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Kao πto je Arendt istaknula, identitet ostaje samoj osobi skriven, poput daimona u grËkoj religiji koji Ëitav aeivot prati Ëovjeka, uvijek ga motreÊi straga, preko njegova ramena, vidljiv samo drugima. Prema Nancyjevu tumaËenju Heideggera, egzistent (Ëovjek ili tubitak) je uvijek veÊ s-drugima, uvijek veÊ u zajednici. Djelovanje i govor su, objaπnj...
The concept of crisis is, as Reinhart Koselleck explains, the fundamental mode of historical interpretation and an expression of the new, modern, sense of time. It involves a decision that is unique and final. There are four possible meanings according to Koselleck: crisis as a decisive point at which action is required, crisis as a point after whi...
By adopting and using totalitarian elements, such as anonymity and collectivism, Laibach has established a starting point for the examination of systems of power. In this way, according to Ian Parker, the collective rejected the idea of “dissidence which masquerades as a personal free space in which the individual imagines that they would be able t...
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the dispossession of the self in relation to avant-garde literary projects (and manifestoes). Through an act of self-foundation, manifestoes demand to be regarded in view of their ability to change the world and not by their rhetorical or literary merits. Manifestoes bring into the open what has been hither...
When Giorgio Agamben in his La comunità che viene considered the possibility of politics built on different foundations, politics of “whatever singularity” based on the rejection of “all identity and every condition of belonging,” he praised the lucid reaction of Chinese authorities to the 1989 demonstrations for correctly identifying the danger of...
According to Arendt, totalitarianism differs from other forms of political oppression (despotism, dictatorship, tyranny). It is not an extreme version of something previously known; rather, it establishes new political institutions, destroys existing traditions (social, legal, political), and transforms classes into masses. This transformation enge...
As Blanchot and Nancy remind us, Georges Bataille has repeatedly attempted, in theory and in practice, to fulfil the exigencies of community. Besides thinking about community, he participated in several collective projects, including Surrealism, Contre-Attaque, Acéphale, and the Collège de Sociologie. His experience with these (failed) projects and...
The complexity and heterogeneity of the avant-garde phenomenon necessitates consideration of specificities of various contexts, traditions, and programmes. Moreover, special attention will be dedicated to the appearance and disappearance of each literary/artistic community:Futurism, Technology, and De-/Subjectification: The relation between Italian...
The word community, as an empty signifier, acquires various meanings within different political agendas. One cannot ignore the fact that it often lends itself easily to banal political rhetoric, from the right as well as from the left. The question of its meaning has been addressed several times in the past few decades, for instance, by Jean-Luc Na...
When it comes to the so-called political novels, one usually has in mind famous novels written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell, Arthur Koestler, André Malraux etc. Despite the existence of several introductions and reviews of political fiction (Boyers, Scheingold, Caute), there has been no serious attempt since Irwing Howe's Politics and t...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the place of literary theory in Croatian Literaturwissenschaft, its role in literary studies (especially the study of Croatian literature), its contribution to the introduction of new research topics, as well as its encouragement of methodological innovations and critical self-reflection. Focusing on the disc...
Thanks to the work of Pascale Casanova, Franco Moretti, David Damrosch and many others, over the past two decades, the concept of world literature has once again become the subject of thorough examination within the field of literary studies, especially in relation to cosmopolitanism and globalization. When it comes to the study of individual natio...
Polazeći od romana Daše Drndić Sonnenschein (objavljena 2007. u Zagrebu, 2011. na engleskom, a 2013. na francuskom pod naslovom Trieste ), ovaj rad otvara nekoliko važnih pitanja koja se tiču književnih svjedočanstava: Kako svjedočiti o događajima koje nismo proživjeli osobno? Kakva je uloga književnosti u razdoblju svjedočenja? Razmatranjem pripov...
In her book The Culture of Disaster, Marie-Hélène Huet approaches disaster not as a fundamental rupture but as the premise of modern thought. She argues that the state of emergency that characterizes current Western culture has its origins in “a pervasive anxiety about catastrophic events” that gathered force in the eighteenth century. It has its o...
Giorgio Agamben in his Remnants of Auschwitz proposes that whereas an adequate historical account of the Final Solution is available, we have yet to grasp its ethical and political significance. There is, in his vew, an unbridgeable gap between the traumatic experience of the victims/survivors and our own understanding of its larger implications. A...
The essay has two focuses: Europe and community. In his study Europe or the Infinite Task Rodolphe Gasché claims that a vigorous analysis of the concept of Europe may contribute to a better understanding of Europe´s present political crisis. On the other hand, the work of Maurice Blanchot, Giorgio Agamben and especially Jean-Luc Nancy and Roberto E...
Uvodni tekst u tematski broj "Književnost, politika i političko" je svojevrstan pokušaj da se u razmatranje političke dimenzije književnosti u obzir uzme razlika između politike (književnosti) i političkog (u književnosti).
For over thirty years, Dominick LaCapra has continued to practice a distinctive form of intellectual history. In opposition to advocates of documentary model of historical understanding, as well as Hayden White's poetics of historiography, LaCapra has introduced rhetorical concept of history. In contrast to a monological idea of unified authorial v...
The problem of national identity has recently been the object of an enormous number of studies. Despite their differences, social theorists and historians today seem to agree unanimously on the modern and constructed character of nations. However, it seems that they didn't sufficiently take into account the effects of contemporary questioning of th...
Odsjek za kroatistiku, Filozofski fakultet ‡ Zagreb) U svojoj poznatoj analizi bitka ka smrti (Sein zum Tode) Martin Heidegger smrt definira kao obvezu pojedinca. Iako priznaje da je subitak (Mitsein) esencijalna struktura oblikovanja jastva, smrt pripada iskljuËivo samotnom tubitku (Dasein). Drugim rijeËima, sudbina tubitka je kolektivna, ali on s...
According to Jean-Luc Nancy, the most painful testimony of modern world is the testimony of the dissolution, the dislocation, or the conflagration of community. This failure of communal models (communism, liberalism, Christianity) is linked to their dependence on the notion of human immanence (totality, self-presence, self-consciousness). Thanks to...
Maurice Blanchot has radically transformed the terms in which it is henceforth possible to think the question of literature. He is one of the first writers to have seriously demonstrated the radical philosophical import of literature. In his attempt to rethink literature, Blanchot persistently refers to the concept of death. It is in relation to de...
The problem of national identity has recently been the object of an enormous number of studies. Despite their differences, social theorists and historians today seem to agree unanimously on the modern and constructed character of nations. However, it seems that they didn’t sufficiently take into account the effects of contemporary questioning of th...
