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The Trajectories of the Concept of Life in Judith Butler's Tthought
No full textIn this paper we propose to look into different meanings of livability and life in Judith
butler’s thought. Although crucial for her early work (she points to it in her 1999 Introduction to
Gender Trouble), the concept of livability as such emerges more often and in a more pronounced
manner in her later books (from Undoing Gender and Precarious life to Towards a
Performative Theory of Assembly). Our main question is: what is the thread that runs through
different concepts of life in butler’s work? What are the links between abject, unlivable, precarious,
ungrievable, jettisoned and dispossessed life? this raises further questions the question of
gradation of livability (which life matters and ‘how much’, and how to think this quantifiability
of something so unquantifiable); and the question of universality (all lives matter). these
questions obviously need to take into account the terms under which a life is qualified and counted
as livable. such conditions encompass the norms that organize the possibility of recognition and
the orders of recognizability and differential allocation of humanness. they encompass the
ways in which we are constituted politically, but also in which this ‘we’ is social and bodily. the
question of livable life is thus very much entangled with the issue of (individual) agency, but
also with what we as agents require “in order to maintain and reproduce the conditions of (our)
own livability” (Undoing Gender 2004: 39)
The Strange Case of Yugoslav Feminism: Feminism and Socialism in ‘the East’
No full textThe text counters the prevailing idea that there was no feminism in the socialist Eastern bloc, carefully presenting a peculiar case of Yugoslav feminism which grew out of socialist political and cultural framework. Yugoslavia was the country where the organization of the singular feminist event in the Eastern world, the conference “Comrade Woman – The New Approach?” (1978), took place. The text traces the ideas on emancipation and liberation which appeared in Yugoslav scientific and literary journals, immediately after the “Comrade Woman” and until the late 1980s,
before the proclaimed fall of the Iron Curtain. The written material is grouped into three sections, according to how the so called woman’s question was elaborated. By re-reading this material, the text examines if feminism was legitimized within the dominant socialist discourse, or whether it was purely translated as something externally Western. The aim of the text is to describe how scholars and activists portrayed emancipation and liberation at that very time: to see if they negotiated or failed to negotiate Western definitions and Eastern realities. In that sense, given material is not used to simply reinforce or refute the claim that feminism was an imported Western (i.e. capitalist) product that had no place interfering with the development.
of socialism. It also urges us to re-consider the common knowledges we have, in
order to see how they become situated as commo
Books and Rifles: Political Activity of Yugoslav Communist Students in Prague 1927–1937 (Part II)
No full textThis second part of the article deals with the communist takeover of “Jugoslavija,” the umbrella organization of Yugoslav students in Prague, in 1935. Following their ultimate victory over the monarchists, they continued their agitation in the student dormitory, drawing in large numbers of new communist organizers and sympathizers. Soon after, however, they departed for Spain to fight in the Civil War, after which their organization effectively ceased to exist. Those who survived World War II went on to become the political elite of the new socialist state. Their subsequent writings reveal the impact of their activity in Prague on their later political and intellectual development. They show that, even though the communist students rarely questioned the tenets of Stalinism before 1948, the experience of working in a pluralist left-wing environment, as well as within an internationalist and pan-Yugoslav framework, had been an influence on their postwar efforts aimed at reforming socialism and creating a system different than the one centered in Moscow
The Psychic Life of Freedom : Social Pathology and its Symptoms
No full textThis paper discusses the elationship between Axel Honneth’s intersubjective theory of recognition and his political theory of democratic ethical life by addressing the potentials and difficulties attached to the notion of social pathology. Taking into account the diverse uses of this concept throughout Honneth’s oeuvre, it focuses initially on two of its formulations: first, the more recent discussions presented in “The Diseases of Society”, some of which can be read in continuity with arguments presented in Freedom’s Right; second, an implicit conception of social pathology that can be found in Struggle for Recognition. These formulations involve contrastingly different premises with regard to phenomenological, methodological, social-ontological and etiological matters. I argue that such differences can be better grasped if one bears in mind two distinctive ways of understanding the fundamental intuition at the basis of the notion of social pathology: either as an analogy or as a homology. By disclosing the actual or potential discrepancies between both conceptions, the aim is to outline the grounds on which they could be brought together within the framework of a comprehensive concept. With this purpose, I then critically examine a third conception of social pathology which was first presented in Suffering from Indeterminacy and later developed, with some restrictions, in Freedom’s Right. Finally, a definition of social pathology is suggested which can bring together the different contributions of each conception while avoiding their pitfalls.U ovom radu se razmatra odnos između intersubjektivne teorije priznanja Aksela
Honeta i njegove političke teorije demokratskog etičkog života, pre svega tako
što se analiziraju potencijali i teškoće vezane za koncepciju socijalne patologije.
Uzimajući u obzir različita značenja koncepcije u Honetovom delu, rad se na po
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četku fokusira na dve formulacije: prvo, na skorašnju raspravu u „Bolestima dru
štva“, koja se delimično može tumačiti i kao nastavak argumentacije iz
Prava slo
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bode
; i drugo, na implicitnu koncepciju socijalne patologije koja se može pronaći
u
Borbi za priznanje
. Ove dve formulacije se u potpunosti razlikuju u pogledu
svojih fenomenoloških, metodoloških, socijalno-ontoloških I etioloških premisa.
Smatram da te razlike mogu bolje da se razumeju ako imamo u vidu dva različita
shvatanja fundamentalne intuicije koja leži u osnovi pojma socijalne patologije:
razumevanje u formi analogije odnosno homologije. Kroz eksplikaciju nekih od
realnih ili potencijalnih diskrepancija između ove dve koncepcije, cilj rada je da
se ponudi jedna preliminarna osnova za povezivanje ove dve varijante u okviru
jedne sveobuhvatne koncepcije pojma socijalne patologije. U svetlu svega na
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vedenog, rad na kraju kritički razmatra treću koncepciju koja je predstavljena u
Patnji neodređenosti
i kasnije razvijena, uz određena ograničenja, u
Pravu slobode
.
Konačno, predložena je jedna definicija socijalne patologije koja može da spoji
različite doprinose svake koncepcije, ujedno izbegavajući njihove zamke
How to Be Together beyond Corporations and Firms? Hegel at the “End of Capitalism”
No full textThe text examines different assumptions of Hegel’s understanding of the corporation across various versions of his Lectures of the Philosophy of Right, given recent contemporary reflections on “the end of capitalism.” My intention is to take Hegel’s thematization of the poor and poverty, as well as the significance Hegel ascribes to common work and the constitution of a working group as the foundation of civil society, and formulate these as real conditions of a potential reconstruction of the corporative model and new common action
„’Nosostros’ que habitamos: comó se convie en la cuidad?“
No full textIn the paper I analyze Heidegger’s important text on dwelling, along with several
fragments from various philosophers specifically inspired by this text, in an attempt to
show that dwelling is not treated as the communal life of group of people in a given time
or place. Dwelling is individual, does not assume life with others, nor indeed counts
on there being conversation or communication. My intention is to uncover forms of
communal life and joint responsibility in the city –a new philosophy of care for the
community
„Субјект носталгии [Subjekt nostalgije]“
No full textВ тексте, за единичностью которого скрываются два автора, мы иссле-
дуем вариативные значения концепта «ностальгия», впервые тематизированного швейцар-
ским доктором Йоганном Хофером в своей докторской работе «Ностальгия, или тоска по
Родине», защищённой 22 июня 1688 года. Наша цель состоит в том, чтобы показать «воен-
ный парадокс» этого утверждения, так как во время войны, когда люди защищают свои
дома, покидая их, ностальгия, сохраняемая солдатом, в определённом смысле приостанавли-
вает войну. Однако существование своего дома и желание вернуться («Я хочу домой), кото-
рое отменяет войну, ей же способствует, поскольку дом есть то, что защищается до по-
следнег
