THE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE
SERIES IVA, EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE, VOLUME 12
CREATING DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES:
Values and Norms
BULGARIAN PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, II
edited by
Plamen Makariev
Andrew M. Blasko
Asen Davidov
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
FOREWORD
PART I. TOTALITARIANISM AS POINT OF DEPARTURE
Chapter I. Communism and Its Implosion in Eastern Europe
Serghei Stoilov Gerdzhikov
Chapter II. The Power of Perception: the Case of Soviet-style Aesthetics
PART II. THE COMPLEX TRANSITION
Chapter III. Democracy and Human Rights in the Aftermath of the Totalitarian Challenge
Miloslav Bednár
Chapter IV. Liberalism and Liberal Democracy: Paradox and Puzzles
Joseph Margolis
Chapter V. Values, Norms, Individuals: Modern and/or Post-modern (Twenty Theses on
Chapter VI. Identity as Openness to Others
George F. McLean
Chapter VII. Social Values in a Time of Change: An Hegelian Approach
Tom Rockmore
PART III. FEATURES OF DEMOCRATIZATION
Chapter VIII. Beyond Modernity
Vessela Misheva
Chapter IX. Bulgarian Cultural Identity
Anna Krasteva
Chapter X. Christian Values and Modern Bulgarian Culture
Georgi Kapriev
Chapter XI. Promoting Inter-ethnic Dialogue in Bulgaria
Acknowledgements