идентичност

This text is an introduction to the next articles and offers their basis and their context. The author tries to define the key notions Identity, Other, and their variations. He also puts them in their Bulgarian context and presents two projects that stay behind them.

The paper traces in detail the controversies concerning Europe among different groups of the Greek society during the examined period. The problems connected with the image of Europe among the Greeks are important for the rationalization of their notion about themselves, about the Greek identity. The first point of view is connected with the Enlightenment and lays special emphasis on the following of the European patterns, whereas the second one places in the foreground the role of the Greek (antique and Byzantine) culture in the process of the origination of the notion of Europe.