AUVT vol. XXI/2009

Contents:

SECTION I: PHILOSOPHY:

Mihaela Meral AHMED: Theatrum Mundi

Ioan BIRIŞ: La spécificité des concepts des sciences sociales

Ilona BÎRZESCU : Valences éthiques de la rationnalité communicative. De Gadamer à Habermas

Florin LOBONŢ: The Christian concept of God and “the new epistemological idealism”

Andreea NAGY: Traduction et étrangeté

Adrian PĂCURAR: Consumption and Consumer in New Free Market Economies from Eastern Europe. Elements for a Weak Philosophy of Consumerism

Iasmina PETROVICI: “Fiction” and “Model” in Scientific Knowledge

Virgil Laurenţiu SPĂTARU: On Wittgenstein and the imaginary number a quasi-conventional and mathematical aporia of this pluri-lematic number

SECTION II: COMMUNICATION SCIENCES

Oana BARBU: Metaphor in advertising

Adina BAYA: “Consume or Die”: Media, Necrophobia and Hyperconsumerism in Don Delillo’s White Noise

Adrian PĂCURAR: Public Relations disaster as a particular symbol of power. Modern Kremlin and nuclear crisis management. Kursk Tragedy. The cult of sacrifice and the old spirit of Mother Russia