ЯНКО ЯНЕВ: БАЛКАНСКО И ЕВРОПЕЙСКО
YANKO YANEV: BALKAN AND EUROPEAN

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the intense literary and public activities of the Bulgarian philosopher Yanko Yanev in Germany from the mid-1930s and until his death in 1944. Yanev was educated in Germany and defended a doctoral thesis under the supervision of H. Rickert. He is the author of competent studies on Nietzsche, Hegel, Goethe, Hölderlin, Novalis, Schopenhauer, etc. The article is focused on Yanev’s metaphysical inquiries, which brought him to perceive a kinship between the Balkans and Germany. The article discusses Yanev’s rejection of the claims regarding the Slavic nature of Balkan people, claims that he considered to be a Russian insinuation. Also commented on is his view that the Balkans are a construct, in the creation of which this Bulgarian thinker invested his Romantic attitudes and imagination.

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