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The symbolistic poem ‘Song of the songs’ (1923) of Theodor Traianov represents an ‘indirect dialogue’ of the poet with the religious-philosophical fragments of Soren Kierkegaard. The triad of subjective experience and the concepts of the original sin and of self-sacrifice (presented in the Danish philosopher's works Fear and Trembling, Stages o n Life's Way, and The Edification Which Lies In The Fact That In Relation To God We Are Always In The Wrong) provoked Traianov into designing a specific philosophical-religious project about the mission of the artist, the intellectual, the new man, the knight of faith. The cultural and historical significance of the poem consists in the creation of a model of self-sacrifice different from that of Pencho Slaveikov – a model of spiritual leadership in the name of the Divine and the future of mankind.
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We have been accustomed to accept as normal the presence of spelling mistakes in translated books. The article shows that taken together these innocent spelling mistakes, abbreviations, blunders in illustrations, lack of subject indices and crippled bibliographies form a surprisingly harmonized system, which aims at the cultural segregation of Bulgarian intellectuals.
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The author introduces to the scientific revolution the term "tablet consciousness" in the context of the research of problems of realization of violence in the modern world. "Tablet consciousness" is viewed as a subjective component of an indirect form of violence; the main tool is a rational awareness by individuals of the necessity and the inevitability of violence ("rational violence"). The meaning of "tablet consciousness" is revealed in the context of the postpanopticon model of functioning of society. Identified and analyzed the following main features of the "tablet consciousness": replacement of a learning process on the consumption of information and knowledge staging process, focusing on the opinion of an "expert", the cult of lightness as a key of life meaning installations and cynicism.
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The article starts with a critical introduction of the historical debate on the political and civic potential of Bulgarian people, and especially of the elitist vision of Bulgarian people as constitutively opposed to modern political forms and state institutions (vision, dating back to elitist discourses from the 18th century). I argue that in the present situation declaring the political insuffi ciency of the people as responsible for the catastrophic situation of the country could easily lead to dangerous political prescriptions. In contrast, I am trying to show that the supposed ‘wilderness’ of people is, on one hand, a rhetorical political fi gure and on the other, a complex devise for collective subordination and control. The neoliberal strategies of ‘getting people wild’ (which precisely are responsible for the new consumerist ‘wildness’ of Bulgarian people – an ‘adequate’ response to postcommunist wild capitalism) represent an extreme mechanism for the depolitisation of the ‘people’ as the collective political subject and for its reduction to a ‘raw mass’, or to a conglomerate of atomistic egoistic and apolitical particularities: they are a privileged form of contemporary biopolitics. The fi nal question of the article is: Is there a possibility for collective political subjectivation and for new emancipatory projects in this new situation, in which the new forms of production, exchange and control are commodifying labour force and forms of life themselves and in that way discrediting the possibility of the common good?
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“Political Correctness“ is part of the so called “Multiculturalism“. It is even associated with Tolerance, but in fact, political practice is a weapon against pivots and foundations of our Western Civilization. Political Correctness means being tolerant with intolerant practices of different radical (left) ideological, religious and other minority groups. In fact, ideological neutrality is impossible because of prejudices of the majority of people as well as results of real history...
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The overcoming of metaphysics is the main goal set as a task by the Vienna Circle. It can be reached by the differentiation of the "real" knowledge and the "real" science from the "pseudoscience" on the basis of the "scientific perception of the world" ("wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung") with the help of a logical analysis of language and verification. From this position anything that cannot by verified lacks sense. Senseless are the propositions of philosophy, too. But the fight against philosophy is a "fight with windmills" because these philosophers do not realise that the denial of philosophy is philosophy itself.
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Book review of Angel Tsvetkov's book - Protosotsiologiya. Blagoevgrad: Universitetsko izdatelstvo „Neofit Rilski“, 2015.
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The focus of the present paper is the EU Directive for accelerated integration of Europe-related topics in the educational process with the aim of building a unified European identity as a prerequisite for the success of Intra-European integration. The counterarguments about this initiative are presented by pointing out ways of its modification in the context of the ‘Doing European’ concept, alternative to European identity. The paper introduces modern literary works in German whose topic is the critical and ironic view of the European identity and the European values system, and which raise the issue of their reconsideration in contemporary European context – the Austrian writer Ulrike Längle’s short story ‘Freude schöner Götterfunken’: a banal reading of Schiller’s aesthetics based on the idea of personal freedom and the inviolability of human dignity, and the German author Ulrike Draesner’s ‘Europa’ depicting the European continent as a jig-saw puzzle whose pieces can be randomly moved and rearranged
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The author of this essay is the deputy director of Institute for economic strategies at the Social sciences division of the Russian Academy of sciences, the Chairman of the Committee for social and cultural problems of globalization, etc. The essay is part of his latest work The Russian World. A Civilization of Many Peoples, 2010. It deals with the main characteristics of the Russian faith.
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This article aims to reveal the metaphysical background of Roger Bacon’s natural philosophy. Bacon attributes all natural causation to the “multiplication of species”. “Species” designates the “first effect of any naturally-acting thing”. It is the virtue or likeness of any natural power propagated from that power in all directions through suitable media. “Species”, or the first immediate effect of any natural action is definite, specific and uniform. As all natural effects are caused by the radiation of natural force, they are expressible in terms of “lines, angles and figures”. Central to Bacon’s philosophy of nature is the notion that all kinds of corporeal change are reduced to the “multiplicative force” of light. Assuming that the propagation of light is susceptible to mathematical analysis, the principal natural science is the Optics. Roger Bacon claims that the so called natural laws are the rules of rectilinear propagation, reflection and refraction of light. Roger Bacon’s theory of natural causation is illuminated by the concept that the basic structure and origin of the physical universe is due to the self-multiplication of light – the first corporeal form.
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