Kritika postkolonijalnog uma

Author(s): Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak / Language(s): Serbian

In the first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri C. Spivak, one of the world’s foremost literary theorists, attempts to describe a responsible role for the postcolonial critic within the postcolonial enclave. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason track the figure of the ‘native informant’ through various cultural practices – philosophy, history, literature – to suggest that it emerges as the metropolitian hybrid.

БЪЛГАРСКИЯТ ЗЛАТЕН ВЕК. СБОРНИК В ЧЕСТ НА ЦАР СИМЕОН ВЕЛИКИ (893–927)

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian

Digitalno ja

Author(s): Jelena Guga / Language(s): Serbian

The ubiquitous use of digital technologies has enabled vast possibilities such as instant access to information, presence on any part of the planet, multiplication and transformation of identity, as well as re-articulation and reconstruction of embodiment. Science fiction film and literature, new media art practices, scientific research, and cyber theories often deal with the idea of leaving the body behind and uploading the immortal mind into digital databases where we can be whatever and whoever we want. Compared to modern technology, biological body is often considered obsolete and, as such, it is not “equipped” keep up with the exponential technological development. It is not surprising then that many studies, either scientific or popular, disregard the problem of corporeality and focus more on the issues of identity, consciousness, and disembodiment in digital worlds. Therefore, this book presents the works that focus on the issues of embodiment in the context of new media and their impact on social reality. The starting premise of the discussions is that without a physical body, there is neither virtual nor real. The book points to the importance of the physical body in biotechnological interfaces and the ways the role and functions of the body transform in virtual environments and affect our perceptions and understanding of human ontology

Bezdomność w Łodzi

Author(s): Inga B. Kuźma,Danuta Majdańska,Witold Janiszek,Katarzyna Zytke,Paweł Ciołkowski,Antoni Naglik,Joanna Paliwoda,Bożena Antoniak,Marek Marusik,Marta Krysiak,Anna Janiszewska,Rafał Rouba,Justyna Krakus,Joanna Mietlińska,Katarzyna Kikosicka,Ewa Klima,Edyta Pietrzak,Sylwana Borszyńska,Łucja Lange / Language(s): Polish

Książka "Bezdomność w Łodzi" jest w przeważającej mierze efektem konferencji pod tym samym tytułem, która odbyła się w tymże mieście w lutym 2016 roku za sprawą Łódzkiego Partnerstwa Pomocy w sytuacji Wykluczenia i Bezdomności. Składają się na nią teksty prezentowane podczas konferencji oraz kilka innych. Dobrze się stało, że książka nie odcina się od tego spotkania, jak to nieraz bywa z "tomami pokonferencyjnymi". Owszem, w różnoraki sposób do niej nawiązuje. We wstępie jest zamieszczony program konferencji, są też zdjęcia z obrad. W ten sposób redaktorkom publikacji udało się zachować coś z dialogu, który się toczył przecież tamtej zimy na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim. [...] Przedstawiony materiał [...] o bezdomności w Łodzi jest bardzo wartościowy. [z recenzji dr hab. Grzegorza Pełczyńskiego, prof. Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego]

История на Япония

Author(s): Bratislav Ivanov / Language(s): Bulgarian

Bratislav Ivanov is a Bulgarian author of works in areas of linguistics and culture of Japan and a translator from Japanese language. He graduated in Japanese Language and Literature from the Moscow State University. He took his specialization at the Japanese Language Institute. He is the author of many Japanese language articles and books, as well as a series of translations of classical Japanese poetry. He is the first classical Japanese language teacher at Sofia University. Bratislav Ivanov teaches Theoretical Grammar of Japanese Language at Sofia University and Veliko Tarnovo University "St. St. Cyril and Methodius". At present, he is the director of the Bulgarian-Japanese Educational and Cultural Center at the 18th School "William Gladstone" in Sofia. In 2009, Bratislav Ivanov was awarded the oldest Japanese Order - the Order of the Rising Sun - for contributions to the Japanese language studies and his teaching in Bulgaria.

Японски разкази. Двуезично издание

Author(s): Agutawa Ryūnosuke,Arishima Takeo,Kunikida Doppo,Masaoka Shiki,Shiga Naoya,Shimaki Kensaku / Language(s): Japanese,Bulgarian

The book is a bilingual collection of selected short stories by famous Japanese writers from the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. The admirers of Japanese literature will have the opportunity to meet again the famous Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, as well as to become acquainted with lesser-known japanese wordsmiths. The publication enables language learners to work with the original text and the translation into Bulgarian. The stories (except of the "Mandarins") in this book were translated for the first time in Bulgarian. The compilers and translators are Lyudmila Holodović (Japanese language professor and Japanese literature professor at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”) and Alexander Kirov (Japanese Ph.D, graduated in Japanese at the Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski", who has specialized in various Japanese universities and the Japanese Language Center).

Момчето

Author(s): Natsume Sōseki / Language(s): Japanese,Bulgarian

Like “The Catcher in the Rye” or “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, “Botchan”, a hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school, is a classic of its kind. Among Japanese readers both young and old it has enjoyed a timeless popularity, making it, according to Donald Keene, "probably the most widely read novel in modern Japan." The setting is Japan's Deep South, where the author himself spent some time teaching English in a boys' school. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties and established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city, with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges; and the result is a chain of collisions large and small. Much of the story seems to occur in summer, against the drone of cicadas, and in many ways this is a summer book light, funny, and never slow-moving. Here, in a lively new translation much better suited to Western tastes than any of its forebears, Botchan's homespun appeal is all the more apparent, and even those who have never been near the sunlit island on which these calamitous episodes take place should find in it uninterrupted entertainment.

Амдуат. Записи от скритата зала

Author(s): Teodor Lekov / Language(s): Bulgarian,Egyptian (Ancient)

"Amduat – Text of the Hidden Chamber" is an ancient Egyptian esoteric book that describes and magically recreates the journey of the Sun God to Duat (the Realm of the Dead). The book has been recorded on the walls of the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings - it contains the names of the inhabitants of the afterlife, their sacred images and spells to overcome the obstacles in this journey. It is a secret doctrine taught by the Egyptian king and his companions. It appears for the first time in the middle of the second millennium BC, and its tradition is preserved until the sunset of Egyptian civilization. The book is a magical means of immortality, and with its help one goes the same space cycle to his resurrection as the Sun God on his night journey to the new sunrise. The edition contains an introduction, a translation from Ancient Egyptian and a commentary on the book. It is published for the first time in Bulgarian.

Rethinking Social Action. Core Values in Practice

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Proceedings Volume: 12th LUMEN International Scientific Conference Rethinking Social Action. Core Values in Practice | RSACVP 2019 | 15-17 May 2019 | Iasi – Romania

200 godina Friedricha Engelsa

Author(s): / Language(s): Croatian,Serbian

This anthology book is published on the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of Friedrich Engels, an exceptional thinker and theorist of the revolution. Editors Maroje Višić and Miroslav Artić gathered renowned domestic and international scientists who tried to reevaluate Engels' works and his scientific contribution. The idea behind the book is to point out the everlasting value and significance of Engels’ revolutionary philosophy. Contributing authors offered analytical reading of Engels' ideas, addressing pressing issues in economics, politics, religion, feminism, ideology and in other segments of contemporary society. The papers in an anthology are organized under the chapters: The Reception of Engel’s Philosophy, Actuality of Engels Today with subchapters on working-class and precariat, peasantry as the subject of change, early Christianity as an inspiration; and the last chapter is Revalorization of Family and State. The first chapter tackles the questions if Engels was more than an interpreter of Marx or simply the first Marxist who contributed to the banalization of Marx. It then investigates reception of Engels’ philosophy in ex-Yugoslavia specifically and in philosophical theory in general. The second chapter demonstrates actuality and relevance of Engels today by discussing the topics of working-class and precariat, by making comparison between early industrial society and contemporary society and by tracking development of socialism from utopia to a science. Chapter also deals on the peasantry whose role as a subject of change is thoroughly problematized. Special part of the chapter is dedicated to the influence of the practice of early Christianity on the formation of Engels’ revolutionary idea and to what extent original Christian community served affected the development of Engels’ thought. Final chapter brings papers that, under new circumstances, re-examine the understanding of the state-family relation and their dynamic. This comprehensive anthology attempted to revalorize and appraise Engels’ own contribution to science and philosophy 200 years after his birth. For this it was necessary to “divorce” Engels from Marx so that the fallacy of statement that Engels was second violin to Marx becomes striking.Chapter one tackle the question of whetherEngels was more than an interpreter of Marx or simply the first Marxist to contribute to the banalization of Marx.= Engels' reception is then examined both in the former Yugoslavia and in philosophical theory in general.Special part of the chapter is dedicated to influence of the practice of early Christianity on the formation of Engels’ revolutionary idea. That is, to what extent the examples of the original Christian communities influenced the development of Engels' thought

Gu Hongming prekursorem idei fuzji cywilizacji. Konfucjanizm jako ratunek dla Zachodu i świata

Author(s): Marek Tylkowski / Language(s): Polish

An intellectual biography of one of the most influential Chinese political and social thinkers at the turn of XIXth/XXth centuries.

DER MONAT. 06. Jahrgang 1953 Nummer 62

Author(s): Theodor Heuss,Fritz René Allemann,Ernst Reuter,Richard Löwenthal,Theodor W. Adorno,Herbert Lüthy,Martin Gardner,Wolfgang Schrade,Golo Mann,Hilde Spiel,François Bondy / Language(s): German

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DER MONAT. 06. Jahrgang 1954 Nummer 65

Author(s): Karl Jaspers,Granville Hicks,Michael Freund,Jules Monnerot,Alexander Mitscherlich,Theodor W. Adorno,Fritz René Allemann,Herbert Lüthy,Franz Borkenau,Felix Weltsch,Alfred Burmeister,Hilde Spiel / Language(s): German

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DER MONAT. 07. Jahrgang 1955 Nummer 81

Author(s): Fritz René Allemann,Joachim G. Leithäuser,Herbert Lüthy,Hans Meyerhoff,Emil Preetorius,Albert Vigoleis Thelen,Rudolf Hagelstange,Golo Mann,Franz Borkenau,Hellmut Jaesrich / Language(s): German

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DER MONAT. 08. Jahrgang 1955 Nummer 86

Author(s): Edmund Wilson,Fritz René Allemann,Ludwig Marcuse,Luigi Giorgio Barzini,Friedrich Luft,Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt,Fred Neumeyer,T. R. Fyvel,Michael Freund / Language(s): German

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DER MONAT. 09. Jahrgang 1957 Nummer 101

Author(s): Salomon Wolff,Gody Suter,Truman Capote,Alexander Lernet-Holenia,Aldous Huxley,Herbert Lüthy,Hellmut Jaesrich,Fritz Winckel / Language(s): German

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DER MONAT. 11. Jahrgang 1958, Nummer 121

Author(s): Richard Löwenthal,Marek Hłasko,Melvin Richter,J. P. Mayer,Gustav Mersu,James Purdy,Norbert Mühlen,Gerhard Bahlsen,Walter Hasenclever,François Bondy,Hilde Spiel / Language(s): German

DER MONAT. 11. Jahrgang 1959, Nummer 127

Author(s): François Bondy,Denis De Rougemont,Bertrand Russell,Peter Demetz,Thomas Stearns Eliot,Reinhold E. Thiel,Edouard Roditi,Jürgen Rühle,Hans Kohn,Gustav Mersu / Language(s): German

DER MONAT. 11. Jahrgang 1959, Nummer 132

Author(s): Heinz Politzer,Otto Frei,Konstantin Pritzel,Theodor W. Adorno,Erik Nohara,Francisco Candel,Erich Heller,Barbara Klie,François Bondy,György Pálóczi Horváth / Language(s): German

DER MONAT. 13. Jahrgang 1960, Nummer 147

Author(s): Salvador de Madariaga,George T Bailey,Konstanty Jeleński,Witold M. Gombrowicz,Dom Moraes,Hans Otto Wesemann,R. C. Phelan,Murray Sayle,Stephan Lackner,Rudolf Hartung,Lucius Burckhardt,Walter Laqueur / Language(s): German