KX – CRITIQUE AND HUMANISM Publishing House

Hartmut ROSA
Translation: Svetla MARINOVA

Hartmut Rosa (born 1955) is one of the most promising nowadays sociologists and social philosophers, and most of the academics agree his theories are just the “next step” in the brilliant tradition of the German Frankfurt School. The book has been announced to be a new stage of the critical social theory. In this new version it is based on the changing temporal structures of society and their ‘promise’ to solve the crises of the contemporary society toward a newly conceived “good life”.

2015 - 590 pages - 20 cm X 14 cm - ISBN: 978 954 587 194 8
Design: Yana LEVIEVA
Series: “Varius”

Georg SIMMEL
Translation: Theodora KARAMELSKA

Georg Simmel (1858-1918), a notorious German philosopher and sociologist of culture, has prodigiously influenced establishing the subjects of sociology as an university discipline. Our original collection of texts consists in essays in sociology of culture. This is namely in these “small sociological forms” that Simmel reaches to a brilliant (incl. in its literary style) representation of some aspects of his diagnosis of modernity. Simmel is presenting here a sort of „snapshots sub specie aeternitatis“ in order to manifest that the „sociological objective” is able to catch out social phenomena as “lie”, “fashion”, “gratitude”, “faithfulness”, etc. – ones that construct the life of the society in its dimensions of intelligibility and mysteriousness.

2014 - 268 pages - 20 cm X 13 cm - ISBN: 978 954 587 185 6
Design: Yana LEVIEVA
Series: “Varius”

Robert WALSER; Giorgio AGAMBEN
Translation: Maria DOBREVSKA

This is the chef-d-oeuvre of the prose of Robert Walser (1878-1956) – a very sophisticated and incredibly fine, even fragile piece of text of an author who appeared to be the favourite one of genius like W. Benjamin, F. Kafka, H. Hesse. Our edition is unique because of including also a brilliant piece of text by one of the most famous nowadays philosophers, Giorgio Agamben.

2014 - 126 pages - 20 cm X 13 cm - ISBN: 978 954 587 179 5
Design: Yana LEVIEVA
Series: “Transversalia”