The Spirit of 1776: Polish and Dalmatian Declarations of Philosophical Independence

Larry Wolff (Boston) The Spirit of 1776: Polish and Dalmatian Declarations of Philosophical Independence Summary   The article compares some texts and cultural phenomena from Eastern Europe or East Central Europe, which would correlate cultural manifestations in the region with the distant trans-Atlantic developments emphasizing the principle and agenda of national independence At 1776 Ignacy…

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Self-identification between the East and the West: the Greek characteristics of the Balkan phenomenon at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries

    Sanya Velkova Self-identification between the East and the West: the Greek characteristics of the Balkan phenomenon at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries Summary   The text treats the issue of “situating” the Greeks’ national self-identification between the understanding of the historical past, belonging to the…

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The shrewd way is to arm ourselves with their arms: Bulgarian modern debate about native and non-native art

    Albena Vacheva The shrewd way is to arm ourselves with their arms: Bulgarian modern debate about native and non-native art Summary   The article is a theoretical examination of modern Bulgarian vision about West (Europe) as a legitimizing instrument in the debate native/non-native art in Bulgarian cultural context after I World War I.…

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Rejected Europeism

    Nikoleta Patova Rejected Europeism Summary   In the process of creation and confirmation of our national self-consciousness, the cultural and historical awareness of the people is characterized by the operation of the mechanism of identification “we – the world”. With institutionalization of the national concepts and ideals, a vacuum is created in the…

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Visions of Europe in the Nineteenth-century Balkans: A Case Study in Cultural Transfer of Knowledge

    Diana Mishkova Visions of Europe in the Nineteenth-century Balkans: A Case Study in Cultural Transfer of Knowledge Summary   The underlying intention of the paper is to interrogate the current mainstream interpretation of the historical relations between the Balkans and the ‘West’ as it has emerged from the mirror reading of the Balkanism…

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Europe as Colonial Master: he Debate about the Railways in the Bulgarian Press from the Period of the National Revival

    Dessislava Lilova Europe as Colonial Master: The Debate about the Railways in the Bulgarian Press from the Period of the National Revival Summary   The purpose of the paper is to research the debate instigated by the building of railways across Bulgarian-populated areas of the Ottoman Empire at 1870s. This was not the…

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Western Visions

    Vitana Kostdinova Western Visions Summary   The understanding of Occidentalism underlying this presentation does not fall back on the definition articulated by Ian Buruma: “Something else is going on, which my co-author, Avishai Margalit, and I call Occidentalism (the title of our new book): a war against a particular idea of the West……

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The Double Mirror: the Orient and the Occident from the standpoint of Balkan Inbetweenness

    Dimitar Kambourov The Double Mirror: the Orient and the Occident from the standpoint of Balkan Inbetweenness Summary   The text will be dealing with the Revival strategies of double differentiation with regard to the Occident and the Orient in constructing a modern regional and national cultural identity of in-betweeenness based on the adoption…

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