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Postmodern or post‐totalitarian: The reality of the crisis of the Bulgarian intellectual

Postmodern or post‐totalitarian: The reality of the crisis of the Bulgarian intellectual he celebrated death of communism has given contemporary currency to the notional "crisis" of philosophy initiated by modernity. As the West is rejoicing in the "official passing away of its own past," so the argument goes,l the new post-totalitarian yanna popova societies have begun the painful exercise of coming to terms with the freshly inherited, highly specialized and fragmented systems of articulation of the postmodern world. The POSTMODERN critical perspective informing the choices OR POST- that intellectuals of so-called "Eastern Europe" now face is torn between the ago- TOTALITARIAN nizing necessity of what Bauman has called "the final retreat from the dreams and ambi- the reality of the tions of modernity,"2 and the "joyous immersion in postmodern fluidity."3 crisis of the bulgarian Contemporary Bulgarian society is thus presently pulled apart by the momentum of intellectual these two opposite tendencies tinted, of course, with the local particularity of Bulgaria's own history. In what is to follow, the global problems arising from the appar- almost five centuries Bulgaria remained a ent collision between the totalitarian East shadowy province in the northwestern and the postindustrial West that have Ottoman Empire, its social and cultural marked political and ideological changes in achievement effaced, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

Postmodern or post‐totalitarian: The reality of the crisis of the Bulgarian intellectual

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Postmodern or post‐totalitarian: The reality of the crisis of the Bulgarian intellectual

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he celebrated death of communism has given contemporary currency to the notional "crisis" of philosophy initiated by modernity. As the West is rejoicing in the "official passing away of its own past," so the argument goes,l the new post-totalitarian yanna popova societies have begun the painful exercise of coming to terms with the freshly inherited, highly specialized and fragmented systems of articulation of the postmodern world. The POSTMODERN critical perspective...
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Abstract

he celebrated death of communism has given contemporary currency to the notional "crisis" of philosophy initiated by modernity. As the West is rejoicing in the "official passing away of its own past," so the argument goes,l the new post-totalitarian yanna popova societies have begun the painful exercise of coming to terms with the freshly inherited, highly specialized and fragmented systems of articulation of the postmodern world. The POSTMODERN critical perspective informing the choices OR POST- that intellectuals of so-called "Eastern Europe" now face is torn between the ago- TOTALITARIAN nizing necessity of what Bauman has called "the final retreat from the dreams and ambi- the reality of the tions of modernity,"2 and the "joyous immersion in postmodern fluidity."3 crisis of the bulgarian Contemporary Bulgarian society is thus presently pulled apart by the momentum of intellectual these two opposite tendencies tinted, of course, with the local particularity of Bulgaria's own history. In what is to follow, the global problems arising from the appar- almost five centuries Bulgaria remained a ent collision between the totalitarian East shadowy province in the northwestern and the postindustrial West that have Ottoman Empire, its social and cultural marked political and ideological changes in achievement effaced,

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Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 1997

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