Poststructuralism and the Retreat of the Political Cover Image

Poststrukturalizam i povlačenje političkog
Poststructuralism and the Retreat of the Political

Author(s): Milorad Belančić
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine

Summary/Abstract: Poststructuralism, probably the most significant orientation in modern French philosophy, based its political intervention on a certain critique of humanism and the legitimizating ideological functions of humanism in a number of political strategies. At first this critique led to what Liotard rightly called a degree of “relaxation.” Nowadays, however, at the beginning of the 21st century, this stage is over, and the neo-liberal interpretation of the end of great narratives, in which exchange (more usually known these days as the global free market) becomes the supreme principle, is itself shown to be a great hegemonistic narrative subject to critique. It is now evident that politics that render us sensitive to and tolerant of differences are conceived in a post-hegemonistic culture in which a democracy of differences is at work.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 01+02
  • Page Range: 55-66
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bosnian