JANKO POLIĆ KAMOV I ČEZARE LOMBROZO: MODERNOST I POZITIVISTIČKA KRIMINOLOGIJA
JANKO POLIĆ KAMOV AND CESARE LOMBROSO: MODERNITY AND POSITIVISTIC CRIMINOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the sel e cted examples are an a lysed by using physiognomy theories and their influence on politics and everday reality is tested. Popular psychology handbooks by Dvornik ović show some typical features of Yougoslavs by using physiognomy discourse. The range of physiognomy theories which is strived for always exceeds the textural and tends to redesign the reality. Created by an Italian author, Cesare Lomboroso, these kinds of expectations may be identified and argued for in publicistic texts written by Janko Polić Kamov in the first decade of the 20 th century. The presence of Lombroso as mandatory reading could have given us an excuse for Kamov’s differences reference to his relationship towards the society. However, it appears that Lombroso’s impact on Janko Polić Kamov’s literature is more far - reaching and provocative. The paper attempts at creating an introduction into the future research of characterization based on the p roposition that morals influence physical appearance both in the stories and the novel by Janko Polić Kamov. Furthermore, the paper carries out a research to conclude whether this proposition is abandoned in order to confirm the author's positioning among the avant guarde authors, and not solely the modern ones. The research in the future is planned to be carried out by the analysis of modern Croatian and Serbian literature and the literature between two great wars. The paper will also observe the future ro les of the authors Kamov enthusiastically writes about: from the 1920's on, most of them will heartily welcome fascism, fundamentally based on the ideology of positivism. The presence of Lombroso and his followers, as well as their attitudes in Kamov’s feu illetons questions his understanding of modern and his position inside of Croatian modern. The latter has moved from ecstatic acceptance of science to its complete rejection, and it can be found in Kamov as a contradictory figure which finds both options p ossible, although at first it seems that he was an exclusive advocate of 19 th century positivism.

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