Jovana Skerlicia aksjologiczne wzorce autorytetów jako paradygmatów serbskiej kultury i literatury
Jovan Skerlić’s Axiological Patterns of Authorities as Paradigms of Serbian Culture and Literature

Summary/Abstract: This article indicates an incredibly sustainable and indisputable and therefore unprecedented significance of opinions of the prominent literary critic Jovan Skerlić. The significance of his unchallenged opinions was widely recognized in Serbia over many decades of the twentieth century and still remains crucial. Both his extremely negative view on the medieval culture, determined by his worldview horizon (a rationalist, “disciple of the West”), and axiological patterns of the nineteenth-century authorities he pointed to as paradigms of Serbian culture and literature, will have far-reaching consequences. Just as it was at the beginning of the twentieth century, so it will be today – the opinions imposed by the power of the critic’s authority will lead to stereotyped valorisations of already active contemporary continuators of the nineteenth-century authorities such as Dositej Obradović, Vuk Karadžić or Petar II Petrović Njegoš, and at the same time will employ a simplified categorization of dominant currents or types of traditions within Serbian culture.

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