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Feminism as an antiwar strategy and practice: the case of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine
The dynamics of political processes in the postcommunist states of Eastern Europe in the 2000s to early 2020s demonstrated a significant number of...
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Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy
This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation,...
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Middle Eastern Existentialism
What is Middle Eastern existentialism? In answering this question, one must consider a couple of other, related questions: (1) how did Middle Eastern...
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The Place and Significance of Nishida’s Philosophy in Europe and North America
This chapter describes five partially overlap** frames of reference that have tended to define European-language presentations and translations of...
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Early Phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe Main Figures, Ideas, and Problems
This book presents the origins of Central and Eastern European phenomenology. It features chapters that explore the movement's development, its most...
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An Eastern European and Baltic Perspective on Humanizing Business: The Role of State, Social Entrepreneurship, and For-Profit Enterprises
The chapter describes the situation of business humanizing in EEC and Baltic States. Research includes the overview of countries’ social systems...
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“A Mountain of Nonsense”? Czech and Slovenian Receptions of Materialism and Vitalism from c. 1860s to the First World War
In general, historians of science and historians of ideas do not focus on critical appraisals of scientific ideas such as vitalism and materialism...
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Marian Zdziechowski’s work On Cruelty (1928–1938). Between past and present
The following article begins with my recollection of the only academic conference on Zdziechowski that was organised still under the communist regime...
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Symbolic Understanding of the Sky and Celestial Entities: An Archaeological Approach of Late Prehistoric Celestial Signs in the Carpathian Basin
European prehistoric decorative art abounds in motifs that are not humble decorative elements but seem to be significant signs. Circles, concentric...
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The Fragility of the Romanian Orthodox Church
Romanian orthodoxy is highly institutionalized, and any analysis should be built around the Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC) and its status as an...
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The Book: Building Bridges – Exposing Gaps
This chapter presents the structure of the entire book Consciousness Studies in Sciences and Humanities: Eastern and Western Perspectives as formal...
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Mittel as a Process: Saigusa Hiroto’s Philosophy of Technology and the Question of Culture
This article introduces the little-studied figure of Saigusa Hiroto, a twentieth century Marxist philosopher who reconstructed the history of...
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Migration Crisis and the Rise of Anti-humanitarian Populism in Europe
Over the last few years, the so-called migrant crisis has been acquiring a growing relevance within the space of the political experience of the...
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Possevino, Antonio
Antonio Possevino was a Jesuit, diplomat, scholar, college founder and administrator. A very active member of his order in the core phase of its...
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Ethics between East and West: Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki and Albert Schweitzer
Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki (1878–1939) is mainly known for being the wife of D.T. Suzuki鈴木大拙 (1870–1966), the Japanese religious studies scholar...
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The Road to the European Social Green Deal: Class Struggle or Counter-Hegemony
Addressing the crisis of neoliberal capitalism, Albena Azmanova proceeds from the fact that any alternative – any positive utopia or alternative...
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Lewis and Quine in context
Robert Sinclair’s Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism, and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction persuasively argues that Quine’s epistemology was deeply...
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Ambivalence toward euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has decreased among physicians in Finland
BackgroundDebates around euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are ongoing around the globe. Public support has been mounting in Western...
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Jesuits and Chinese Atheism: Back and Forth Between Europe and China
When the word ‘atheism’ landed in China with Matteo Ricci, it had no negative connotation. Ricci adopted it for the Confucian mandarins, the...