Abstract

The papers which follow were presented at an international conference which was held in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest in March 1992. The conference, the first in a series of Monist Colloquia sponsored by the Hegeler Institute, was directed by G. M. Tamas and J. C. Nyiri, both of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. _Contents_ J. C. NYIRI: Tradition and Bureacratic Lore: Lessons from Hungary TIBOR HAJDU: Ideology and Technology: A Comment on Nyfri G.M. TAMAS: Conservatism, Philosophy and Eastern Europe E. GELLNER: An Ideological Might-Have-Been WOJCIECH ZELANIEC: Philosophy and Ideology: The Case of Poland JAN WOLENSKI: Marxism and the Professionalisation of Philosophy JAN PAVLIK: Philosophy, “Parallel Polis” and Revolution: The Case of Czechoslovakia WILLIAM McBRIDE and IVANKA RAYNOVA: Visions From the Ashes: Philosophical Life in Bulgaria from 1945 to 1992 EDWARD M. SWIDERSKI: The Crisis of Continuity in Post-Soviet Russian Philosophy BARRY SMITH: The New European Philosophy