A pragmatist thinker like Nicholas Rescher deems the idea that social harmony must be predicated in consensus to be both dangerous and misleading. An essential problem of our time is the creation of political and social institutions that enable people to live together in peaceful and productive ways…

Kalket gjuhësore nga gjuha italiane, siç vihet në dukje në hulumtimin e kësaj dukurie të ndërndikimit në përmbledhjet me novela Hija e maleve dhe Tregtár flamujsh të Ernest Koliqit, kanë qenë të pranishme që në debutimet narrative të autorit. Krijimtaria letrare e Koliqit, që rrok një hark kohor gjy…

Erving Goffman’s emphasis on impression management in everyday life means that for the most part persons offer only partial or incomplete glimpses of themselves. Indeed, under specifiable conditions self-presentations may take the form of a negational self. If negational selves exist at the person o…

Studimet mbi letërsinë janë pjesë e rëndësishme e veprimtarisë shkencore të botuar në revistën “Studime filologjike”. Të përfaqësuara me vetëm një artikull në dy vitet e para (1964, 1965), gradualisht është shtuar pesha e pranisë, rolit e cilësisë së studimeve letrare, të cilat mund të themi se janë…

Injac Zamputi spikat në studimet tona si një kërkues këmbëngulës që nuk bëri dallim mes disiplinave që i shërbejnë sistemimit dhe kontekstualizimit të ngjarjeve historike më të rëndësishme të mesjetës së vonë shqiptare dhe periudhave që e pasojnë atë. Gjurmues serioz i një dokumentacioni që dëshmon…

The main contention of this article is the following: sociology, like all the modern sciences, was born out of philosophy. But, ungratefully enough and perhaps because of a deepseated inferiority complex vis-à-vis the older well established sciences, sociology tends to forget or at least to blurr it…

In the aftermath of Cold War, the system of United Nations (UN) Peace Missions assumed new proportions, by adjusting the nature of political developments, which characterized the international relations stage in this period. In the peace-keeping agenda of these missions, special focus was given to i…

Tourism plays an important role in many economies and contributes greatly to the Gross Domestic Product. In the past eight years, the number of tourist arrivals in Albania has increased rapidly, which resulted in increasing the number of tourist nights and revenue from tourism. Tourism also provides…

The main contention of this article is the following: sociology, like all the modern sciences, was born out of philosophy. But, ungratefully enough and perhaps because of a deepseated inferiority complex vis-à-vis the older well established sciences, sociology tends to forget or at least to blurr it…

Richard Rorty wrote on many occasions that called the linguistic turn was an attempt to keep philosophy an armchair discipline. “The idea - he said - was to mark off a space for a priori knowledge into which neither sociology nor history nor art nor natural science could intrude”. Linguistic analysi…

Since its inception, the governments of 29 European countries (member states of the Bologna Declaration in 1999) had as their main target the creation of a common and coherent system of Higher Education Area in Europe (EHEA). The main intention for the creation of a ‘European Education Area’ was the…