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HOMO KYBERNETES. From Onto-Genesis to the Posthuman Condition

HOMO KYBERNETES. From Onto-Genesis to the Posthuman Condition

Abstract The author deals with the consideration of what he calls the post-metaphysical complex of the technosphere, for which the ontogenetic framework of classical metaphysics from Aristotle to Hegel is

Socrates’ death as performed by Hannah Arendt

Socrates’ death as performed by Hannah Arendt

In an interview given to Günter Gaus, released on 28 October 1964 in West Germany under the title Zur Person, Hannah Arendt – the smoke curling off the tip of

The End of War

The End of War

Abstract This paper is a general assessment of the reasons for, and proceeding of, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  I argue that the political order established by Vladimir Putin at the

AT THE EDGE OF CHAOS: The end of the revolution, the politics of resistance, and the spectacle of subversion

AT THE EDGE OF CHAOS: The end of the revolution, the politics of resistance, and the spectacle of subversion

No “revolution” is “revolutionary” enough. Martin Heidegger, Die Geschichte des Seyns 1. Mephisto’s problem: So, what if there is nothing left behind? One of the most lucid analyses of the

Messianic Triumph of Ethics?  Emmanuel Lévinas and the aporia in the thinking of the Other

Messianic Triumph of Ethics? Emmanuel Lévinas and the aporia in the thinking of the Other

Abstract There are only three philosophical ideas of “great ethics” nowadays: Aristotle’s idea of distributive justice in a community (polis) is determined by the “natural” limitations and ethnic reducibility of

Persecution and the Art of Thinking

Persecution and the Art of Thinking

Zygmunt Bauman’s books have been read by millions of people in over thirty languages. For this reason alone the biography of this outstanding philosopher and a sociologist deserves attention. An

The Heidegger Case

The Heidegger Case

It is almost unquestionable that throughout history educated classes have always adhered to dictatorial regimes. Plato and his failed ‘mission’ in service of Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse, bequeathed us

What Does It Mean To Be An Alien?  Bernhard Waldenfels And Politics Of Responsive Interculturalism

What Does It Mean To Be An Alien? Bernhard Waldenfels And Politics Of Responsive Interculturalism

ABSTRACT The author analyzes the politics of responsive interculturalism in Bernhard Waldenfels’ thought, starting from the assumption that after Husserl’s phenomenology only two fundamental concepts – body and the Other

Love as a Creative Dynamic Work

Love as a Creative Dynamic Work

I present the concepts of love in the Western history (twin souls, platonism, catholicism, courtly, romantic, psychoanalytic love) and argue that the aforementioned concepts are unrealistic and disatisatifying because they

Europe on the Edge: Revisiting Habermas and Derrida

Europe on the Edge: Revisiting Habermas and Derrida

Europe stands at a precarious moment and today is facing huge economical, political and social crisis. Although the idea of Europe has been widely discussed for centuries, nowadays we are

The Subversive Icon of Pregnancy in Opposition to the Culture of Fear: Visual Practices in a Local Context

The Subversive Icon of Pregnancy in Opposition to the Culture of Fear: Visual Practices in a Local Context

This paper problematizes the subversive icon of pregnancy and offers a linear overview of its various iterations in juxtaposition to the culture of fear, starting with Vlasta Delimar, whose installation

Wish for one‘s own Freedom

Wish for one‘s own Freedom

Against voluntary slavery was Étienne de La Boétie. It is supposed that he was sixteen years old boy/man when he wrote this little discourse. He died when he was thirty-three.

The New Left and Its Discontents

The New Left and Its Discontents

IUC Dubrovnik 2010 In contemporary social and political theory in the last twenty years, there are two currents that are of crucial importance in rethinking modern economic-political and cultural global

Ethics and Metapolitics

Ethics and Metapolitics

IUC Dubrovnik 2009 In today's era of blurred global political constellation and predominant sense of vast political and religious disappointment in most of western societies, the notions of ethics and

The Permanent Condition of War-And-Peace: From the Total Mobilization to the Absolute Construction of the Event

The Permanent Condition of War-And-Peace: From the Total Mobilization to the Absolute Construction of the Event

Abstract: In the present consideration the author tries to explain on three levels a fundamental shift which occurred and changed the dynamics of the binary opposition of war and peace

Overcoming the West?

Overcoming the West?

(The errors of occidentalism) Ideology is older than the world of modernity. Like religion and metaphysics, it is“innate” to man as a member of a social community. Just as paranoid

The Political and the Violent. On Resistances

The Political and the Violent. On Resistances

Politics and the Political This essay explores the political, in particular that which we might call the vanishing of the political. We should first be aware that the terms politics

Mapping the Balkan and escaping to Europe

Mapping the Balkan and escaping to Europe

The questions of where are the actual boundaries of the Balkans actually include many traumatic issues of belonging, identity and imagery and they involve the outwitting of geopolitical theories. In

An-Arché as the Voice of the People: Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Disagreement

An-Arché as the Voice of the People: Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Disagreement

Abstract An-arché in the thinking of politics and aesthetics beyond the tradition of "political philosophy" of Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt in 20. century, or in contact with the ideas