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Between the two World Wars, in Belgrade and Serbia, seven musical journals were published: "Musical Gazette" (1922), "Music" (1928-1929), "Herald of the Musical Society Stanković" (1928-1934, 1938-1941; renamed to "Musical Herald" in january 1931), "Sound" (1932-1936), "Journal of The South Slav Choral Union" (1935-1936, 1938), "Slavic Music" (1939-1941) and "Music Review" (1940). The influence of marxism can be observed in "Musical Herald" (in the series from 1938), "Sound" and "Slavic Music". A Marxist influence is obvious through indications of determinism. Namely, some writers (Dragutin Čolić) observed elements of musical art and its history as (indirect) consequences of sociopolitical and economic processes. Still, journals published articles of domestic and foreign authors who interpreted the relation between music, society and economy in a much more moderate and subtle manner (D.Cvetko, A.Schering). Editors and associates of these journals also had proscriptive ambitions -- they recommended and even determined regulations for composers about what kind of music to write according to social goals and needs. According to tendencies in Marxism, there was a follow up of musical work in the Soviet Union. Editors tried not to be one-sided. There were writings about the USSR by left orientated associates as much as emigrants from that country, and articles of Soviet authors were translated. Also, there were critical tones about musical development in the first country of socialism. Serbian musical periodicals recognized the enormous threat from fascism. Also, there were articles about influence of Nazi ideology and dictatorship on musical prospects in Germany. Since Germany annexed Sudetenland in 1938, "Musical Herald" expressed support to musicians and people of that friendly country by devoting the October and November 1938 issue to Czechoslovak music, along with an appropriate introduction by the editor, Stana Đurić-Klajn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

In the article, Jan Lukasiewicz's worldview is analysed as one that led him to create multi-valued logic. There is also an attempt to explain why this logic lacks an ontological interpretation. The unity of Brentano's and Lukasiewicz's positions is shown. The author proposes to call both syllogistic by Brentano and three-valued logic by Lukasiewicz the two variants of apophatic logic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

The recent article aims at investigating the prerequisites that lead to the appearance of Mark C. Teylor and Esa Saarinen's book Imagologies. Media Philosophy (1994) - the first cyber-hype book introducing the problems of media philosophy. Clarifying methodological advantages and disadvantages, which derive from the imposition of global village and technological determinism respectively, the paper is committed to an analysis of terms such as simcult, electronic discourse and hypertext within the framework of Regis Debray's conception on cultural transmission and Marshall McLuhan's theory of "The Medium is the Message". Last but not least, the rise of media philosophy as mediology is examined. In its turn, Saarinen's pathos in negating academic philosophy is traced from Imagologies to his practical philosophy based on the reconsidered role of Socratic practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...