Alexander Karakachanov

• Assoc. Prof. PhD
• University of Library Studies and Information Technologies

The textbook “Current issues of political science. Cultural anthropological approach” is based theoretically on the propositions of the Integrative Theory of Social Development, which is presented in the author's monograph “Social Change. A Cultural Anthropological Approach“. Building upon this theoretical basis, the author defines political relati...

The book “Societal change (cultural anthropological approach)” takes a new approach to the explanation of changes in the macrostructure of society. The reason for undertaking this task is the author's dissatisfaction with the existing theoretical base which cannot thoroughly and unambiguously explain the reasons for the major social transformations...

Summary/Abstract: The object of research presented in the article is the transition from a totalitarian to a democratic society in Bulgaria from the 1990s and the 2000s, and its subject is the contribution of the subcultural communities formed in this period, to the implementation of various social changes. The main research hypothesis is that at t...

The purpose of this article is a philosophical and privatescientific argumentation of the Integration theory of the nature of consciousness. In its development, the author draws mainly on two achievements of the East-European tradition in psychology and philosophy of the mind. These are L. S. Vygotsky's Cultural-Historical Theory and A. Gavrilov's...

The article shares a best practice of the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia, related to the successful transfer of new fundamental knowledge from science to secondary education. It consisted of developing a new model of teaching of high school teachers, including the preparation of content and teaching aids, its prac...

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The collection presents the findings of a research project on the theme “Subcultures as agents of change in the Transition” that was conducted between April and December 2020 by a research team from the State University of Library Studies and Information Technology (SULSIT) in Sofia. The term “Transition” refers to the social, political and economi...

The purpose of this article is to propose a new approach to typologizing political leaders. It is based on nine classification attributes, defined both by the structure in which the leader appears and by his personal qualities. The applicability of the proposed typology is illustrated on the basis of the leadership contingent from the period of tra...

Bulgaria’s transition from totalitarianism to a society with a market economy and functioning democratic institutions is a complex, multifaceted and controversial process. The purpose of the paper is to reveal its internal socio-cultural mechanisms, without which the historical process would not have been possible. To this end, the paper explores t...

This monograph examines the theoretical foundations of the science of "philosophical anthropology", and as a result proposes a modern rationale to avoid speculation accumulated in the course of its historical development. The task is to achieve a modern integrative definition of human being, which, in the spirit of our time, combined theoretical de...

The article analyzes the notion of "socialism" as a structural unit within the concept of historical development of Marx’s ideology. The contradictions are revealed when attempts are made to give “differentia specifica” through this notion to the societies of the so-called "socialist camp" that existed until the end of the 1980s. The analysis neces...

Historical development in its largest dimensions is a series of monopolizations and demonopolizations in the three basic spheres of society - economic (property), political and spiritual. From this point of view, the transition from totalitarianism to democracy is nothing unique, but simply a process of demonopolization of these three spheres. On t...

The purpose of the article is to examine Marx's views on the "Human History Development Laws" by assessing their relevance to the realities of social development. The vast historical inertia, as well as the suggestive power of Marxism, do not allow its rejection solely on the basis of the latter's inability to give a convincing explanation of the s...

The aim of the present article is to demonstrate possibilities of the monopolistic model to offer a methodology for comparative analysis of different societies, with the help of which to resolve the multitude terminological and systemic contradictions of the most popular formation model.

The treatise Man and Mind is a philosophical and private-scientific argumentation of the Integration theory of the nature of man and consciousness. In its development, the author Alexander P. Karakachanov, draws mainly on two achievements of the East-European tradition in psychology and philosophy of the mind. These are L. S. Vygotsky’s Cultural-Hi...

The purpose of this article is to examine the contribution of Aristotel Gavrilov, a representative of antirepresentationalism (or presentationism, in the terminology of the Bulgarian philosophical tradition). The significance of this contribution is determined not only by the fact that it is an original attempt to formulate an extended philosophica...

The controversy between the representatives of presentationism and representationism in the 20th century centered around the nature of mental imagery, which is directly related to the nature of mind. Unlike the Western tradition of "philosophy of mind", in the Eastern European philosophical tradition the concept of "image" (mental imagery) is a cen...

The processes of national economy during the transition cannot be explained by the instruments of classical economics and the reason is not the "extraordinary" of this historical period, but the approach. The fabric of real life can only be conditionally "torn" between different social disciplines, and the additional limitation within abstract form...

The suggestive power of Marxism, and the huge historical inertia, put in a difficult situation contemporary social science. The latter is in debt to society, because it can't offer an approach to overcome the shortcomings of Marxism in the explanation of social dynamics and historical process. This article is an attempt to make a step in this direc...