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Natural Goodness and the Political Form of Human Life
No full textEthical Naturalism attempts to explain the objective normativity effective in human practices by reference to the relation between a living individual and the life-form it exhibits. This explanation falls short in the case of human beings (i) - not merely because of their essential rationality, but because the idea of normativity implicit in practice is dependent on the form of normativity’s being made explicit (2). I argue that this explicit form of normativity’s force and claim - the law in general - implies a tension between an explicit norm’s claim to absoluteness and the particularity of the situational case it is applied to. This tension may seem to produce an inherent violence corrupting the very idea of objective normativity inherent in the human form of life (3); in fact, it shows that the human form of life is essentially political. That the human form of life is essentially political does not contradict the idea of objective normativity - provided that this objectivity is not derived from a conception of “natural goodness”, but rather from the actuality of human practice and its principle, justice (4)
Hegel's Logic as the Exposition of God from the End of the World
No full textThe article attempts to reconstruct the logical space within which, at the beginning of Hegel’s Logic, “being”and “nothing” are entitled to emerge and receive their names. In German Idealism, the concept of “being” is linked to the form of a proposition; Fichte grounds a new truth-value on the absolute thesis of the “thetical judgement”. And the articles first thesis claims that Hegel couldn’t have placed “being”at the beginning of this great system, if the ground of its logical space had not been laid out by precisely those shifts of German Idealism that posited the ontological function of the judgement. At the same time, the abstract negation, the absence of a relation and sufficient reason between “being” and “nothing”, reveals a structure of an irreducibly dual beginning. The logical background of this original duality could be constituted by the invention of the “transcendental inter-subjectivity” in German Idealism, manifested, for instance, in Hegel’s life-and-death struggle of two self-consciousnesses. The second thesis therefore suggests that “being” and “nothing” are elements of the logical space, established in concreto in a social situation of (at least) two subjects one of whom poses an affirmative statement and the other negates it abstractly. From here, one could draw out the coordinates of a sphere by the name of “public”whose structure is defined by the invalidation of two basic laws of thought, the law of non-contradiction and the principle of sufficient reason. The article shows how only the statements capable of absorbing negation, of sustaining a co-existence of affirmation and its symmetrical, abstract negation, can climb the ladder of public perceptibility and social impact
"Taking the Human out of Human Rights" Human Rights or Group Rights?
No full textWhat interest me are the reasons why “human” or “human rights” could be important or possibly most important in constituting a group (hence the introduction of the complicated word “group” and “group right(s)” in the subtitle). If I had to justify the existence of the latest debates on nature, justification and universality of human rights, on their distinction from other normative standards, on the philosophy and (legal) foundation of human rights, on “Human Rights without (or with) Foundations” (Raz, Tasioulas, Besson), then I would immediately conclude that this “process of grandiose concretization” of a complete fabrication is far from over. Despite the innumerable pacts and international conventions established after World War II, the slew of obligations to which states have agreed in the last few decades, the establishment of rights to secession or humanitarian intervention it is as if the constitution of classification of basic human rights and their universality is far from over
Institutionalisieren, ursprünglich institutionalisieren
No full textZbornik Fenomenološka ontologija socijalnoga bavi se sveprisutnošću socijalnoga kao problema, te kontroverzama i diferenciranjima koje se javljaju u tom kontekstu: tenzijama između zajednice i društva, javnog i privatnog prostora ili političke sfere i onoga što joj izmiče. Pri tome je predmet diskusije pre svega konkretna mogućnost opažanja pojedinca i grupa u socijalnom prostoru i obostrana ontološka utemeljenost i uslovljenost. Fenomenološki pristup je između ostaloga motivisan i uvidom u to da se relevantni pojmovi za navedena tematska polja ne mogu u dovoljnoj meti tematizovati čisto metodom socijalnih nauka ili empirijskim analizama. Sporazumevanje o strukturama sveta života, kao i njihove praktične i teorijske kategorije, iziskuju stoga fenomenološko razjašnjenje načina na koji „socijalno“ postaje fenomen i fenomenološko određenje onoga što je skriveno u toj sferi pojavnosti
Transformation of gender, sexuality and citizenship in South East Europe
No full textThis collection of essays was conceived gradually and in
many phases, between Scotland and different parts of the
former Yugoslavia, during the course of 2012 and 2013. The
bulk of the work has been carried out within the research
project “The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor
States of the Former Yugoslavia” (CITSEE) at the University of Edinburgh. This ERC-funded project led by Professor Jo Shaw and Dr. Igor Štiks has been established to explore changes in citizenship regimes which occurred after the break-up of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, with special attention being paid to the influences of the EU accession process on the new states of South East Europe. The editors of this special issue – Oliwia Berdak, Chiara Bonfiglioli, Katja Kahlina and Adriana Zaharijević – were members of a cluster of researchers focused on issues of gender and sexuality within the project, which had the aim of investigating transformations in gender and citizenship regimes from a comparative perspective. We wanted to shed light on the different ways in which the categories of gender and sexuality at the same time inform and draw on larger socio-political processes. The processes of democratisation, post-conflict reconstruction, and transformation from socialist to capitalist political economy, which have influenced shifting notions of citizenship in the post-Yugoslav space, were especially under scrutiny
Romanticizing or romantic denial of enlightenment?
No full textU članku se tvrdi da rani romantizam, artikulišući vlastito stanovište, upućuje prosvećenosti jednu „estetičku“ primedbu i da se ta primedba može protegnuti do duboko u dvadeseti vek. Autor rada je, posle Šlegela i njegove škole, pronalazi ne samo u Veberovoj dijagnostici institucionalizovane racionalnosti zapadne civilizacije, te u Dijalektici prosvetiteljstva Horkhajmera i Adorna i kritici ciljno orijentisanog ili instrumentalnog uma savremenosti koja je usledila, već i, na drugačiji način, kod
Fukoa, braće Beme, pa čak i u fi lozofi ji postmoderne i neopragmatizma. Zaključuje se da je svim tim orijentacijama zajednička detekcija manjka samoprosvećenosti prosvetiteljstva, izostanak njegove autoreferentne korekcije, neobračunavanje troškova ogrešenja o ono njegovo „drugo“, što onda bilo nepovratno ili ipak nekako još ispravljivo, potkopava njegov izvorni kritički i emancipatorski program.The article argues that early Romanticism, articulating its own view, addresses to the Enlightenment an “aesthetic” remark which be traced deep into the twentieth century. The author of the work found it, after Schlegel and his school, not only in Weber ‘s diagnosis of institutionalized rationality of Western civilization, and in the Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment and the critique of the goal-oriented or instrumental reason of modernity that followed, but in a different way, also in Foucault, Böhme brothers, and even in postmodern philosophy and neopragmatism. It is concluded that all these orientations share detection of the lack od self-enlightenment of the Enlightenment and, consequently, the lack of its self-referential correction. These unaccounted costs of violations the Enlightenment
committed to its “other”, irreversibly or somehow still recoverable, undermines its original critical and emancipatory program
Un Peacekeeping Missions in the Regions of Ex-Yugoslavia and the Problem of Impartiality of the International Peace Mediation: the Case Study of Peacekeeping Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
No full textAуторка у раду тематизује деловање међународних
мировних мисија ОУН на подручју ex-Jугославије од
почетка деведесетих година протеклог века наовамо.
Oна полази од становишта да је њихов међународноетички
смисао садржан у очувању и унапређењу мира,
oдносно минимализовању могућности обнављања
сукоба који су претходили његовом успостављању.
Приврженост међународног мировног посредовања
том начелу ауторка пропитује на примеру мировног
мисионарства на подручју некадашње југословенске
републике Босне и Херцеговине. Aнализом њего вих карaктеристика она закључује да је заговарајући афирмацију духа уместо слова Дејтона, међународна заједница са САД на челу, вршила темељну ревизију
уместо доследне имплементације његових споразума,
а мировна мисија ОУН у том прегнућу одиграла улогу
кључног и незаобилазног агенса. Kao таква, својим де ловањем на подручју Босне и Херцеговине, она је, сматра
ауторка, пре била у функцији разрешавања кризе
у корист једног њеног, од самог почетка фаворизованог
актера, него у служби њеног доследног и трајног пацификовања, чиме је нарушила један од кључних међународно-етичких
принципа мировног посредовања као таквог – непристрасност, односно неутралност према свим сукобљеним странама, а уместо минимализовања могућности њиховог поновног конфронтирања,
oбeзбeдилa му снажне претпоставке.In her paper the author takes as a theme the activity of
the UN international peacekeeping missions in the regions
of ex-Yugoslavia from the beginning of the nineties in the
past century until now. She starts from the viewpoint that
their international-ethical sense contained in maintenan ce and promotion of peace, i.e. reducing the possibility of
renewing the conflicts which preceded their establishment.
The adherence of the international peace mediation to
that principle is examined by the author on the example
of the engagement of peacekeeping missions in the regions
of the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Relying on a thorough analysis of their characteristics,
she concludes that by advocating the affirmation of
the spirit instead of the letter of Dayton, the international
community led by USA, made thorough revision instead
of consistent implementation of Dayton agreements, while
the UN Peace Mission in that endeavour played the role of
key and unavoidable agent. As such, by its activity on the
territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Mission was, the
author believes, rather in the function of solving the crisis
in favour of one of its parties preferred from the beginning,
than in the service of its consistent and permanent pacification,
by which it disrupted one of the key internationalethical
principles of peace mediation as such – impartiality,
i.e. neutrality in relation to all confronted parties, and
instead of minimalising the possibility of their repeated
confrontation, created strong preconditions for it
Biopolitik und die transzendentale Fragestellung. Über die Bedingungen der Möglichkeit der Macht
No full textTekst predstavlja analizu pre svega Fukoovih razmatranja u pogledu na istorizovanje shvatanja života u okviru nauka o životu i ostalih biopolitičkih praksi. Autor polazi od toga da i Fukoove analize moći implicitno postavljaju pitanje o uslovima mogućnosti, odnosno, o moći kao horizontu omogućavanja. Problem koji se javlja, smatra autor, tiče se dometa ovog implicitnog transcendentalno-filozofskog pristupa u pogledu na adekvatno zahvatanje ljudske povesnosti. Naime, ovde se uviđa da Fuko operiše sa istorijskim kategorijama, kako na nivou objekta tako i na nivou metodoloških refleksija, ali da, takođe implicitno, ostaje veran određenim metafizičkim pretpostavkama o povesnosti i temporalnosti, kao što je, recimo, ne uzimanje u obzir mogućnosti nelinearne vremenitosti
Introduction
No full textAn overview of the contributions to the edited volume with a problem-focused introduction