Dao Muhammedov

Author(s): Ben-Dor Benite Zvi / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2007

A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China This book documents an Islamic-Confucian school of scholarskip that flourished, mostly in the Yangzi delta, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously unstudied materials, it reconstructs the network of Muslim scholars responsible for the creation and circulation of a large corpus of Chinese Islamic written material – the so-called Han Kitab. Against the backdrop of the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty, The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China shows how the creation of this corpus, and of the scholarly network that supported it, arose in a context of intense dialogue between Muslim scholars, their Confucian social contex, and China’s imperial rulers. Overturning the idea that participation in Confucian culture necessita­ted the obliteration of all other identities, this book offers insight into the world of a group of scholars who felt that their study of the Islamic classics constituted a rightful “school” within the Confucian intellectual landscape. These men were not the first Muslims to master the Chinese Classics. But they were the first to express themselves specifically as Chinese Muslims and to generate foundation myths that made sense of their place both within Islam and within Chinese culture. This book traces the process by which they did so, and adds to the growing body of historiography on late imperial China that attempts to move beyond the dichotomizing paradigm of “sinification”.

Predrag Finci: Priroda umjetnosti

Author(s): Sulejman Bosto / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2007

Dva sveska o filozofiji Immanuela Kanta

Author(s): Nevad Kahteran / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2007

Jean-Luc Nancy: Kako opet do Zajednice?

Author(s): Marijan Krivak / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2007

This text analyses the specific Jean/Luc Nancy’s understanding of community, the singular and plural Being and the question of “mondialization”. A small coda added is his note concerning the important subject of Biopo­litics (and bioethics!). Nancy’s attempt at establishing a community is the philosophical construction of an open-ended theoretical, but also of a practical value. Similarly, supporting the singular-plural Being, it is a sign of the attempt of philosophical constitution of a different world, which would be beyond the terror of capital and neo-liberal destruction of the living-world (Lebenswelt) as well as interconnected in relation of Being-together (co-existential analytics). Namely, taking “selfhood” as that Being-constituent, as the foundation of sense/meaning, Nancy want to transform Heidegger’s existential analysis of Here-Being (Dasein) from Sein und Zeit into an all encompassing co-existential analytics. After all, the main question of his efforts is: how to regain community?

Poststrukturalizam i povlačenje političkog

Author(s): Milorad Belančić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2007

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.

Upotreba simbola i korištenje mita

Author(s): Senadin Musabegović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2007

The break-up of the former Yugoslavia could be read through the political use of symbols. In the former Yugoslavia, Communist symbols drew their inspiration from the images of war. The nationalist symbols used in the destruction of the Communist order were also fed by war fantasies. This raises a very topical question: how is it that the symbol of a powerful and rigid totalitarian body created a new sense of society and the future. It is my intention in this essay to deal with the symbolic representation of the body during the organized ritual excavation of the pits that formed the mass graves of Serb victims killed during World War II. What particularly interests me is how these rituals were used, following the experience of Communism and “brotherhood and unity,” to legitimize a certain war propaganda in which the national collective coalesced through an eruption of violence.

Povratak religije i de-sekularizacija svijeta?

Author(s): Luka Markešić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2007

Today religion is a dominant topic not only in discussion held by religious communities, theologians, and philosophers, but also by scholars and politicians of all sorts, be they believers or atheists. We are now witnessing a peculiar rebirth of religion and desecularisation of politics. At the same time, it is evident that the crisis which has affected the European Christianity is much more than a crisis of the Church. According to catholic theologian Johann Baptist Metz, it is a crisis of faith in the God and Jesus Christ.

Jean-Luc Nancy: pogled na četiri ogleda

Author(s): Tonči Velentić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2007

Kritičko preispitivanje

Author(s): Abdulah Šarčević / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2007

A critical re-examination and escape from the hypnotic persistence of political and national narcissism. Here in an Obsolescent Land it is the ever-present limits of the intellect, of the true, within the context and outlook of the experience, actions and sensitivity of Ivo Komšić. The work was composed at a time of horror, of Nazi/context. It bears witness in distinctive manner by simply citing facts, which belong to the language of shame and pain in which people disagree. It is a way of dispelling the spectre of Nazism, of silencing the cries of hatred, of ideology, and of affirming the communicative process of the transitional intellect beyond the fatality of Cain’s city, built as it is on carnage. This is what Ivo Komšić achieves in his literary thought; he manages to give unambiguous expression to the destructive power of conquest and genocide, to the mystery of love and creation, wherein lies only the depths of “human suffering” that belongs, sad to say, to all of time. Modern man is finding a way of breaking away from the frenetic quest for identity, of stripping identity – principally, national identity, which is multidimensio­nal (language, religion, history, values and morality) – of its self-deception, of the danger that gets to us under the aegis of fear and helplessness. Key words: limits of the intellect, language of shame, transitional intellect, frenetic quest for identity, language, religion, history, citing facts

Pravo Terora

Author(s): Gil Anidjar / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2007

If it remains true that the enemy is not one, and if the two enemies are still enemies of humankind, the solution (to the problems, presumably, of humankind) places them in a different hierarchy of responsibility, marking them with a different label of urgency. The tyrant, at any rate, is the worst enemy because he undermines order in a way that remains independent of the pirate. Moreover, the latter may even hold the key to a future order. If it is possible to consider the lines of forces linking the pirate to the partisan (and to the terrorist), it should become obvious that the theory of two enemies serves, in Schmitt’s rendering, as a prolegomena to a theory of the partisan. This is an attempt to linger in the vicinity of this hypothesis.

Trideset godina Dijaloga

Author(s): Arif Tanović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2007

Judaizam i sekularizacija: Hannah Arendt i židovska tradicija

Author(s): Martine Leibovici / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2007

For Hannah Arendt, as for F. Rosenzweig and E. Levinas, the question of the limits and openness of the political is crucial. The fact is, though, that in H. Arendt’s view, “God’s metaphysical place remains vacant,” and the fact that the authority of traditions has been lost for ever, that our world is without protection, that secularization is irrevocable, all are equally important. One could thus phrase her question as follows: what about alterity, which prevents the political from becoming self-centred, once it is no longer protected by the relationship with a higher reality? Can alterity be something apart in relation to that which is higher without descending into the most banal pluralism?

(De)konstruiranje sudbonosnih krugova života (na primjeru romana Ho-ruk Hasana Kikića)

Author(s): Lejla Žujo-Marić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 07/2012

This work introduces a gyre as a recurring element in a novel Ho-ruk by Hasan Kikić. This motif has metaphorical meaning in the novel. Through its repetition the motif of the gyre produces other aspects of the novel such as theme or mood. The motif of the gyre is seen through the postmodern concept of (de)construction. Also, this literary element, symbolizes a product of different litetary movements such as Modernism, Naturalism or Social Realism.

BOGDANČIĆI-LJUBIŠIĆI-MEDVJEDOVIĆI, JEDNA SREDNJOVJEKOVNA VLASTELINSKA PORODICA

Author(s): Salih Jalimam / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 07/2012

The second half of XIV and XV almost full life in the wider area of Trebinje region, Dubrovnik, based on available historical sources, the material part of the monument and the oral tradition was marked by the action of aristocratic families Bogdančići-Ljubišići-Medvjedovići. Some of them have become very successful and influential professionals, have participated in numerous commercial and diplomatic activities. Longer or shorter ones stood out like Ljubiša Bogdančić wide contacts with the Republic of Dubrovnik, with whom he held trade, business and diplomatic contacts. Life in the wider area of the medieval castle owner Trebinje parish family Bogdančići-Ljubišići-Medvjedovići in broader historical framework is present in these lateral lines throughout the fifteenth life. Track the fate of the events and a number of historical sources indicate the presence of their medieval. With the political collapse of the medieval United States reduce the number of historical data and thus the interest in the aristocratic family Bogdančići-Ljubišići-Medvjedovići, which does not necessarily mean that their presence and thereby cease.

JEZIK MODERNE ANIMIRANE AMERIČKE TV-KOMEDIJE

Author(s): Adi Fejzić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 07/2012

Animated comedy as a form of pop-culture has been reserved exclusively for children for a long time, and, as such, adjusted to their level, both in content and TV airing. We should stress that every animated program is not necessarily comical, that is, understood as a form of comedy. That is why any children's program could not have been considered as adult. Finally, there is an entire culture of "adult cartoons", which deals with sexual topics, as in porn movies or underground art. This paper aims to show how the language of modern animated American TV comedy has undergone changes in relation to the language of the respective genre in its very beginnings.

IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF SYNTACTIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN MEDIA DISCOURSE

Author(s): Marijana Sivrić / Language(s): English Issue: 07/2012

The paper deals with the analysis of syntactic transformations – passivization and nominalization regarding their ideological use. Within the ideological discourse analysis, we want to show how syntactic transformations can be used for manipulative purposes. First of all, we describe the changes within sentences through their transformation from deep into surface structure, e.g. the ellipsis of agent, claiming that sentences do not keep the same meaning in their deep and surface structure. Image schemas conditioned by different perspectives of the given situation enable such manipulations and can possibly explain the ideological use of syntactic transformations.

RETORIČKI ELEMENTI U IZJAVAMA GLASNOGOVORNIKA

Author(s): Sanela Kuko / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 07/2012

Rhetoric is the practical implementation of the rules of beautiful speech, i.e the application of the rules of rhetoric in the speech. Modern science essentially relies on the ancient idea by defining that keys to a successful speech are what is being said, who says it and how. Modern rhetoric leaves the orator with the possibility to choose or decide by him/ herself how he/she will structure his speech. Speech is direct, immediate and personal. We analyse speech by using our eyes and ears, gesticulation, timbre, intonation, the speech elements that will also make an impression. There are three components of speech communication used in public relations: speaking, listening and interaction. A good spokesperson should master the skill of speaking, exercise voice and pronunciation. Having regarded that television is a mass media through which the communication is directed at the general public, therefore the audience is heterogeneous, dispersed and orators must pay attention to their linguistic choices but also the non-verbal message that will remain long in the memory of viewers. The way of speech should be clear. Orator is to use words and language that are known to all, or at least to audience he/she is addressing. Discourse is balanced and in line with content when appropriate term is selected. Speaking on television implies three types of communication: non-verbal, paraverbal and verbal communication. Conversation implies two levels of communication: the subject addressed or content and communication ratio, in other words, how we accept the information. Spokespersons are individuals, but in the context of the institution they represent the “assume” certain social roles and act accordingly. The paper analyzes the statements of spokesperson by analysing of verbal and nonverbal communication, public speech, i. e, speech in the context of television appearances and the way of speech on the given examples.

JAVNI DISKURS ALIJE IZETBEGOVIĆA (na primjeru govora Povratak na čelo stranke)

Author(s): Elvira Ćemalović-Dilberović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 07/2012

This paper gives a linguistic overview of the public discourse of Alija Izetbegovic on the example of his (oral) speech entitled Return to Head of the Party. Since public discourse of Alija Izetbegovic has had an important place in the overall Bosnian and Herzegovinian public discourse, and moreover it has been successful in shaping a worldwide public discourse in politics, the paper will explore some important features of Izetbegović’s public discourse in a particular social context. Thus, special attention in this paper will be given to the following questions: which linguistic and nonlinguistic discourse elements are the parts of Izetbegović’s public discourse and what is their contextual function. Interestingly enough, his speeches have not yet been seriously and scientifically analyzed, even though many collected (Izetbegović’s) speeches and interviews have already been published. The aim of the author of this paper is not to find out the reasons why Izetbegović’s speeches have not been analyzed linguistically, sociologically, psychologically, or from some other point of view, but to bring attention to the characteristics of one discourse that significantly shaped an image of identity of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a given time as well as to give prominence to non-linguistic elements that made an impact on his linguistic form.

Prikaz: Azra Verlašević, U branjevini teksta: Bosanskohercegovački ženski roman, Gradačac, 2011

Author(s): Elbisa Ustamujić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 07/2012

Azra Verlašević, U branjevini teksta: Bosanskohercegovački ženski roman, Gradačac, 2011

UTJECAJ PORODICE NA FORMIRANJE LIČNOSTI PROTAGONISTE DJELA LOVAC U ŽITU, AUTORA J. D. SALINGERA

Author(s): Emza Čelebić-Marić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 07/2012

The Catcher in the Rye, written by an American writer Jerome David Salinger, describes in detail maturing of the 17-year old protagonist Holden Caufield, and his relationship with family members, representing the essential role in his life and generally shaping of his character. The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of healthy communication and relationship between parents and children, taken from the protagonist’s point of view.