 Compassion – a sociological unthinkable in Bulgaria 
The article analyses the causes and reasons for the persistent absence of the problem of compassion in Bulgarian sociology from the end of the Second World War to the present day. To explain this thematic and conceptual vacuum in two very different political, economic and ideological contexts – one dominated by the communist party state, the other of the liberal and democratic reconstruction of Bulgarian society – the reflection proceeds through a linguistic, historical and empirical detour. The lack of social recognition of compassion in the communist-type totalitarian society and the generalized mistrust in the post-totalitarian society are considered as characteristics of the state of social relations that reveal both deficiencies in compassionate practices and failures in the epistemological posture of sociology in Bulgaria