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Feeling Vulnerable: Interpersonal Relatedness and Situatedness
No full textMy focus in this text is not the general notion of vulnerability (although it is important), but how one feels vulnerable. (1) In the first part, I will sketch the structure of such an emotional experience. (2) Then, I will try to explain why the recognition of another’s vulnerability is important in regard to emotional agency, emphasizing the difference between this kind of recognition and similar experience of empathy and social recognition. (3) In the third section, I will concentrate on the question of intersubjectivity of (mutual) recognition. However, I think that there is an inherent normative gap between the ideal of universal intersubjective mutual recognition with respect to emotional agency and the fact that in the social realm this recognition rests on culturally and socially dependent criteria of adequacy for such emotional experience. Moreover, the mentioned gap could put some persons in a situation (emotional exclusion) in which they don’t have a ‘right’ to feel vulnerable in their own way. (4) In the conclusion, I try to offer some practical possibilities to bridge this gap through emotion-oriented environmental structures
Teorija uhvaćena u dijalektiku: neke refleksije o Kapitalizmu, otuđenju i kritici Asgera Serensena
No full textThis paper presents three interconnected examinations of Asger Sørensen’s arguments in Capitalism, Alienation and Critique, which thematize Sørensen’s overarching understanding of the relationship between theory and practice: his general methodological perspective on critical theory, its distinctive epistemology and its anchoring in the empirical world. The paper authors each try to push Sørensen on these crucial points by considering how Sørensen’s variant of critical theory actually operates, scrutinizing in more detail the particular relationship between the ‘experience of injustice’, which for Sørensen constitutes the empirical foothold for critical theory, and the theoretical diagnosis of social reality which the critical theorist should formulate against the backdrop of this experience.Ovaj rad predstavlja tri povezana ispitivanja argumentacije Asgera Serensena u Kapitalizmu,
otuđenju i kritici, koja tematizuju Serensenovo generalno razumevanje odnosa teorije i prak se, drugim rečima njegovu metodološku perspektivu u pogledu kritičke teorije, njene speci fične epistemologije i njene ukorenjenosti u empirijskom svetu. Marjan Ivković, Srđan Pro danović i Milan Urošević nastoje da problematizuju Serensenovo stanovište razmatrajući
način na koji Serensenova kritička teorija zapravo funkcioniše, analizirajući detaljnije odnos
između ,iskustva nepravdeʻ, koje za Serensena predstavlja empirijsko uporište kritičke teo rije, i teorijske dijagnoze društvene stvarnosti koju kritički teoretičar formuliše na temelju
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Dijalektika kao imanentna kritika. Ili, dijalektika kao ontologija i epistemologija s praktičnom intencijom
No full textThis response to Asger Sørensen’s paper From Ontology to Epistemology: Tong, Mao and Hegel is made on the basis of a reflection on the author’s intellectual development with special reference to the idea of ‘dialectics’. This development is mainly composed of three periods, in which the author formed his strong antipathy toward dialectics as a mere tool of power (in the 1970s), learnt to understand the importance of ‘dialogical logic’ in providing conceptual tools for human knowledge of a type of reality which is both objective and subjective – human practices (in the 1980s) – and attempted to understand the ‘dialectics of rationalization’ by integrating ‘dialectics’ in the Western tradition of Critical Theory with the Chinese tradition of ‘dialectics’ systematically interpreted by Feng Qi (1915-1995) since the 1990s.Ovaj odgovor na poglavlje Asgera Serensena Od ontologije do epistemologije: Tong, Mao i Hegel
je formulisan na temelju refleksije o autorovom intelektualnom razvoju sa posebnim osvrtom
na ideju ,dijalektikeʻ. Ovaj razvoj se sastoji iz tri perioda, u kojima je autor razvio jaku antipatiju
prema dijalektici kao jednostavnoj alatki moći (u 1970-im), i razumeo značaj ,dijaloške logikeʻ
u pružanju pojmovnih oruđa za ljudsko spoznavanje one vrste realnosti koja je istovremeno
objektivna i subjetivan – ljudskih praksi (u 1980-im) – i pokušao da razume ,dijalektiku racio nalizacijeʻ integrišući ,dijalektikuʻ iz zapadne tradicije kritičke teorije sa kineskom tradicijom
,dijalektikeʻ sistematski interpretiranom u delima Feng Ćija (1915-1995) u 1990-im
O smrtonosnom ćutanju
No full textThe paper focuses on violence, claiming that it is not action, but silence and inaction that become “murderous”, given that we are forced into a permanent and impossible process of choosing between responsibility for the other and the possibility of responding to a call for help. Still, this position is not final and the author offers certain alternative strategies, such as rebellion, goodness, critique and shame.Predavanje se fokusira na nasilje i tvrdi da nije delovanje već ćutnja i nečinjenje ono što po staje ,smrtonosnoʻ, s obzirom na to da smo prisiljeni na trajni i nemogući proces odlučivanja
između odgovornosti za drugoga i mogućnosti odgovaranja na bilo koji poziv u pomoć. Ipak,
takva vrsta prihvatanja nije konačna i autor nudi određene alternativne strategije: pobunu,
dobrotu, kritiku i sram
Re-interpreting Tradition: Maximus the Confessor on Creation in Ambigua ad Ioannem
No full textMaximus the Confessor’s Ambigua ad Ioannem represents a composition of 66 elucidations on ambiguous passages from the works of Gregory Nazianzen. The collection was written between 628 and 630 and dedicated to a certain John, whose identity is still under scholarly scrutiny. Although Ambigua, as a collection of various scholia, is mainly an exegetical work it may be to some extent subsumed under the popular Byzantine literary genre of erotapokriseis or question-and-answer literature, since the recipient of the work had selected different passages from Gregory and asked Maximus to ponder over their meaning. One of Maximus’ intentions in writing this work is the dismissal of Gregory’s alleged Origenistic or heterodox leaning (as in Ambiguum 7) and the justification of Gregory’s virtual infallibility and of his designation the ‘Theologian’ (as in Ambiguum 21). Moreover, Maximus displays his immense capacity to synthesize divergent theological traditions and to present them as parts of one coherent theological system
Autonomy or Independence: Minority Arrangements for Vojvodina Hungarians and Kosovo Albanians in Serbia during and after the Yugoslav Period
No full textThe article offers a comparative analysis of minority politics and arrangements for the autonomy of Hungarians in Vojvodina and Albanians in Kosovo, which were Serbian territories and provinces during much of the 20th century. It discusses the reasons why minority struggles led to violence and independence in the Albanian case, while being peacefully accommodated within society, and even providing internal cohesion and good neighbourly relations, in the Hungarian case. The analysis follows both minorities from their post-1918 and post-1945 status in the two respective Yugoslavias, as well as in modern-day post-1990 Serbia. After providing a comparison of the political status of the two national communities, this comparative research argues against simplistic notions that view ethnic relations and conflicts in the Balkans as the result of centuries-old hatred and historically deeply rooted hostilities, and instead advocates a more nuanced perspective that is sensitive to subtleties, internal interrelations and mutual dynamics in tackling majority/minority issues
