Sofia Philosophical  Review

Alexander L. Gungov, Sofia University, Editor
Peter S. Borkowski, Sofia University and the   American University in Cairo, Associate Editor
Karim Mamdani, Sofia University, Book Review Editor
Kristina Stöckl, University of Innsbruck, International Editor

Vol. II, No. 2
2008

Academic Community in
Civil Society

This is issue is printed with the kind support by the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Sofia and the Master’s Program in Philosophy Taught in English at Sofia University.

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:

Editor
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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.

ISSN 1313-275X
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Table of Contents

 

I.  Some Reflections on Modern Philosophy

Freedom after Kant
Tom Rockmore, Duquesne University

The Second Person: Fichte's Contribution
Günter Zöller, University of Munich

Vico’s Deviation from Descartes’ Logical Principles
Alexander Gungov, University of Sofia

II. Philosophers from a Distance

Love and Violence: Notes to the Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger (1925-1975)
Dimitar Denkov, University of Sofia

Self Consciousness, Behavior, and Speech
Sergi Avilés i Travila, Superior Center for Philosophical Research

III. Social and Political Life in a Philosophical Perspective

Transversality and Public Philosophy in the Age of Globalization
Hwa Yol Jung, Moravian College

Everyday Life and Philosophy
Aneta Karageorgieva  and Dimitar Ivanov, Sofia University

The Orthodox Intellectual Tradition and the Philosophical Discourse of Political Modernity
Kristina Stoeckl, University of Innsbruck

IV. Elements of Humanness

Education for Knowledge Societies
Elena Tsenkova, University of Sofia

The Idea of Man
Mark Kalinin, Fort Kent, Maine

V. Book Review

Tom Rockmore’s Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2002, pp. 224, $35.95
Maria Dimitrova, University of Sofia

VI. Announcements and Reports

Identity, between the Unspeakable and the Dreadful
(an international interdisciplinary conference held on October 1-16 at Université de Picardie-Jules-Verne, France)

An ongoing seminar on Production and causality, productivity and reproduction: conceptual constructions and their repercussions in the contemporary world
(Institute of Philosophical Sciences, The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Information about SPR, Vol. II, No.2  authors and editors

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