The papers collected under the title »Truth and the Reality of Contemporaneity« deal with the question of truth in phenomenological and hermeneutical philosophy. In this context the phenomenon of contemporaneity comes to the fore, which is defined in a number of aspects as the »absence of truth«. Truth does not therefore appear only as the theme in the theory of cognition or in practical activities but in the way of arriving at truth, which defines the historical situation of humanity as such.
COBISS.SI-ID: 235004672
The philosophical presuppositions of interculturality can be discussed in several directions. The first line would be that we take philosophy, as it has developed in its two-and-a-half-thousand-year-old history, for the traditional ground of intercultural sense of Europe and West. The second line considers the question as to how can we, on this very ground, philosophically handle the intercultural phenomena. And thirdly, we can detect the influence of intercultural mutual understanding on the way philosophy today understands its sense and purpose.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31214178
The word Weltliteratur, “world literature,” is a coinage of Goethe. He used it publicly for the first time in the beginning of 1827. Since then, the term has appeared in his statements, approximately twenty in number, yet it seems as if the unfinished happening of world literature were both a cause and at the same time a justification for vagueness which, on the other hand, contributed to the dynamic Wirkungsgeschichte of its concept.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33050722
The ambivalence of lifeworld provides the ground given in advance, without which life (always as life in the world) could not be possible, and neither its scientific objectification; while on the other hand, it doesn’t embrace only the ground but rather all activities on this ground, evincing as such the cultural-historical world (in which science itself acquires the meaning of a cultural institution and foundation
COBISS.SI-ID: 36492642
On the basis of archive material and comparative studies the author deals with the policy of Slovene and Yugoslav communist authorities towards the Catholic Church in the postwar period. In establishing the relations between the state and the church, the people's democracies followed the Soviet example; however, as it presented an approach to the Orthodox Church, they were forced to modify the Soviet model in their relations to the Catholic Church due to an external factor – the Vatican.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2456180