Isaac Passy

Isaac Passy (Bulgarian: Исак Паси; 13 March 1928, Plovdiv – 13 August 2010) was a Jewish Bulgarian philosopher specializing in aesthetics. He was a professor at Sofia University from 1952 until 1993. He was the most prolific philosopher in the history of Bulgaria. He published over 40 monographs and over 80 volumes of the philosophical classics. He was the father of Solomon Passy.

• Tragic (1963)
• Philosophical Literary Studies (1968, 1981, 1987, 1993)
• Funny (1972, 1979, 1993, 2001, 2002)
• Thomas Mann (1975, 2008)
• Aesthetics of Kant (1976)
• French moralists (1978)
• Essays (1981, 1987, 1993)
• German classical aesthetics (1982, 1985, 1991)
• Metaphor (1983, 1988, 1995, 2001, 2002)
• Aesthetics of German Romanticism (1984) (collection)
• At the Sources of Modern Aesthetics (1987)
• Problems, people, memories (1992)
• Autobiographical essays and articles (1994, 1997, 2002)
• Towards a philosophy of life. Eight philosophical portrait (1994)
• Biography of the Spirit (1994, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007)
• Thoughts and Thinkers (1995, 1998)
• Russian Thinkers (1996, 2000)
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1996)
• Arthur Schopenhauer (1998)
• Søren Kierkegaard (1998)
• Human and People (1998)
• Fragments. Miniatures. Travels (1998)
• Contemporary Spanish Philosophy: Miguel de Unamuno and human tragedy, Jose Ortega y Gasset and the sociology of our century (1999)
• Philosophical fragments and miniatures (2000)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000)
• Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche (2001)
• Nikolai Berdyaev. Portrait of Philosophical Experience (2001)
• Justification of human behavior: 14 social-psychological Essays (2002)
• Selected Works in 6 volumes (2003-2004)
• Man does not live only with reason: Ten Essays on European iratsionalizam (2006)
• Reasons for human behavior: 60 social-psychological Essays (2006)
• French thinkers (2007)
• Portraits of Philosophy (2007)
• Philosophical portraits, miniatures and fragments (2008)
• Philosophical messages (2008)
• Autobiography. Forty-four philosophical experiences (2009)

Blaise Pascal, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustave LeBon, Dmitry Merezhkovski, Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Miguel de Unamuno, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Søren Kierkegaard, Vladimir Solovyov, Lev Shestov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Thomas Mann, Cicero, Horace and several others.