Among the German spatial economists August Lösch is arguably one who has had biggest lasting influence on international academic literature. After his death in May 1945, a legend was created according to which he fierce opponent national socialism. This part of attempts former colleagues and economics community at large disguise extent their own involvement agency advising economic social polic...

The uses and abuses of history are many. Most of them stem from the search for power rather than the truth. In a post-totalitarian country, the misremembered past may be used both against the previous regime and in its defense. From the perspective of “pure scholarship” both cases are deplorable, but the latter seems more obviously dangerous. Here we examine a few examples of this tendency in c...

Living under a totalitarian regime has many effects on the structure, way of thinking, and relations in a society. However, it is the impact on neonatal genetic screening that we discuss in this paper. Genetic screening functions at the interface between health services and society at large. Being involved for over a decade in setting up the Bulgarian PKU screening programme, we have had to dea...

One of the greatest effects of the digital media and Internet is the birth of a new political sensibility that extends beyond the boundaries of the local politics. Recent studies show that the digital citizens are more optimistic, tolerant and committed to change. And they vote. They vote for a more democratic society. It is not a surprise that the digital media are getting more attention by th...

Using an Arendtian approach, this article considers how key concepts in the texts of Mencius and Xunzi might be appropriated for 'legitimizing' totalitarian regimes. Taking unproblematized relation to a normative History Nature underlie plausibility such appropriation, it is argued that if any Confucianism would totalitarian, well Mencian instead Xunzian.