Прочутата мисъл на Симон дьо Бовоар – „Една жена не се ражда жена. Тя става такава.” – е вдъхновила различни интерпретации, както поетични, докосващи се до фините струни на женското себеусещане, така …
Ведрото на Нютон срещу дървото на Декарт е детайлно, внимателно историко-философско изследване на мисълта на двете най-жалонни за формирането на модерната наука и научен светоглед фигури. Подобно на …
Пред последните десетилетия полето на изследванията върху висшето образование толкова се разшири, че вече обхваща повече от 20 отделни дисциплини и няколко десетки специализирани списания. Тази научна …
През страстите около Левски Мария Тодорова разказва българската идентичност. Всяка нация има своята „метафорична спойка”, чрез която можем да я разберем; необичайното в българския случай е …
Everyone who read Roumen Daskalov’s monograph about the Bulgarian Revival[1] must have been waiting impatiently for his new book, From Stambolov to Zhivkov. Major Debates in Modern Bulgarian Historiography Daskalov declares at the very beginning that he has written a history of Bulgarian historiography, or a history of Bulgarian historiographical discourse, where he is concerned not with the historical reality (the past) but with its historiographical representation (the history written about the past).
Knowing exactly what you are saying when you use a particular word or expression is something very important not only in everyday but also in scientific communication.
ccording to a popular notion, philosophy in Bulgaria today is characterized primarily by the fact that it was highly ideologized for a long time and will take a long time to break with ideology. On the other hand, in Bulgaria history of philosophy holds a stronger position than original philosophical research.
Work on Concepts covers a significant period of scientific work (the thirteen articles that make up this book were written from 1996 to 2010; one of them, ‘Work on Concepts’, is published here for the first time). In this book Hristo Todorov addresses a wide range of issues related to the central thematic motif: elucidating the uses of concepts in politics, science, and philosophy.
Maybe because of my own memories, I approached the book Childhood under Socialism expecting to find a happy childhood in it too. I was in that highly sentimental mood of remembering, best illustrated by propositions such as ‘Whatever childhood memories you may have, they are always nice, sweet and true!’ (to quote a comment from the visitors’ book of the Inventory Storehouse of Socialism exhibition, p. 173).
My encounter with Milena Iakimova’s book coincided with my arrival in a new city. I read Sofia of the Common People in my first weeks in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while I was getting used to the strange sounds and colours in my new apartment, looking for a new kindergarten, picking out new foods in the store, memorizing the local traffic regulations, browsing a new library, meeting new people and learning the structure and rules of a new university.
