Filozofia (według) Gombrowicza

Author(s): Marek Bernacki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 29/2017

The main subject of the article is a discussion of Witold Gombrowicz’s philosophical views, which were presented in the cycle of lectures delivered by him in Vence at the turn of April and May 1969, in the presence of his wife, Rita, and two of his friends: Iza Neyman and Dominic de Roux. In 1971 the lectures, written down by writer’s friends, were published in French as Guide de la philosophie en six heures un quarto (“Philosophy course in six hours and quarter of an hour”). Author of the article shows Gombrowicz’s predilection to existentialism and structuralism– two contemporary doctrines which, in his own opinion, the writer discovered himself as the first in Europe in his debut novel entitled Ferdydurke (1937). Philosophical course presented by Witold Gombrowicz two months before his own death, was compared in the end of the article to the message (main idea) of the late poem by Czeslaw Milosz entitled Vocative, written in the end of the 20th century. In this dramatic text the death was described as destructive, dull and unconscious power. Both, the Gombrowicz’s philosophical course, as well as Milosz’s late poem Vocative – can be interpreted as testimonial of heroic human intellect and soul in their uneven struggle against sickness and death, concluded author.

Илюстриктурата като некласически философски идиом: перспективи и проекции

Author(s): Kristian Enchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

In this text-experiment I will try to think in a new direction the proximity of illustricture with the figurology of Boyan Manchev. Illustricture is a dynamic mode of work of the introduced here concept figure-form (dynamized form), through which it becomes understandable why and how a figurative potentiality can evolve to a conceptual opportunity. Figurativеness can also be thought as one unlocking its own field of potentiality and self-actualizing forceful virtuality. The non-classical hypothesis of that experiment is: the being’s act of affirmation of linguistic meanings illustricturatively creates (unpredictable) essences, as long as it contains within itself repetitive structure charged with deviation.

Sprawozdanie z konferencji naukowej "Kryzys wartości?"

Author(s): Leszek Kopciuch / Language(s): Polish Issue: 24/2017

Despre tetra-lemă. Însemnări fragmentare şi fugare

Author(s): Gorun MANOLESCU / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2018

Tetra-lemma with four truth values "true", "false", "true and false", "neither true nor false" appeared in Buddhist logic. Why is Tetra-lemma interesting forus? It is for its avatars, in some cases, in the context of Western epistemology. In these fugitive notes, without claiming completeness, we will focus on how Tetra-lemma slipped in some systems of Western philosophy.

Architectural Gestalt and some aspects of architectural thinking

Author(s): Gorun MANOLESCU / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

We are largely surrounded by increasingly complex technical systems. These systems often border on the absurd even though they rely on logical and physical reality. This is because they move away from the “logical efficiency”of natural forms. This text approaches some specific aspects of entities which are achieved by human beings,i.e. those connected to their “formative structure”.I emphasize that the aesthetics and the functions of such products are determined by the consonance between the formative structure and a natural structure, and I called this “architectural thinking”. As an example, I consider the well-known “golden number” found both in the human body and in artistic and technical products such as Parthenon.Two questions which thistext addresses are: What is a “formative structure”? How can the consonance, or harmony, between such structure and that of a “natural” one be approached?

Познавателна сила и не-способност за свобода – Кантови трихотомии

Author(s): Ivaylo Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The paper sketches out an approach to an analysis of Kant’s specific notion of ‘Kraft’ based on the influxionist model of his Critical metaphysics. The point of reference of all provided sets of textual evidence is the triple division of the predicament ‘possibility’ outlined by Kant for his course on anthropology. My aim is to provide a sufficient reason to claim that this distinction between Fähigkeit, Vermögen, and Kraft exemplifies Kant’s ‘suspicious divisions in pure philosophy’and thus can be regarded as a synthetic partitioning of his Critical project. For this reason, I also contend that through the dynamic trichotomy in question we could recognize the ‘keystone of the whole edifice’of Kant’s philosophy.

Hegel and the Speculative Course of Freedom

Author(s): Ivo Minkov / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

The main accent in the article is to show the perspective to understand the idea of freedom as a process, rather than condition. The course of freedom is speculative and the deepest form of Hegel’s philosophy. Moreover, it is the solid ground of the mighty systematic thought of the German philosopher. In the light of the highest category of Hegel’s logic – The Absolute Idea – the speculative idea of freedom obtains an ontological aspect completely different and even diametrically opposed to spontaneity.

Какъв е залогът във „Време и разказ“ на Пол Рикьор?

Author(s): Chavdar Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The article is a critique of the language-time relation, characterized by Paul Ricoeur as: return and distanciation in regard to pre-narrativity; opening the logic of story toward historicity; engagement with the fictional. To the forefront is the question of delineation between epistemological and ontological problematics. To this end, first, the mediating role of reflexivity, differentiated on the basis of distanciation and textuality, is examined. Second, in the context of the conception for triple mimesis are distinguished: the function of imagination and ambiguous moments in Ricoeur’s strategy – inconsistency in his plan for processual historical thinking and respectively – a problem with the notion of ‘representing’ the past. The analysis continues with the complementary theme of a “projected world,” where the act of reading brings forth the phenomenon of time through a productive intersection. Here, via the juxtaposition between an emplotment, which is already in a cultural world, and the autonomous literary work, is outlined Ricoeur’s idea about a transition from semantics of action, through a trans-temporal imaginary world, to refiguration. In the next part of the research, an overview of the limits before a positive articulation of narrated time parallels the last possibility, allowed by the specific status of the thesis in Time and Narrative. The perspective of a double hermeneutical key: circularity of triple interpretations, on the one hand, and dialectic of distensio animi (St. Augustin) and discordant concordance (Aristotle), on the other hand, is explained in the conclusion. In this way Ricoeur saves a chance for going beyond the aporetics of time, but leaves behind the frame of philosophical investigation.

Призванието във философията на Хосе Ортега-и-Гасет – героизъм за всеки

Author(s): Miglena Marinova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

Thе paper aims to explore the concept of “vocation” which is essential to the philosophy of Jose Ortega-y-Gasset, and lies at the heart of his perception of the authenticity of being. For this purpose, the study focuses on some of the most emblematic texts of the Spanish philosopher, as well as on some modern interpretations of the problem. The text attempts to answer a number of questions about the nature, origin and possibilities of realization of the vocation by binding the concept to the imagination, love and the idea of man as a being who chooses himself at any moment.

La nature historique de la construction sociale.

Author(s): Ádám Takács / Language(s): French Issue: 45-46/2018

The morality of naturalism

Author(s): Stiliyan Yotov / Language(s): English Issue: 45-46/2018

De L'individualisme moral relationnel vers un universalisme de l'ideologie de l'humanisme. Deux reflexions sur Tzvetan Todorov

Author(s): Ivaylo Znepolski / Language(s): French Issue: 45-46/2018

Peep Show: The Lamentations of Justyna Bargielska

Author(s): Adam Lipszyc / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The author analyses poems of Justyna Bargielska from her first three volumes of poetry as well as her prose debut. Discussing then theories of Melanie Klein and Hanna Segal, the work of Nicole Loraux on the place of the feminine mourning voice in the ancient Athens. political system, as well as Galit Hasan-Rokem.s book on the Midrashim to the Book of Lamentations, the author builds a conceptual framework which might be helpful in understanding the feminine forms of expressions of mourning. Against this background he tries to describe the ironic dirges found in Bargielska’s work, paying special attention to the dominant figure of ‘container’ which among other things seems to refer to the very poem itself, conceived as the space which is to contain loss.

Sentimental Education

Author(s): Grzegorz Grochowski / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Author of this text is trying to examine several examples of interaction between literature, other fields of discourse and social imagination. This review is focused mainly on French classicism and rationalism, nineteenth Century fiction and Darwinism, modern literature and so-called antihumanism and finally - some contemporary tendencies.

Uczniowie Platona

Author(s): Michał Heller,Janusz Mączka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 65/2018

Recenzja książki: Bogdan Dembiński, Stara Akademia Platona. W początkach epoki hellenistycznej (ostatni okres), Wydawnictwo Marek Derewiecki, Kęty 2018, ss. 183.

Why don’t we understand Socrates?

Author(s): Ruja Popova / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2005

Николай Бердяев – еврейството като конструкт на историчното

Author(s): Rosen Rachev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

This article explores one of the important aspects of Nikolai Berdyaev’s historiosophical concept – his attitude towards the fate of the Jewish people. Some of the major reasons for the crucial role of Jewishness in the development of historical consciousness and for the introduction of dramatic and tense elements in it are reviewed here.

Хегел и Фройд. За еволюцията на съзнанието

Author(s): Ivo Minkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

The paper aims to follow the growth of two fundamental positions – pure being in Hegel’s philosophy and unconscious in Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. The intention is their heuristic catch that leads us to clearly understand and distinguish the evolution and happiness. This is the reason why, the planetary consciousness is not a utopia. It is realized as an obligation and a responsibility of modern humanity, towards future generations.

Тематизациите на другостта в биографичния проект – от срещите в ежедневието до сблъсъка със смъртта

Author(s): Gergana Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

Review of the book "The Others in the Biography of Personality" by Gradev, Marinov and Karabelyova

Човекът в търсене на смисъл: изборът между страдание и удоволствие

Author(s): Kameliya Slavcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2015

This study examines the problem of the meaning of life and the choice between suffering and pleasure, according to the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes, written by the wisest king that ever lived on Earth, and according to the greatest psychiatrist, founder of the doctrine of Logotherapy, the author of one of the greatest books of our time: Man in Search of Meaning and The Doctor and the Soul – Viktor Frankl. Can we find some similarities in their statements, research, and philosophy? Where is the meaning of human existence: in pleasure or in pain? Why is it important for everyone to find meaning in his/her life? Is this the driving force of humankind forward? Can you live with dignity; what it means, and how to help people that lost the meaning? These are the questions we try to find answers for in this study. The aim is to follow the similarities between the two authors, and to find where modern psychology, logotherapy meet the faith in God.