Front matter

Abstract

Annual of Sofia University “St Kliment Ohridski” — Centre for Culturology is a thematic issue dedicated to Prof. Atanas Natev, opening with a biographical note on his career and international recognition (including the Gottfried von Herder Prize) and a comprehensive bibliography of his works compiled by Stefka Piskuliyska and Krassimira Daskalova.

The core articles span aesthetics, cultural theory, theatre studies, anthropology, and the mythologization of historical memory. Valentin Angelov advocates a culturological account of the artistic image beyond narrow epistemology; Angel Angelov & Dimitri Dotschev reassess Leo Spitzer’s psychostylistics through hermeneutics; Yana Hashamova outlines methodological approaches in theatre theory; Sonia Asenova sketches a logic-epistemological profile of ecological anthropology; Dimitri Ginev proposes a typology of culture theories (Part I); Evgenia Ivanova traces how “real” historical figures are transformed in legend and epic.

Two contributions expand the scope internationally: Iris von Bredow presents Part I of a study on Old Anatolian (Hittite) deities based on ritual texts, and Christopher Read examines the Russian intelligentsia and the October Revolution — mapping attitudes, social conditions and fates. The volume thus bridges local and global perspectives on culture, textuality, and historical remembrance.