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PHILOSOPHIAM PROFITERI ILI O DERIDINOM ‘DEKLARATIVNOM ANGAŽMANU
PHILOSOPHIAM PROFITERI OR ON DERRIDA’S “DECLARATIVE ENGAGEMENT”

Author(s): Mile Savić
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: deconstruction; politics of friendship; declarative engagement; messianism

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author reconstructs the meaning of Derrida’s concept of “declarative engagement”. He shows that Derrida revives the modern idea of the “engaged intellectual” and even develops it in a radical, prophetic/messianic form. The final consequence of such a position, in the opinion of the author, is a paradoxical coupling of political decisionism with social escapism, which renews in a specific way the nostalgia for the “heroic role” of the Marxist intellectual vanguard. This is a major reason for Derrida’s popularity in Serbia, it is argued, but can also be taken as the starting point for an analysis of the problem of responsibility of engaged intellectuals.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 163-203
  • Page Count: 41
  • Language: Serbian
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