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Violeta Decheva, professor in Theater Studies, offers a passionate meditation on the meaning of university education in arts today. Exactly through teaching arts NBU has chosen the best possible way to develop in the students, and hence in the society, an ability to assert one’s own personality while respecting the other and otherness. This is much more than learning the rules of making theater or cinema. The arts are capable of presenting us and the world in the less expected way working both with the memory and the imagination – from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Christo’s Mastaba.
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In his laudatory speech, Y. Eftimov traces the main directions, discoveries and affinities of Michail Nedelchev as literary and cultural historian. The text reminds that Bogdan Bogdanov Award for Humanities is intended for persons reinterpreting and spreading prof. Bogdanov’s ideas and for achievements in Bulgarian context. Michail Nedelchev and Bogdan Bogdanov, among other things, are connected by their criticism of scientific discourse which can potentially hide scientific ignorance and by their broad understanding of the text and its functions.
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The text is a reflection on Barbara Frey’s interpretation of Hamlet at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, season 2018/2019. In this provocative version of the play the act is actually happening on the scene of Hamlet’s consciousness. The ‘inaction’ should be understood literally as the numb, statuary presence of the actor Jan Bülow on the stage and as impossibility of revenge for his father. This impossibility is especially important, it has a physical image in the otherwise ecstatic performance with structure based on music.
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Review of Belogashev's book "Philosophy as a ground science"
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The review comments and analyses main topics, ideas and theses emphasized in Nonka Bogomilova’s new books: “The Religion Today: Between Theos and Anthropos” and “(Non)Humane: Literature Philosophical Projections”. The review draws conclusions that both books analyze the same philosophical-anthropological problems from the point of view of philosophy, and of literature: reason and religion; the challenges of the contemporary philosophical and sociological knowledge of religion; the Cognitive science of religion; the opposition between reason and illusions, dreams, passions – in knowledge production, in love, in ideological indoctrination.
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Polimenov has now authored a second book – Truth and Meaning – which came out just a few months ago and which is in many ways linked to the name and the achievements of the originator of modern logic. It can hardly be otherwise since the logical analysis of language is applying all the techniques of modern logic inherited from Frege.
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The paper presents a volume written by Liliana Anghel in French. It comprises nine articles on Gustave Flaubert’s and Guy de Maupassant’s works, some of them being comparative ones about Realism or Naturalism in their literary creations. To prove the facts discussed in the book, these presentations of the two French authors’ lives and ideas are accompanied by fragments of their works.
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The paper presents recent information published in France about the writer Horia Ursu, our colleague, and his book – The Siege of Vienna –, which was very well received and rewarded in Romania, now translated in French and highly appreciated in France.
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