Civil Society in Southeast Europe

David C. Durst is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Arts & Humanities Division at the American University in Bulgaria. He is author of a study of Hegel and Schiller under the title Die politische Őkonomie der Sittlichkeit bei Hegel und der ästhetischen Kultur bei Schiller. Eine Studie zur politschen Vernunft (1993). Recent publications include journal articles in The Germanic Review, Heidegger Studies, Continental Philosophy Review, Contemporary Political Theory, and Res Public, and review-essays in Political Theory and Philosophische Rundschau. His forthcoming monograph is entitled Weimar Modernism. Philosophy, Politics and Culture in Germany 1918–1933. His research focuses primarily on nineteenth and twentieth-century continental aesthetic and political thought.Dane R. Gordon, born in London, England, served in the Royal Navy during World War II, graduated from the universities of Cambridge, London, and the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, and is currently Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. He is editor of the VIBS Special Series, Post Communist European Thought, including this volume and Philosophy in Post Communist Europe (1998) and Criticism and Defense of Rationality in Contemporary Philosophy (with Josef Niznik, 1998). Other publications include Thinking and Reading in Philosophy of Religion (1994), The Old Testament in its Historical, Cultural, and Religious Context (1985/1994), Philosophy and Vision (1998), and Epicurus: His Continuing Influence and Contemporary Relevance (with David Suits, 2003). He is a Presbyterian minister with the Presbytery of Genesee Valley, New York.

• Editorial Foreword by Dane R. GordonEditors’ IntroductionAcknowledgmentsONE Georgi FOTEV: Civil Society Against BalkanizationTWO Dane R. GORDON, Ann HOWARD: Ethics and the Environment in Eastern Europe THREE Scott BROPHY, Charles TEMPLE, Kurtis MEREDITH: Can Civic Virtue be Taught?FOUR Edward F. McCLENNEN: Organizations, Institutions, and ReformFIVE Ugo VLAISAVLJEVIC: The War Constitution of Small Nations of the Balkans, or “Who Is to be Reconciled in Bosnia and Herzegovina?” SIX Agon DEMJAHA, Lulzim PECI: The Development of Civil Society in Kosovo After the “Kosovo Conflict”SEVEN Obrad SAVIC: Concepts of Civil Society in Former YugoslaviaEIGHT Zagorka GOLUBOVIC: Traditionalism and Authoritarianism as Obstacles to the Development of Civil Society in Serbia NINE Silvano BOLCIC: Interests and Civil Action in Serbia in the NinetiesTEN Vojislav STANOVCIC: Civil Society and Rule of the Law in Multi-Ethnic CommunitiesELEVEN Aleksandar BOSKOVIC: Tolerance and Alterity in Southeastern EuropeTWELVE Maria DIMITROVA: The Intellectual and Society THIRTEEN Alexander GUNGOV: Wonderland in Southeast Europe: Civil Society in Bulgaria Emerging from a Crisis FOURTEEN Assen I. DIMITROV: Values and Stability During a Period of Social PolarizationFIFTEEN David C. DURST: Civil Society in Bulgaria: Prospects for ReconciliationAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndex

"Description of regimes is coupled to the identification of problems and the search for solutions. The value of such an interactive approach consists in privileging a dynamic analysis that allows readers to participate in the debate by reflecting on a large variety of possible solutions to the problem of constituting a strong and active civil society in South Eastern Europe." - in: Studies in East European Thought, Vol. 57, Issue 2 (2005)