S onu stranu slobodne i cenzurirane štampe
Beyond Free and Censored Press

Summary/Abstract: The present paper discusses five phenomena: censored press, self-censored press, free press, free public, and different national, religious and political homogenization. The author’s central thesis is that political democracy presupposes a specific character of political action with its own phenomenological structure. The space of continued realization of political rights is a free public, as a space in which different political interests and options manifest themselves. A free public as a space for political action is threatened by those forces which try to annul or restrict that space, and not by the religious or national views of citizens who bring their persuasions into the political public. The political public is never faceless: it Is always shaped by the character of people, their religious, national or some other commitments (for instance, scientific or artistic traditions). In this part of the paper the author briefly argues for the compatibility of historical traditions and fundamental political rights of citizens.

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