TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. BOOK REVIEWS
Mass Conversions to Christianity and Islam, 800–1100, ed. Tsvetelin
Stepanov and Osman Karatay, 2024, Palgrave Macmillan,
352 pp., €106.99, ISBN: 9783031344282
Iliya Metchkov (RHM Sofia)...................................................................... 7
Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff, Demophobie. Muss man die direkte
Demokratie fürchten? 2023, Frankfurt am Main Klostermann
Verlag, 212 pp., €24, ISBN: 9783465046134
Ulrich Arnswald (Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau /
Universität Innsbruck) ............................................................................ 14
Петър Пламенов “Екстаз от текста. Естетически опит с текста.
Удоволствие и критика, София, Университетско издателство
Св. Климент Охридски,” 2023. (Peter Plamenov, Ecstasy
of the Text: Aesthetic Experience with the Text: Pleasure
and Criticism. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press,
2023. 480 pp. ISBN 978-954-07-5276-1.)
Alexander Gungov (University of Sofia).................................................... 21

II. ASPIRATION CORNER........................................................................ 25
Playing the Political: The Role of Improvisation
in Deleuze and Guattari
Alistair Macaulay (Deakin University)....................................................... 25
A New Vision of Practical Wisdom
Martin Smith (University of Sofia)............................................................. 45
Philosophical Perspectives on Pluriculturalism
Marco Crosa (University of Sofia) ............................................................ 63
Descartes in the Chatbot: The Leap from Technology to Ontology
Fu-Shoun Mao (University of Sofia) ......................................................... 73
David Goldberg’s Critique of Racial States: Is Heterogeneity
the Answer?\
Alex-Flavius Deaconu (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale) .................. 85

III. ANNOUNCEMENTS ......................................................................... 101
Master’s Program in Philosophy Taught in English
at the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Doctoral Program in Philosophy Taught in English
at the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski” ..................................... 104

IV. INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHORS ............................................. 107