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K PITANJU O ULOZI LIČNOSTI U ISTORIJI
Foreword and translation from Russian by Veljko Ribar. Published in Yugoslavia by KULTURA in 1959
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Foreword and translation from Russian by Veljko Ribar. Published in Yugoslavia by KULTURA in 1959
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Expanding the horizon of established accounts of Central European art under socialism, this book uncovers the neglected history of artistic engagement with the natural environment in the Eastern Bloc. The turbulent legacy of 1968, which saw the confluence of political upheaval, spread of counterculture, rise of ecological consciousness, and emergence of global conceptual art, provides the setting for Maja Fowkes’s innovative reassessment of the environmental practice of the Central European neo-avant-garde. Focussing on artists and artist groups whose ecological dimension has rarely been considered, including the Pécs Workshop from Hungary, OHO in Slovenia, TOK in Croatia, Rudolf Sikora in Slovakia, and the Czech artist Petr Štembera, The Green Bloc: Neo-avant-garde Art and Ecology under Socialism brings to light an array of distinctive approaches to nature, from attempts to raise environmental awareness among socialist citizens to the exploration of non-anthropocentric positions and the quest for cosmological existence in the midst of red ideology. Embedding artistic production in social, political, and environmental histories of the region, this book reveals the Central European artists’ sophisticated relationship to nature, at the precise moment when ecological crisis was first apprehended on a planetary scale.
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There is no personality without identity. Not only that identity is the most essential characteristic of personality, but every other identity is also based on personal identity. Personal identity is a set of an individual’s significant features. Personal identity requires certain consistency, predictability and uniqueness. Yet it is those three characteristics that are hardly adjustable to political life. Not many politicians are able to carry them and effectuate them. Politicians and politics are more comfortable with collective identities. For them it both a chance and an alibi to compensate the lack of willingness to maintain personal identity in a way in which such an identity requires. It is a form of hiding and losing of ‘I’ into ‘us’. Politicians in that way relieve themselves of individual responsibility, but also the responsibility of the office they hold. Politicians have a great mismatch of professional and political identity, especially having in mind that politicians cannot stick to the logic of profession, nor to rely on consciousness. It is an example how professional identity is used and misused in politics. Political identity is often tested between the change in personality and change of personality. Politicians are often prone to change of personality, but unable for a change in personality. In crisis situations, they are also able to reject personal identity and to scarify it for the interests of a group or organization they belong to. Politicians lose difference between identity and identification, i.e. they are most often prone to quickly adjust to new circumstances and then to identify even with opinions, views or orientations to which they have never previously belonged. In other words, when it comes to identity, politicians are more prone to adjusting than to personal autonomy.
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The 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia in 2016 has directed attention toward the importance of utopianism. Utopian Horizons investigates the possibilities of cooperation between the humanities and the social sciences in the analysis of 20th century and contemporary utopian phenomena. The chapters deal with the major problems of interpreting utopias, the relationship between utopia and ideology, and the problematic issue as to whether utopia necessarily leads to dystopia. Covering such fields as literary studies, political science and the history of ideas, the volume demonstrates that a cooperative approach results in a fuller understanding of the role of fictionality in the social sciences. Besides reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary utopian investigations, Utopian Horizons effectively represents the constructive attitudes of utopian thought, a feature that not only defines late 20th- and 21st-century utopianism, but is one of the primary reasons behind the rising importance of the topic.
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Considerations on the possibility of emancipation from power characteristic for contemporary Western societies. The author focuses on the typical for this concept method of combining reflection on the history to date (genealogical investigations) with reflection on the possible form of release from certain types of dependence, and which emancipation groups would be able to accomplish this task.
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In this paper I discuss the concept of social asymmetry as a relation between the individual and society, but also as an intrinsic characteristic of society. I intend to analyze the relevance of the term to the fields of political science (descriptive, factually committed) and to political philosophy (normative, concerned with the difference between individuals with different values and options, the way in which factuality is regulated by the type of society).The term social asymmetry may be relevant in social ethics, as dependent on factors such as justice, freedom, truth, law, quality of life, etc. The present study highlights two types of social asymmetry: an irreversible one, one of totalitarian societies, and another, a reversible one, inherent in democratic societies.I consider that social asymmetry was at the basis of political upheaval in the communist bloc of the nineties. The balance of any society is ontological, meta-social, centered on the human person. The ontological dimension seen as an existential equilibrium among a multitude of non-quantifiable parameters is the one that sorts the type of society and determines its type of asymmetry.
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A selection of D. Hume’s works presents the achievements and opinions of the Scottish author, mainly in the domain of political philosophy. Despite more than two and half centuries passing since the original publication of these works, the modern reader can find in them ever valid and inspiring deliberations on the freedom of speech and civil liberties, the boundaries of political conflict, political parties and factions or the conditions of obedience to authority. Most of the essays collected in the book – today counted among the classics of the genre – appear in Polish for the first time.
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An unusual work, an important document portraying this scholar and politician in a light hitherto unknown in Poland. From conversations written down by Karel Čapek, a friend of the father of Czechoslovakia and a distinguished writer, we learn not only about the childhood and youth of Masaryk but also about his philosophical and political beliefs, the things that guided him in life and in his work. The first publication of the book in Polish translation.
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The authors propose an interpretation of the aesthetic experience – presented in categories of dispersion and integration – as representative of the more generally understood experience of modernity. They show how one of the fundamental concepts of aesthetics can be used as a key to understanding the transformations of modern and contemporary culture. The authors deal with issues of the genealogy, status and character of the modern experience, they portray numerous aspects of the aesthetic experience, with a focus on highlighting the tension between integration and dispersion. They also present the artistic elements of the aesthetic experience, oscillating between the two categories.
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Antinomies of Modernity brings seven stand-alone studies on some important issues of the philosophy and ethics of modernity. Its focus is on Europe and on the issues of national and state sovereignty, i.e., how peaceful coexistence of states can be established and maintained. These are topics that are decisive for the theoretical and practical resolution of the crisis of the modernity.
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The text offers a review of Prof. Miglena Nikolchina's monumental study "God with Machine: Subtracting the Human", dedicated to fundamental theoretical conceptualizations around anthropological issues. The review dwells in particular on the central conceptual paradox outlined in Prof. Nikolchina's book, namely the double determination of man as "a being who wants to be human" and “being who does not want to be human”
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Svojevremeno je Žan Žak Ruso, začuđen mnogim prazninama, dilemama i nedorečenostima u političkoj misli svog vremena, zapisao: „Teško mogu da shvatim kako to da u jednom vijeku u kome je svima tobože toliko stalo do lijepih znanja, ne mogu da se nađu dva složna čovjeka, oba bogata, jedan novcem, drugi duhom, pa da jedan žrtvuje dvadeset hiljada srebrnjaka, a drugi deset godina života radi jednog slavodobitnog putovanja oko svijeta, da bi proučili, ne uvijek samo kamenje i biljke, nego jednom već i čovjeka i njegova ponašanja, dvojica kojima bi, poslije toliko vjekova posvećenih premjeravanju i posmatranju doma, palo najzad na pamet da upoznaju njegove stanovnike“. Nešto slično, s jednako dobrim razlozima, mogao bi da kaže i bilo koji savremeni analitičar misaonih dometa u oblasti politike i političkog. On bi, naime, isto kao i Ruso, mogao da primijeti da u mnogim slojevima naučne i teorijske misli okrenute politici i političkom i dalje ima puno neapsolviranih pitanja, kao što i u sferi emocionalnog, gdje se vrši konverzija saznajnih “imputa” u aksiološkoetičke racionalizacije i sudove, ima kojekakvih primjesa transcendentalnog, dvosmislenog ili tek prepoznatog kao problem. Ono u čimu se ovaj potonji vjerovatno ne bi saglasio sa Rusoom, bila bi ocjena da se osnovni razlog za „nedovoljnu upoznatost stanovnika svijeta sa sobom“, kad je u pitanju politička naučna i teorijska misao, ne nalazi toliko u nedovoljnom broju bogatih novcem i obdarenih umom koji bi zdušno prionuli tom poslu, koliko u tome da se radi o zahtjevu koji, sve i kad bi se htjelo, nije moguće jednokratno ostvariti.
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U svom djelu Čovjek i društvo, koje je prvi put objavljeno 1963. godine, Džon Plamenac je, opisujuci marksisticku društvenu teoriju, zapisao: „Marksizam je jedna od najbogatijih i najsugestivnijih društvenih teorija i vrijedna je pažljivog ispitivanja. Ona je uzbudljiva na dva načina: ona duboko pokrece radikala, koji je nezadovoljan postojećim svijetom i koji traga za filozofijom koja ce ga voditi u njegovom nastojanju da ga promijeni, i podstiče radoznalost i maštu istraživaca ciji predmet nije da promijeni društvo, ili da spriječi njegovu promjenu, nego da uveća naše znanje o njemu“. Ova Plamenceva zapažanja o vrijednosti i uticajima marksisticke društvene teorije u punoj mjeri važe za Filipa Kovačevića, ciji su tekstovi, pripremani za ciklus predavanja posvećen teoriji Herberta Markuzea, objavljeni u ovoj publikaciji Centra za građansko obrazovanje (CGO). Idejna linija koja vezuje dvojicu autora, Filipa Kovačevića i Herberta Markuzea, je tradicija neomarksizma. Ona je zaronjena u idejne svijetove Zigmunda Frojda, sisteme Kanta i Hegela, Rajha i drugih. Ali je cilj jasan, odnosi se na razmatranje mogućnosti promjene i prevazilaženja statusa quo u društvima savremenog kapitalizma.
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The texts constituting the "Jubilee Book" are a tribute to Professor Barbara Markiewicz and her scientific achievements. The book opens with the interview with Professor Władysław Stróżewski – a teacher and intellectual mentor to Professor Barbara Markiewicz. The subsequent parts of the publication concentrate on reflections on liberal thought, Polish philosophy, the relations between philosophy, education and upbringing as well as theoretical framework and practical consequences of philosophical inquiry, especially in political philosophy.
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A large number of oral stories about Prince Miloš Obrenović (1780–1860) are preserved as an integral part of wider biographical, autobiographical, memoir, diary, historiographical, epistolary, travel and documentary sources. By identifying and separating anecdotes, historical legends, life stories and proverbs from the tissues of more elaborate narrative units, an extensive corpus is formed in which, through a series of narratives and variants, the narrated biography of Prince Miloš develops in the spheres of his military, political, diplomatic, social and private life. Given the fact that Prince Miloš appears as a very attractive and stimulating person for narrative shaping, the examples of his special administrative and judicial practice, which are characterized by elements of humorous, unusual, witty, but also arbitrary, unscrupulous and cruel treatment emerge as particularly interesting topics. He becomes a type to which are connected themes and motifs well known not only in the domestic tradition but also in the international narrative fund.
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This monograph is devoted to the problem of mourning in the writings of Jacques Derrida and is based on a premise that mourning offers a unique and crucial access to the political and ethical dimension of his thought. Moreover, it conditions any ethics and politics whatsoever. In order to show the legitimacy of this thesis, the monograph reconstructs the way of thought originating in Derrida's early texts and exposes the source contamination of life by death, and consequently leads to deconstruction of metaphysical assumptions regarding the concept of singular and communal life in ethical and political discourses. The issue of mourning, therefore, provokes a more in-depth thinking about politics and ethics, which is based on a call for radical and unlimited responsibility for the mortal and singular other, and at the same time inspires to change not only the language of politics determined by ontotheology but also the political praxis itself. Therefore, the monograph unveils the necessary relationship between the thought of mourning and key political concepts (such as justice, hospitality, democracy, autoimmunity), the hyperbolic nature of which Derrida affirms in his writings.
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Autor podnosi w sposób pionierski problematykę emocji w perspektywie mechanizmów życia politycznego. Bogata literatura, różnorodna problematyka, żywy i klarowny język sprawiają, że książka z pewnością spotka się z żywym zainteresowaniem czytelników i reakcją zwłaszcza środowisk akademickich. Widzialność zawiści... Pierzchalskiego to książka odważna, nowoczesna i jednocześnie książka o widzialności. Można tylko pogratulować Autorowi i życzyć, aby Widzialna zawiść... była bardzo dobrze widzialna. prof. Jerzy Kochan Pierzchalski, meandrując po historii myśli politycznej, filozofii i psychologii prowadzi czytelnika przez niemal wszystkie tropy refleksji, w której pojawiał się namysł nad socjo-kulturową (kolektywną, międzypokoleniową) naturą emocji kształtujących procesy indywidualnej percepcji obiektów i zjawisk politycznych. Może imponować swoboda, z jaką autor miksuje spostrzeżenia klasyków antyku, Kartezjusza, tradycji marksowskiej, kulturowego nurtu socjologii wiedzy z ustaleniami przedstawicieli współczesnej kognitywistyki i neuronauki. prof. Lech Szczegóła Filip Pierzchalski – doktor habilitowany, politolog pracujący w Katedrze Teorii Polityki i Myśli Politycznej Wydziału Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Autor licznych artykułów naukowych poświęconych teoretycznym wyzwaniom we współczesnej nauce o polityce, kategorii podmiotowości politycznej, socjotechnice politycznej oraz zjawisku przywództwa politycznego. Autor monografii: Podmiotowość polityczna w perspektywie indywidualistycznej i holistycznej (2009); Morfogeneza przywództwa politycznego. Pomiędzy strukturą a podmiotowością sprawczą (2013); Political Leadership: Structure – Consciousness – Emotions (2023).
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This review presents Martin Marinos's Free to Hate: How Media Liberalization Enabled Right-Wing Populism in Post-1989 Bulgaria (University of Illinois Press, 2023). Marinos's in-depth analysis reveals the close link between the media and the rise of right-wing populism in post-socialist Bulgaria. Marinos focuses on the connections between phenomena such as neoliberalism, racism, populism, and media commercialization.
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44 scientists participated in the International Scientific Conference dedicated to Prof. Ivaylo Dichev, on the topic: Pop-culture, Pop-politics: The Digital Turn. Interdisciplinary Analyses Of The Intersectionality Between Media, Cultures And Politics. The conference concludes the research project "Pop-culture, pop-politics: The digital turn. Interdisciplinary analyses of the intersection between media, cultures and politics" of the Sofia University. The conference was implemented with the help of the Cultural Studies Network, the journal "Seminar_BG", the Department of "Radio and Television" of the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Department of "History and Theory of Culture" at the Faculty of Philosophy, together with scientists from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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