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The Age of Will: Philosophical Foundations, Political Expressions, and Cultural Shifts

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― Issue 1(27), 2025

Editor of this issue: Maija Kūle

Contents

Maija Kūle THE AGE OF WILL:
INTRODUCTION INTO THE THEME

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PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF WILL
Algis Mickunas METAPHYSICS OF THE WILL

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Jānis Tālivaldis Ozoliņš WILL, DESIRE,
AND NECESSITY

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Bence Peter Marosan RATIONAL WILL AND RATIONAL MOTIVATION.
HUSSERL ON THE POSSIBILITY OF ORGANIZING
A RATIONAL COMMUNITY

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Giulio Lo Bello A PHENOMENOLOGY OF UNCERTAINTY:
ON THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY
AND THE AGE OF ANXIETY

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POLITICAL EXPRESSIONS OF WILL TODAY
Mikhail Minakov FREEDOM AND PROGRESS
AT THE DAWN OF THE AGE OF WILL:
THE STRUGGLE OF TWO ENLIGHTENMENTS
IN THE CURRENT EURO-ATLANTIC DEBATE

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Leons Taivāns WILLFUL LEADERSHIP AND RELIGIOUS HERITAGE
IN ASIA: XI JINPING, VLADIMIR PUTIN,
AND RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN

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Joseph C. A. Agbakoba
& Anthony Chinaemerem Ajah		 REASONABILISM AND CREATIVE
RE-HUMANIZATION OF WILL IN AFRICA:
A TRANSCOLONIAL REFLECTION

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Yulia Sineokaya BARBARISM AS A RESULT OF THE OBSESSION
WITH STATE-CIVILIZATION

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Oleksandr Kulyk THE WILL TO FREEDOM: A UKRAINIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE ISSUE OF WILL

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Tatiana Shchyttsova THE GOOD WILL OF THE PEOPLE:
THE RISE OF A DEMOCRATIC WE
AND A CONTENTION OVER SOVEREIGNTY
IN THE BELARUSIAN REVOLUTION OF 2020

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CULTURAL TRENDS AND SOCIAL FEELING
Māris Kūlis WEAKNESS AS VALUE
IN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN CULTURE

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Olga Shparaga CARING DEMOCRACY AS A RESPONSE
TO THE FAR-RIGHT POPULISM:
A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE FROM BELARUS
AND BEYOND

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Maija Kūle BIG EVENTS, WILL AND THE QUEST
FOR HUMAN AUTONOMY
IN THE POSTPANDEMIC WORLD

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Anti-Americanism and Anti-Western Sentiments in Europe and Post-Soviet States

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― Issue 2(26), 2024

Editors of this issue: Maryna Bessonova & Spasimir Domaradzki

Contents

Maryna Bessonova
& Spasimir Domaradzki		 ANTI-AMERICANISM AND ANTI-WESTERN SENTIMENTS IN EUROPE AND POST-SOVIET STATES: INTRODUCTION

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ARTICLES
Mariia Panasiuk THE INTERPLAY OF ANTI-AMERICANISM
AND AMERICAN (POST)MODERNITY: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS BY BAUDRILLARD, ŽIŽEK, AND AGAMBEN

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Ruslan Zaporozhchenko
& Vyacheslav Nikulin		 ANTI-AMERICANISM AND THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR: IDEOLOGICAL ORIENTA(LISA)TIONS OF MODERN RUSSIA

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Viktoriia Mykhtunenko
& Yuliya Podriez		 EVOLUTION OF RUSSIAN ANTI-AMERICANISM:
ORIGIN, STAGES OF FORMATION AND CONSEQUENCES

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Megan Hauser
& Nataliia Kasianenko		 TO BLAME OR NOT TO BLAME? THE PLACE OF THE WEST IN UKRAINIANAND RUSSIAN WAR NARRATIVES

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Olga Makliuk
& Stanislav Cherkasov		 THE IMAGE OF EUROPE AND ANTI-WESTERN
NARRATIVES IN RUSSIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL
MODERN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS

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Oleksandr Y. Vysotskyi UKRAINIAN ANTI-AMERICANISM DURING FULL-SCALE RUSSIAN AGGRESSION THROUGH THE LENS
OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE’S PUBLIC DIPLOMACY:
A DECONSTRUCTIVE ATTEMPT

112
Yevheniia Horiunova
& Yana Horiunova		 ANTI-AMERICANISM AND ANTI-WESTERN SENTIMENTS
IN CRIMEA: BEFORE AND AFTER THE RUSSIAN OCCUPATION

130
Marin Gherman,
Liubov Melnychuk
& Antonina Shuliak		 ANTI-WESTERN NARRATIVES IN UKRAINE
AND ROMANIA (COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS)ANTI-WESTERN NARRATIVES IN UKRAINE
AND ROMANIA (COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS)

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Kateryna Kasatkina
& Kateryna Shymkevych		 REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF ANTI-AMERICANISM
IN POST-COMMUNIST STATES: THE CASES OF SLOVAKIA AND SERBIA

175
Khemis Mohammed,
Benouareth Charafeddine
& Bara Samir		 DOES THE ALGERIAN POLITICAL SCIENCES COMMUNITY HAVE ANTI-AMERICAN ATTITUDES?

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Maryna Bessonova,
Myroslava Lisovska
& Olena Pistrakevych		 ATTITUDES TOWARD THE U.S. IN THE BLACK SEA REGION: THE CASES OF TÜRKIYE, BULGARIA, AND ROMANIA

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Bálint Madlovics
& Bálint Magyar		 THE FATAL COMBINATION: HOW DEMOCRACY DIED IN RUSSIA AND HOW IT MAY SURVIVE IN UKRAINE

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REVIEWS
Victoria Vdovychenko BOOK REVIEW: Merlo, Simona (2023). Ucraina contemporanea. Una storia complessa. il Mulino, Bologna

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Maksym Yali BOOK REVIEW: Josticova, Hana (2024). Mariupol 2013–2022: stories of mobilization and resistance. Budapest, New York: Central European University Press

271
Olexandr Starukh BOOK REVIEW: Minakov, Mikhail (2024). The Post-Soviet Human. Philosophical Reflections on Post-Soviet History. Kyiv: Laurus — Milano: Kοινὴ

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