Board. Members of the International Board: Alfredo Marini (Milano), Babette Babich (New York), Bernhard Waldenfels (Bochum),Bogdan Bogdanov (Sofia), Christo Todorov (Sofia), Dean Komel (Ljubljana), Enno Rudolph (Heidelberg), Ernst Klett (Stuttgart Frankfurt), Francis Sejersted (Oslo), Gabriel Chico OP (Mexico), Hans-Peter Kroeger (Potsdam), Hans-Ulrich Lessing (Bochum), Heinz Wissman (Paris, Heidelberg), Howard Sankey (Melbourne), Jean Grondin (Montreal), Jean-Marc Tetaz (Lausanne), John Michael Krois (Berlin), John Rundel (Melbourne), Oswald Schwemmer (Berlin), Pierre Kerszberg (Pennsylvania State University), Renato Cristin (Trieste), Tzvetan Todorov (Paris). Editors: Ivaylo Znepolski Dimitri Ginev Managing editors: Daniela Koleva Jana Damianova Design: Vesselin Pramatarov Editorial office: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société 125 Tsarigradsko shosse Blvd., bl. 1, office 511 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria E-mail: damianova@sclg.uni-sofia.bg (Jana Damianova) daniela@sclg.uni-sofia.bg (Daniela Koleva) tel./fax: + 359 2 8705376 Print office: Jusautor, Sofia

Knowledge of the Uncertain: Common-sense knowledge in the theory of action

La connaissance de l’indéterminé. Le sens commun dans la théorie de l’action

Author(s): Valentina Gueorguieva / Language(s): French

Keywords: common sense; knowledge of the uncertain; common-sense knowledge; theory of action

The mode of thinking that we call common sense contains a fundamental paradox, namely how personal sensations - so personal that they are almost incommunicable - form the vision of an intersubjective mode that we share with others, but also the feeling of belonging and participation in the world which characterizes action. We will not be wrong to define common sense as the faculty of knowing, following Descartes, if we only specify that it is a way of broadening one's thinking and opening oneself to plurality. We will not be wrong to define common sense as a virtue, following Aristotle in his reflections on phronesis, if we specify that it is not a formal requirement or a Kantian imperative. It would be wrong to make it a capacity to act, formed in the spirit of a community of judgment by the expanded mentality, following Arendt. The quest for common sense starts from a historical reconstruction, passes through the critical examination of recent interpretations on the Kantian sensus communis and on Aristotelian phronesis, which follows by research on ordinary knowledge in phenomenological sociology, in ethnomethodology and analytical philosophy, to arrive at the definition of common sense as the capacity to know the indeterminate.