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Biografija Ir Politinë Kova
Biography and Political Fight

Author(s): Tomas Kačerauskas
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Pragmatics, Existentialism, Hermeneutics, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: biography; fight; democracy; life-world; history; nation; individual;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the relation between an individual biography and the nation’s history. The author states that the environment both of the individual and the nation is linguistic-written. The next theses are raised: being inscribed into the political environment, the individual’s biography becomes a factor of its development; the political whole is an existential, linguistic and written environment of individual life; an individual creates his biography inscribing his existential history into this environment of mutual interconnections; the political environment is a dynamic open whole thanks to individual’s fight for his biographical whole. According to the author, the biography is a factor of the political body (brotherhood). The inscribing supposes a linguistic-written environment of mutual becoming. The theses are illustrated with help of examples from Lithuanian-Polish history. A special attention is paid to the sources of the Lublin union and to its architects who were influenced by biographical motives. The author presents a hypothesis that the political body of both nations was ruined not by the political brotherhood’s (noblemen’s) anxiousness about its democratic rights but by inadequate symbioses of democracy and aristocracy that did not prevent a hegemony of neighboring political bodies. As well, the author analyses the structure of democracy and its forms. According to the author, there is no etalon of democracy; there are only different forms of democracy. According to the author, as a symbiosis democracy is good, not having many shifts, voices and scriptures, but still able to form a harmonic political body that provides for the existential becoming of its individuals.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 54
  • Page Range: 28-39
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Lithuanian