TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. IMMANUEL KANT’S RECENT ANNIVERSARY.......................... 7
Kant’s Influence on Levinas’ Conception of Time
Maria Dimitrova (University of Sofia) ........................................7
The Thing-in-Itself
Todor Polimenov (University of Sofia)..................................... 18
Overcoming the Illusions of Piety through Rational and Phenomenological Religiosity
Alexander Gungov (University of Sofia).......................................... 32

II. BOOK REVIEWS....................................................................... 43
Dustin Peone, ed., Essays in Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy: Considering the Views of Donald Phillip Verene. Reddick, FL: Felice Mosca, 2025. 230 pp. $24.99. ISBN: 979-8-9991676-0-6
Nataliya Atanasova (University of Sofia).......................................... 43
Kaveh Boveiri, Marxian Totality: Inverting Hegel to Expound Worldly Matters. Leiden: Brill (Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 322), 2024. ISBN:978-90-04-70397-1
Aleksandar Todorovski (University of Sofia)...................................... 49

III. ASPIRATION CORNER............................................................... 55
Anticipating Degrowth: Reading Luxemburg and Benjamin Towards an Alternative Politics of Democracy
Lukasz Chryniewicz (University of Sofia)........................................... 55
Genealogy of the Instant: Plato’s ἐξαίφνης, Paul’s καιρός,and the Emergence of Kairological Time
Severina Stankeva (University of Sofia)............................................. 75
The Dialectic and Its Undoing: Lukács, Benjamin, and Nietzsche on Capitalist Ideology
Maria Chatzopoulou (University of Sofia)........................................... 91
Seriously Funny: Disco Elysium and the Aesthetics of the Metamodern Condition
Severina Stankeva (University of Sofia) ........................................... 111
On the Necessity of Integrative Approaches in Developmental Psycholinguistics: An Anti-Radical Synthesis
Janos Rosenberg (University of Sofia).............................................. 120
In Defense of Agency: Free Will, the Self, and Participatory Metaphysics
Daniel Tarpy (University of Sofia)..................................................... 135
Spectacles of Power: Cultural Representations and Structural Myth in the History of Hawai’i
Jaclynn Joseph (University of Sofia)................................................. 159
Measuring Ethical Expectations: The Most Accurate Way to Assess the Culture of Integrity
Muhamet Kqiku (University of Sofia)................................................. 173
Augmenting Education: Philosophical Reflections on AI, Knowledge, and the Human Condition in High Schools
Vincenzo Filetti (Liceo T. Gargallo).................................................... 180
Kurzweil and the Coming Brain Drain
John Hawkins (University of Sofia).................................................... 187

IV. ANNOUNCEMENTS...................................................................... 207
Master’s Program in Philosophy Taught in English
at the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski” ................................. 207
Doctoral Program in Philosophy Taught in English
at the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”................................... 210

V. INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHORS............................................ 213