Самотният философски остров на Иван Гюзелев
The Lonely Philosophical Island Ivan Gyuzelev

Summary/Abstract: Ivan Gyuzelev was the first thinker after the Bulgarian Liberation in 1878 to propose an original philosophical system of his own. The aim of this paper is to provide an answer to the intriguing question as to why younger Bulgarian philosophers did not subsequently elaborate this system and establish a specific idealist tradition. Three different reasons are clarified as providing respective answers to the question relevant to three different historical periods: the first – until the end of the 1940s, the second – from the beginning of the 1950s to the end of the 1980s, and the third – from the beginning of the 1990s onwards. Gyuzelev’s intellectual enterprise has remained a solitary island surrounded by a sea of other philosophical conceptions that have attracted the interest of Bulgarian philosophers.

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