Sofia Philosophical  Review

Alexander L. Gungov, Editor
Peter S. Borkowski, Associate Editor
Karim Mamdani, Book Review Editor

Vol. I, No. 1
2006

Academic Community in
Civil Society

 

This issue is printed with the kind support by the Fund for the Promotion of the Master’s Programs at the Faculty of Philosophy at Sofia University and the Open Society Institute Sofia.

Sofia Philosophical Review accepts papers in the fields of Social, Political, and Moral Philosophy as well as Continental Philosophy in general. Please send a hard copy of the manuscripts accompanied by an electronic version of the same to:

Dr. Alexander L. Gungov
Editor, Sofia Philosophical Review
Faculty of Philosophy
Sofia University
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All prospective contributions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style. Review materials should be sent to the Book Review Editor at the above address.

© Aglika Gungova, artist

 

Table of Contents

Moral Dimensions of the contemporary world

Academic Speech at the Ceremony of Awarding an Honorary Doctoral Degree at the Sofia University (June 2002)
Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds

Levinas: How to Think Humanitas of Homo Humanus?
Maria Dimitrova, Sofia University

On Sophistication and Morality
Peter Stefan Borkowski, The American University in Cairo

Art and beyond…

In Search of Meaning
Domenico Jervolino, University of Naples Federico II

Natural Meaning in Art
W. Stephen Croddy, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Politics and Economy: The Other side of the coin

Powers of Resistance to the New Postindustrial Order: Hardt/Negri and/vs. Jameson
Lazar Popov, Purdue University

Economic Difficulties Awaiting our Grandchildren: A Retrospective on Keynes
Mehmet Seyhan Pencapligil, Sofia University and Banka Kombetare Tregtare

The Structural Brakes of Manipulation or the Constructed Outside
Erma Petrova, University of Ottawa

A Critique of Anarcho-Capitalism: Examining the Public Good and the Legitimacy of the State
Jeffrey Bow, The Australian National University

Book reviews

Thomas R. Flynn, Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason, Chicago:
Chicago University Press, vol. 1,
Toward an Existentialist Theory of History, 1997; vol. 2,
A Poststructuralist Mapping of History, 2005
Maria Dimitrova, Sofia University

 William L. McBride, From Yugoslav Praxis to Global Pathos:
Anti-Hegemonic Post-Post-Marxist Essays, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001
Alexander L. Gungov, Sofia University

Albena Bakratcheva, Visibility Beyond the Visible:
The Artistic Discourse of American Transcendentalism,
Sofia: The New Bulgarian University Press, 2006
Alexander L. Gungov, Sofia University

 

Information about the Authors and Editors

Master's and Doctoral Studies in Philosophy Taught in English at Sofia University