{"id":764,"date":"2015-02-22T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/?p=764"},"modified":"2015-02-22T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T13:00:42","slug":"angel-kondov-the-bulgarian-civilizational-choice-beyond-the-propagandas-cliche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Angel Kondov \u2013 The Bulgarian \u2018civilizational choice\u2019 beyond the propaganda\u2019s cliche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Over the last twenty years the expression \u201ccivilizational choice\u201d has entered permanently in the Bulgarian political vocabulary. What is the hidden connotation in its use? Is it correct from the point of view of the concept of \u201ccivilization\u201d or it is used as an ordinary propaganda clich\u00e9? \u2013 These are the questions raised in this article, which defends the thesis that the theoretical contents of the term \u201ccivilization\u201d allows the derivative expression \u201ccivilizational choice\u201d to be used only when it pertains to the result of a cultural-historical process, in which a society adopts the symbols, the values, and the ideals characteristic of a civilization, while its use for the purpose of validating a particular political, economic or cultural act of the day is inappropriate and is a sign of unreflected political prejudices, fears, and complexes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Key words:<\/strong> society, culture, cultural tradition, ideology, civilization, civilizational choice, globalization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rhetoric and Communications E-journal, Issue 16, January 2015, rhetoric.bg\/, journal.rhetoric.bg, ISSN 1314-4464<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"\u0411\u044a\u043b\u0433\u0430\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0438\u044f\u0442 \u201e\u0446\u0438\u0432\u0438\u043b\u0438\u0437\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u0435\u043d \u0438\u0437\u0431\u043e\u0440\u201d \u043e\u0442\u0432\u044a\u0434 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0430\u0433\u0430\u043d\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0442\u043e \u043a\u043b\u0438\u0448\u0435\" href=\"http:\/\/rhetoric.bg\/%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B2-%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%8F%D1%82-%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0\">Read the original of the text (in Bulgarian)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Over the last twenty years the expression \u201ccivilizational choice\u201d has entered permanently in the Bulgarian political vocabulary. What is the hidden connotation in its use? Is it correct from the point of view of the concept of \u201ccivilization\u201d or it is used as an ordinary propaganda clich\u00e9? \u2013 These are the questions raised in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-january-2015-issue-16"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}