Philosophy and Life Sciences in Dialogue

Author(s): Vassil Vidinsky / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The volume Philosophy and Life Sciences in Dialogue is a result of the IV. International Summer School Bioethics in Context, organized by Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and FernUniversität in Hagen. The book is exemplary in many ways. It contains 11 high-quality articles on fundamental themes and concepts with real philosophical depth – nature, autonomy, the future of trans- and post-humanism, the meta-topic of bioethics and its relations with life sciences. The authors present illuminating historical backgrounds as a context to these theoretical discussions and a source of interesting or forgotten arguments. Most of the articles analyze recent and avantgarde scientific research with its social implications: CRISPR-Cas9 technology, digitalization of health care, justification of animal experiments, questions of human cloning, moral enhancement and the artificial synthesis of life. The main idea of the book is that bioethics is necessarily connected to human practice: it is not just knowledge but a living culture.

Carențele guvernării în prioada interbelică

Author(s): Florin Grecu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 199-200/2019

Review of Bogdan Bucur, Sociologia proastei guvernări în România interbelică, Editura RAO, București, 2019, 728 pp., ISBN: 978-606-006-289-9

Доц. д-р Свобода Бенева на 80 години

Author(s): Maria Dobreva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

Наградите на фондация „Вигория“ за 2020 година

Author(s): Maria Dobreva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

Vigoria Foundation Awards for 2020

Events

Author(s): Julia Trzcińska,Róża Norström,Svetlana Bodrunova / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2019

Events

Author(s): Agnieszka Stępińska,Dominika Popielec / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2019

The Re-Emergence of Medieval Authorship Models in Contemporary Genres

Author(s): Gabriela Debita / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

Medieval, pre-print authorship differs significantly from modern authorship in that it is often anonymous, derivative, collaborative or conspiratorial. While the invention of the printing press completely revolutionized book production and led to an unprecedented diversification, availability, and affordability of printed material, it also profoundly changed authorship models and introduced new material and legal constraints. With publishers acting as gatekeepers, and with copyright laws limiting imitative and derivative authorship, informal authorship became difficult and derivative authorship dangerous from a legal point of view. However, the introduction of digital mediums eliminated some of these constraints, allowing medieval authorship models to re-emerge in a number of genres which were initially considered ‗fringe,‘ but which have been gradually joining the mainstream over the course of the last decade: fantasy fiction, videogames, and fan-fiction. This paper analyses two cases (the continuation of Robert Jordan‘s The Wheel of Time fantasy series by author Brian Sanderson, and the expansion of the World of Warcraft universe from the initial MMORPG to a complex network of canonical and non-canonical works, including fiction, visual art, animation, and cinema), and argues that medieval authorship practices are present in both. Our conclusion is that due to the popularity and profitability of fantasy franchises and to the flexibility of digital mediums, such authorship practices are gradually spreading upwards and inwards into mainstream publishing and are likely to become increasingly common in decades to come.

KULTURA I EDUKACJA MUZYCZNA. KIERUNKI ZMIAN – WYBRANE PROBLEMY

Author(s): Beata Bonna / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2019

The purpose of this article is to present issues focused on transformations taking place in the recognition of culture, including music culture, which justify the need for the intro- duction of significant changes to universal music education. Currently, we are moving away from the traditional and narrow approach to culture and the participation associated with it, which is incompatible with today’s socio-economic conditions. There is a visible transformation of the understanding culture from considering it in terms of consumption of cultural goods to defining culture as an activity that is a form of socialization through ac- tive participation. Today, culture is treated as a specific human living environment and at the same time a union of subcultures in which is predominant in popular culture, while other types and forms of it become kinds of niches. Given these transformations, there is a need to revise the shape of universal, still very traditional music education, which should aim to take greater account of new information technologies, referring to the potential of various ranges of music culture - artistic music, popular music and music of different cul- tures. It is also important to seek new teaching methods due to the low efficacy of those cur- rently used . All these changes are associated with the need to raise teachers’ qualifications.

Book review: Spaces of Longing and Belonging: Territoriality, Ideology and Creative Identity in Literature and Film. Еds. Brigitte Le Juez and Bill Richardson, Brill Rodopi, 2019.

Author(s): Amelia Licheva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Book review: Spaces of Longing and Belonging: Territoriality, Ideology and Creative Identity in Literature and Film. Еds. Brigitte Le Juez and Bill Richardson, Brill Rodopi, 2019.

Валентина Васева. (Съст.) Банатските българи – преди и сега. София: ДАБЧ, ИЕФЕМ – БАН, ДББ-Фалмис, 2019

Author(s): Lyubomir Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

58-а Международна академична седмица „Граници в Югоизточна Европа“, 30 септември – 4 октомври 2019 г., Тутцинг, Германия

Author(s): Desislava Pileva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

Michael Bromley & Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova (2019). Global Journalism: An Introduction. London: Red Globe Press pp. 282 ISBN: 978-1-137-6040403-3.

Author(s): Paulina Barczyszyn-Madziarz / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2020

Damian Guzek (2019). Mediatizing Secular State: Media Religion and Politics in Contemporary Poland. Berlin: Peter Lang pp. 333 ISBN: 978-3-631-77535-6.

Author(s): Rafał Leśniczak / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2020

Hristo Botev. Ludicrous cry (прев. Шон Фоли)

Author(s): Hristo Botev / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2019

Речник на лингвистичните термини за студенти слависти – ново помагало за филологическите специалности

Author(s): Zhana Stancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 02/2019

Човешкото тяло

Author(s): Vanya Ivanova,Gergana Petkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 02/2019

Две нови публикации по сравнително славянско езикознание

Author(s): Elena Krejčová / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 02/2019

Поучителни истории за необикновени делници

Author(s): No name Anonymous / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 02/2019

Национална научна конференция с международно участие „Памет и сърце. Осмисляне на българския тоталитарен опит“. Конференция в памет на Вихрен Чернокожев, 24-25 юни 2019 година

Author(s): Rositsa Chernokozheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 02/2019

Кръгла маса „Езикова агресия и общество“

Author(s): Elena Kreychova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 02/2019