TABLE OF CONTENTS

І. SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE IMAGINATION OF OUR TIMES

Interview with Agnes Heller
Conducted by Nikolaos Vlahakis (PhD Candidate, Sofia University) ..... 5

ІІ. YET ANOTHER RETURN TO VICO

VICO’S IUS GENTIUM
Thora Ilin Bayer (Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans) ..... 12

III. SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTED TO THE PUBLIC SHPERE

Mothering as World-Building and other “Hera-Cies”: Tracing the Liberal Arts Traditions in Support of Service-Learning and Public Engaged Scholarship
Marie Sandy (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) ..... 25

Humanistic Knowledge, Service-Learning, and Public Engaged Scholarship: Marie Sandy’s Intersections with Hannah Arendt, Feminist Care Ethics, American Pragmatism, and Hans-Georg Gadamer
Rossen I. Roussev (University of Veliko Turnovo) ..... 49

Foucauldian Resonances: Agamben on Race, Citizenship, and the Modern State
Elvira Basevich (The Graduate Center, CUNY) ..... 61