Fouad Ben Ahmed - Ibn Rušd: Knowledge, pleasures and analogy

Mariya KalchevaAn Outline of the History of the Concept of Form: Antique Origin and Early Christian Reception

Polya Tarkoleva Philosophicо-anthropological interpretation of Vico’s theory on the origin of language

Iva Manova - Historico-Philosophical Studies on Krastyo Peykich of Chiprovtsi (1666-1730): Аn Overview of the Literature and Some Critical Remarks

Alexandre Losev – Morpho-logical Investigations: Wittgenstein and Spengler

Dobrin Todorov - Interpretation and Integrity

Jan Söffner - Der Kairos des Denkens und das Interview als Ort des Philosophierens 

Ivanka Mavrodieva Rhetorical features of academic presentations

Gergana Pencheva-Apostolova - E-kind. Facing the Stars

Mariya IvanchevaAllegories of Transition: Representations of Past and Present Repressive Regimes in Gyorgyi Palfi’s Feature Film Taxidermia and the House of Terror Museum in Budapest

Веселина Славова - Проблемът за тялото във философските концепции на Е. Левинас и М. Мерло-Понти

Нора Голешевска - Сценарии за края на историята на изкуството: Ханс Белтинг и Артър Данто

Petar Dimkov Analysis of the concept ‘Desemantism’

Карл Ясперс За европейския дух (превод от немски: Георги Каприев)

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Alexandre Losev

Ludwig WittgensteinThe influence of Spengler on Wittgenstein’s philosophical development is considered. The point of interest is in a significant methodological restructuring which it appears to have produced. After an initial over-enthusiastic reception, Wittgenstein is seen to object on some points which he attempted to emend in his own philosophy. Spengler’s name disappeared in reworked manuscripts but traces persist in the Philosophical Investigations and an important section (§89-133) is found to be connected with it.

keywords: Wittgenstein, history of ideas, Spengler, philosophy, language

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Iva Manova

Krastyo PeykichKrastyo Peykich (1666-1730), together with Filip Stanislavov, Petar Parchevich and Petar Bogdan Bakshev, to mention just the most widely-known names, was a representative of the so-called Bulgarian Catholic intelligentsia of the early modern period. Bulgarian by birth and “Roman” by education, Peykich was active as a Catholic missionary in central and east-central Europe in the decades around the very end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and was the author of several polemical works, which dealt with controversialist theology and political and juridical issues.

This article aims to present an overview of the scholarly studies on Peykich’s works and to highlight some problematic aspects in the historiographical interpretations of the role played by Bulgarian Catholic authors, and by Krastyo Peykich in particular, in Bulgarian national culture.

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 Jan Söffner

InterviewAls ich das erste Mal von bislang zweien interviewt wurde, war ich 20 Jahre alt und Sänger einer ausgesprochen erfolglosen Rock-Band. Erfolglos war sie vielleicht wegen mir selbst – denn mein Talent hatte Grenzen. Aber dieser Verdacht kam mir erst viel später. Während eines überraschenderweise mit Publikum ausgestatteten Auftritts verließ ich bei einem Instrumentalstück die Bühne und wurde von einem Lokaljournalisten abgegriffen. Ich war augenblicklich sehr stolz, interviewt zu werden und erzählte grässliche Plattitüden. Der Interviewer merkte das nicht, denn dafür war er mit seinem eigenen Stolz, Musikjournalist zu sein und Rockstars zu interviewen zu sehr beschäftigt. Der Artikel, den er schrieb, trug den Titel „Rimbaud und Paganini in Endzeitlicher Finsternis“…

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Interpretation and Integrity

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Dobrin Todorov 

Философската публичност в тоталитарна и посттоталитарна БългарияAbstract: This text was read as a lecture in the frames of the scientific conference Truth, good and beauty: philosophical readings (In memoriam of prof. Isak Passy, prof. Dobrin Spassov, prof. Ciril Neshev) held on 21 and 22, December 2011. It discusses the theme of producing an adequate attitude towards philosophy, practiced here during the totalitarian period and the different approaches towards its evaluation. The author, who bases on his own experience from a lasting due the last years debate, makes few summarizing conclusions, leading the reader beyond it.

Key words: Interpretation, Integrity, Principles of evaluation, Totalitarian philosophizing, Bulgarian philosophical culture.

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Polya Tarkoleva

Vico principi di scienza nuovaAbstract: The article presents an analysis of Vico’s theory on the origin of language and its role in the creation of the socio-cultural activities of the human being. The Philosophico-anthropological interpretation of Vico’s conception provides interesting arguments in favor of the thesis that the poetic language is the perfect form of dialogue. The aim of this paper is to present the dialogue as a prerequisite for the creativity.

Key words: language, poetic language, Man, Vico, Anthropology, theory of the origin of language

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Lars Reuke - To p or not to p. Scotus, Leibniz und die Kontingenz

Tim McMynneFrank Ramsey’s Commitment to Ideology

Antoaneta Doncheva - Beckett and Carroll – A Violent Denial of Personal Identity

Rosena VucovaResume on James Clifford’s The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art (Harvard University Press, 1988), Part One: Discourses, “On Ethnographic Authority”

Марио Коев - ВРЕМЕ. ПЕРИОДИЧНОСТ. БАНАЛНОСТ. Богословски опит върху красотата на битието

Веселин Дафов – Що е то дете?

Габриела Русинова - Петър Испански: рецепция и трансформация на теорията за топосите на Боеций

Веселин Дафов – Кариери за философи

Алберт Велики – За интелекта и умопостигаемото (Превод от латински: Евелина Митева )

 

 

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Antoaneta Doncheva

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland first edition

This article is first presented as a paper in X th World Congress of Semiotics  (La Coruna 2009)

In this paper, I investigate the relationships between narative, knowledge and personal identity. I take  Samuel Beckett’s  “Waiting  for Godot”  and  Carroll’s  “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”  and  “Trough the Looking Glas”. The basic questions addressed here can be formulated in this way:

How might narrative be defended as a necessary condition for constructing personal identity and  how Beckett and Carroll violently deny this to their personages, undermining the basis on which it is built: bodily continuity, language, memory and the spatio-temporal continuity.
 

Carroll’s works point to some of the features that characterise modern art and Postmodern critical discourse. An examination of “Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland”  and  “Trough the Looking Glas”shows striking similarities to Beckett’s plays, lending credence to the premise that Carroll prefigures modern drama, especially in the guise of the Theatre of the Absurd and provides fertile ground for postmodern discourse. In the subversion of some traditional principles of theatrical aesthetics laid down by Aristotle, he was to present what most have considered to be the grim nature of man with a radically new notion of setting, time, action, language, dialogue and plot.

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Tim McMynne

Frank_Ramsey

Pejorative references to ideology have become so commonplace in political bickering that even an editorial touting one’s intellectual pedigree mouths the specious arguments. After failing to be confirmed to an appointment Federal Reserve, the Nobel-wielding economist Peter A. Diamond wrote a New York Times editorial, “When a Nobel Prize Isn’t Enough”, that informs the greater New York area of the Congressional Republicans’ short-sightedness and ignorance of economic matters, concluding with the paragraph:

Analytical expertise is needed (…) to make government more effective and efficient. Skilled analytical thinking should not be drowned out by mistaken, ideologically driven views that more is always better or less is always better. I had hoped to bring some of my own expertise and experience to the Fed. Now I hope someone else can. 

The usual cursory reading given to the opinion section of a newspaper may tempt agreement that “[s]killed analytical thinking should not be drowned out by mistaken, ideologically driven views”, but, upon reflection, the distinction between skilled analytic thinking and mistaken, ideologically driven views becomes fuzzy. Obviously, Diamond believes economists of his persuasion exercise the former while the contrarian Republicans stymying his appointment espouse the latter. Unfortunately, a flippant reference to ideology suffices for an acceptable scapegoat in political bickering, allowing Diamond to mask his personal distaste for Republican tactics.

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Lars Reuke

John Duns Scotus

Thema der vorliegenden Arbeit ist der Begriff der Kontingenz und der Modalität. Dazu sollen zwei Denker zu Wort kommen und analysiert werden, deren Behandlung von Modalität innovativ und einflussreich war und ist: Johannes Duns Scotus (geb. ca. 1266, gest. am 08. November 1308) und Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (geb. am 01. Juli 1646, gest. am 14. November 1716). Die scotische Konzeption der Modalphilosophie stellt einen Bruch und eine bedeutsame Innovation in der Geschichte der Philosophie dar: 1500 Jahre nach Aristoteles, der mit seinem Seeschlacht-Beispiel im neunten Kapitel von De interpretatione die Diskussion um die Modalität lange Zeit prägen sollte, war Scotus der erste Philosoph, der eine wesentliche Neuerung in die Debatte einbrachte. Während bis dahin Möglichkeiten horizontal entlang der Zeitachse angeordnet wurden, d.h., wenn Ereignisse gegenwärtig aktual sind, sie den ontologischen Status einer Möglichkeit verlieren , brach Scotus diese Denkweise auf, indem er Möglichkeiten vertikal anordnete: Gegenwärtige und vergangene Ereignisse oder Eigenschaftszuschreibungen an Entitäten können zwar durchaus noch notwendig sein, sind es aber nicht mehr zwangsläufig.

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Rosena Vucova

James Clifford

The text observes the development of ethnographic authority form the allegorical period of science in the 18th century (Father Lafitau) through its participant observation period in the 20th century (Malinowski) to the idea of the polyphonic novel, based on Bakhtin’s theories. The goal is to follow and explain the process of collaborative production of ethnographical knowledge and to represent the main difficulty in front of the coherent presentation, caused by the gap between the heteroglossia of the fieldwork and the mode of authority, always attempting to dominate and control. E.g. this chapter of The Predicament of Culture is a narration about the transformations of understanding about ethnography as interpretation of cultures, the crisis of its methodology, the problems of textualisation of an alien culture and the blurred figure of the actual author of the “polyphonic novel”, what an ethnographic study actually is.

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Georgi Kapriev - Die “Konservativen” und die “Neuerer” in der Palaiologenzeit

Kosta Milkov - Pseudo-Dionysius on the ecstatic in the divine ascent of the soul

Aidan Harris - Justice and Sentiment for Women and Children in the Family

Maya Mincheva - Où est le lieu de la philosophie? Le Collège International de Philosophie dans la pensée de Jacques Derrida

Martina Leeker - Lokale Mediengeschichte(n) und Post-McLuhanismus. Zum McLuhan Kongress in Toronto 2011

Jasmina Tacheva - Nietzsche contra illusionem

Iva Sakarova - The moral man as enkratês

Смилен Марков - Рецензия за книгата „Светът на Средновековието – генезис, история, общество (университетски курс лекции)” на проф. дфн Калин Янакиев

Владимир Сабоурин - Сад в Диалектика на Просвещението

Дияна Николова - Археологията на един вечен жанр (Пасторалът в изкуството)

Христо Стоицов - Изтезание – изповед – психоанализа: ре/актуализации на диспозитива власт

Лидия Кондова - Монада и Ноумен. Монадологията на Лайбниц и критиката на Кант

Христо ХристовИсая Бърлин, или пътят на отворените врати. Есе върху „Две понятия за свободата“

Митко Новков - Трите увъртания и трите обърквания на д-р Зигмунд Фройд

Алекс Костова - Бележки върху Lichtung, Ereignis, и западната (пост)история при Хайдегер след обрата

Смилен Марков - Преходът като гарант за епистемна всеобщност – концепцията за трансверсалния разум на Волфганг Велш

Валентин Калинов - Призраците на лабиринта. Опити около метафизиката на градското пространство

Св. Бернар от Клерво – Проповеди върху „Песен на песните“ (Проповеди 80-82) Превод от латински: Мария Ванева

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Georgi Kapriev

Zusammenfassung: 

Christus Pantokrator

Die Hauptthese des Projekts, dessen Teil diese Studie darstellt, lautet, dass die Palaiologenzeit keine neue Kulturstruktur entwickelte, sondern die im 11. und 12. Jahrhundert errichtete in einer neuen Situation fortführte. Es wird hier die Frage gestellt, inwieweit die kraft der neuen Situation des 13.-15. Jahrhunderts entstandenen Phänomene die Kulturstruktur durchmodifizierten und ob sie diese generell änderten.

Es wird angesichts der neuen Phänomene des „Kulturpatriotismus“ und des „Konservatismus“ nach Neuheiten gesucht, indem eine angeblich nebensächliche Streitfrage zum Betrachtungsgegenstand erwählt wird, nämlich die Frage nach der Stellung der Syllogistik in der theologischen Problematik und nach der Möglichkeit bzw. Unmöglichkeit eines apodiktischen Syllogismus in Rücksicht auf das Göttliche. Die neuen Lösungen, stellt sich fest, werden durch Angriff der authentisch aristotelischen Metaphysik durchgeführt, indem im Fall der byzantinischen Thomisten es um eine Anwendung der Transzendentalienlehre und im Fall des Gregorios Palamas und seiner worttreuen Anhänger um eine Anwendung der Energienlehre und der damit verbundenen Unterscheidung zwischen Sein, Wesenheit/Essenz und Existenz geht. Es geht also um einen Zusammenstoss zwischen zwei metaphysischen Programmen, die keine frühere Kulturpräsenz in dieser Form kannten. Die Logik wurde nun aufgrund der metaphysischen Basis verifiziert und erlangte erst als Bestandteil dieser Basis ihre Effizienz. Das Explizieren der metaphysischen Axiomatik im Bereich des Logischen ist allezeit ein sicheres Indiz für die Krise des Paradigmas.

Es wird indes festgestellt, dass die Anstrengungen sowohl der „Neuerer“ wie auch der „Konservativen“ auf eine Renovierung bzw. „Sanierung“ des etablierten Denk- und Kulturmodells und nicht auf seine Ersetzung abzielten. Symptomatisch in dieser Hinsicht ist die Tatsache, das die Abwehr gegen die „Neuerer“ (etwa bei Neilos Kabasilas), der sich gegen die „lateinische Art zu theologisieren“ richtete, weil er darin eine Gefahr für bestimmte Stützpunkte des Kulturmodells entdeckte, durch eine Rückkehr zur Situation verwirklicht wurde, die in der zweiten Hälfte des 11. Jahrhunderts aktuell war.

Die byzantinischen Intellektueller der letzten eigentlich byzantinischen Periode suchten also Auswege aus der Krise durch Aufbau von immer neuen Projekten, die aber sich als Elemente des etablierten Kulturmodells von Byzanz fassten. Die Hektik dieser Überproduktion von Entwürfen im Rahmen des Paradigmas wird auch heute als eine kulturelle Blüte gedeutet, die man der sog. paläologischen Renaissance zuschreibt. Die nach Mitte des 11. Jahrhunderts geprägte Kulturgestalt galt dennoch bis zum Ende als konkurrenzlose Norm. Die Unmöglichkeit, ein der neuen Situation entsprechendes Kulturparadigma zu entwickeln, war das eigentliche geschichtliche Drama der byzantinische Kultur, das es letztendlich zu ihrem Zusammenbruch führte.

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Aidan Harris

John Rawls - Theory of Justice

John Rawls

Rawls changed the landscape of political philosophy with A Theory of Justice. When the initial fervour died down – despite spotting problems – academic and political feminists, and other political philosophers have regarded the Justice as Fairness model as a gateway to stronger, normative explications of feminism. This was because it fit in with Rawls’ liberal and egalitarian intentions (Collected Papers pp. 595 *58). However, logical analysis of Justice as Fairness highlighted structural deficits that would inviolably allow gender inequality in different forms, rather than proscribing it. Chief amongst them, are the conflicts between the essential liberty of all persons, and the purported acquiescence of many aspects of this liberty to the ‘personal’ 1 sphere of family life. There is a disjunction between the aggregate family unit and the separateness of persons; separateness as a quality of personhood Rawls needs to defend himself against utilitarian varieties of justice…

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Maya Mincheva

Derrida

Jacques Derrida

Abstract: This paper examines the proper place of philosophy in two major texts written by Jacques Derrida during the late 70s and early 80s, i.e. the time when the prospect of a certain International College of Philsophy comes into realisation. But its institutional existence mirrors a profound reflection on Western philosophical tradition from Kant and Schelling and their intepretative answers to some of the most ticklish points in our profession: where does philosophy belong within academy, is it a queen and superior to all or all sciences are equal in the eye of the scientific truth. This paper claims that the College is the performative answer (in the deepest analytical meaning) of this philosophical quest between the Kantian and the idealist tradition, or as Derrida puts it: a matter of translation.

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Lokale Mediengeschichte(n) und Post-McLuhanismus. Zum McLuhan Kongress in Toronto 2011

June 28, 2012

Martina Leeker Abstract:  This text is inspired by the conference then – now – next. McLuhan Centenary Conference from 7th – 10th of November 2011 at the University of Toronto, Canada. This summary of the conference aims to look at the state of the art of contemporary media studies via reflections on McLuhan beginning from two [...]

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The moral man as enkratês

June 26, 2012

Iva Sakarova And if human beings are the only ones responsible for their actions, it must be because only we are given the ability to choose the means to our end. But if we are having this opportunity to choose, to move between good and bad, how exactly do we distinguish between the two kinds [...]

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Nietzsche contra illusionem

June 26, 2012

Jasmina Tacheva Gustave Doré, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, 1863 Abstract: In this paper I seek to explain Nietzsche’s interpretation of key concepts in his philosophy such as: opposition, error, overabundance (overflowing), the overman, the principle of eternal recurrence and the Dionysian art and life. The current analysis is based on two main passages from Beyond Good [...]

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Philosophia: E-Journal of Philosophy and Culture – 1/2012

March 24, 2012

Zornitsa Radeva - Agathon und Sokrates Константин Сотиров – „Реторика” на Аристотел: ораторско изкуство или диалектическа логика Георги Каприев - Историчността и темпоралността – основни елементи на византийската философия Кире Трајанов - Еклисиолошкиот етос според свети Јован Златоуст Gergana Dineva - The revision of the boundary concepts symbol and image in the philosophy of Maximus the Confessor in respect to the works of Pseudo-Dionysius the [...]

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Zeitlichkeit und Geschichtlichkeit als Grundelemente der byzantinischen Philosophie“, in: Die Geschichtlichkeit des philosophischen Denkens, edd. G. Kapriev / G. Mensching, Sofia, 2004, 58-71.

March 24, 2012

Georgi Kapriev Das fünfte Jahrhundert hat dem ganzen Mittelalter zwei Bücher gegeben, jede von denen auf eine höchst zusammenfassende Weise die ideologischen Grundlagen der riesigen Epoche ausdrückt. Das eine Buch ist aber auf Latein und das andere auf Griechisch geschrieben und die Unterschiede unter denen symbolisieren gewissermaßen den Unterschied zwischen der lateinischen Welt und der [...]

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