Govor i demokracija
Speech and Democracy

Summary/Abstract: Speech has a constitutive significance for the community in a double sense. The community exists through speaking and apeaking is a precondition for a community to come into being. Listening is a constitutive feature of speaking. This means that a community is possible only if we listen. In the period of fixed ideology and of sterilized existence speech as a linking tissue of democratic political communal life appeared to be superfluous because the community was established from outside, by political and authoritarian means. Our political discourse was a discourse of identification rather than of communication. Yet in the process of political development as well as in the process of gaining knowledge concepts have to be clearly defined. Therefore even if dynamic social and political phenomena must undergo redefinition it is no less important that categories should be strictly delimited.

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