- Type of paper
: Book
Title: Freedom and Plitics
- Authors:
- Posavec, Zvonko
- Editors
- Bariić, Pavo
Publisher: Biblioteka filozofska istraivanja
Year: 1995
Number of pages: 244
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The work comprises four chapters: Crisis of the Plitical,
State and the Political, Social realities, Models of Democracy. In first
chapter the author themetizes on the crisis of political thinking not only
in the works of the classics of Marxism and their followers but aslo in
certain tehnocratic and utopian attempts at the liquidation of the plitical
and its substituion with tehnocratic solutions. The second chapter deals
with the emergence of the modern state. In third chapter, the author is
concerned with the issue of the penetration of the social realities into
the political sphere which poses new agenda for democracy. In the fourth
chapter the author analyses individual models of democracy created by major
authors of modern political thought.
Keywords: Freedom, politics, the political, contitution, state, technocracy, democracy
- Type of paper
: Book
Title: Transcription of Politics
- Authors:
- Rodin, Davor
- Editors
- Uzelac, Maja
Publisher: kolska knjiga
ISBN: 953-0-30708-X
Year: 1995
Number of pages: 364
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The book - "Transcription of Politics" consists of four
chapters. Author analyses three stages of development of the political
theory of the new age, on the basis of classical tects. Representative
scholars of the first stage consider that a systemic, rational
stabilization of a civil society is possible, scholars of a second stage
critically questin a posiblility of rationalisation of a civil ociety from
and existentialist and decisional position, and scholars of the third,
neoscientific stage attempt to employ modern science for rational
resolution of political problems which origginate from political processes
of modern liberal democracy. The pourth chapter is dedicated to discussion
of leading mmethodologies of social science.
Keywords: Politics, development of politics, democracy, social science
- Type of paper
: Paper in book
Title: CARL SCHMITT AND MARTIN HEIDEGGER
- Editors
- Papenfuss, D.
- Pggeler, O.
Publisher: VITTORIO KLOSTERMANN
ISBN: 3-465-02256-4
Year: 1991
Pages: from 247 to 258
Number of references: 13
Language: njemački
Summary: The author examines the spiritual relationship of C.
Schmitt and
M. Heidegger in trying to explain their vulnerability to
national-socialism. He sees a relationship, not just in
political opportunities, but also in their basic viewpoints.
Keywords: Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger, national-socialism
- Type of paper
: Paper in book
Title: LANGUAGE AND SCRIPT
- Authors:
- Rodin, Davor
Publisher: VITTORIO KLOSTERMANN
ISBN: 3-465-02258-0
Year: 1992
Pages: from 26 to 42
Number of references: 27
Language: njemački
Summary: The author analyzes Heidegger's philosophy of speech and
contrasts that with modern theories of writing. Modern theories
of writing show significant semantic differences between speech
and writing that are hidden in Heidegger's philosophy.
Continuing, the author develops a media theory based upon
differences between speech and writing.
Keywords: Heidegger, philosophy of language, theory of writing, media theory
- Type of paper
: Paper in book
Title: HEGEL AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- Authors:
- Rodin, Davor
Publisher: Germinal Verlag
ISBN: 3-465-04572-0
Year: 1991
Pages: from 341 to 352
Number of references: 32
Language: njemački
Summary: The author analyzes various phases of Hegel's consideration
of
the French Revolution, as the benchmark event of the new age. By
showing Hegel's interpretation, he searches for a logical
structure for the historic event. On a basis of modern
literature he shows the semantic discrepancy between a logical
presentation of the revolution and semantically real political
processes. The author also refers to structural and multi-media
analysis of historical events relative to political happenings.
Keywords: Hegel, French revolution
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: THE INTELECTUAL AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LIBERALISM
- Authors:
- Posavec, Zvonko
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 3
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 28
Year: 1991
Pages: from 3 to 8
Number of references: 8
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The renewal of liberalism in the recent twenty-odd years
opensthe question concerning its intellectual foundations and
itsauthenticity. The author finds the answers concerning the sourcesof
liberalism in the individual autonomy of the person formulatedas a natural
right and deduces the legitimacy of power from theindividual's consent. The
whole political order of liberalism isbeing deducted from the right of the
individual as such.Liberalism resides on an existential compromise of
classes,groups, and interests, and is a weak barries to their
existentialstruggle.
Keywords: Liberalism, individual authonomy
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: HOW DEMOCRACY WAS UNDERSTOOD IN THE COURSE OF YUGOSLAVIA'S
DEVELOPMENT, 1918-1980
- Authors:
- Posavec, Zvonko
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 4
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 29
Year: 1992
Pages: from 11 to 18
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The way in which democracy was understood in the course
ofYugoslavi's development from 1918 to 1980 was determined by theneed to
create a firm political unity rather than by thearchitectual growth of the
law and order state with its core inthe affirmation of laws and the respect
for individual rights.The democratic substance was at one time sought in
the idea of aunique nationality of the Yugoslav peoples, at another in
thenation, at a third time in the proleterian internationalism inits
different variants.
Keywords: Democracy, political unification, individual rights, civil society
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: HEGEL AND THE TRADITION OF NATURAL LAW
- Authors:
- Posavec, Zvonko
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 1
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 30
Year: 1993
Pages: from 76 to 84
Number of references: 19
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The author discusses the ralationship between Hegel and
Hobbeswith regard to the tradition of natural law. Both thinkers startby
considering the state of nature as a construct of reason. Yetwhile Hobbes
describes the state of nature as the original stateof the human race, Hegel
in describing it rejects any socialcontext. They both present natural law
as an absolute fact of theindividual's freedom starting from which the
whole building ofthe political community has to be erected.
Keywords: Natural law, individual's freedom, political community
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: THE LIMITS OF PLURALIRY IN A POLITICAL COMMUNITY
- Authors:
- Posavec, Zvonko
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 1
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 28
Year: 1991
Pages: from 88 to 94
Number of references: 9
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The coming of modern society is accompanied with a
pluralism ofgroups which in the area of the theory of the state becomes
asubstitute for the "old" teaching on sovereignty. Pluralistictheories are
concerned with the pluralism of interests, values,and identity. The author
discusses the question how politicalcommunities are constituted with regard
to the plurality ofidentities which can exist within it. He pays
particularattention to the role of speech, of narionality, and of that
theprotagonist of the constitution.
Keywords: Pluralism, suvereignty, pluralism of interests, pluralism of values, pluralism of identity
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: THE CONCEPT OF DEMOCRACY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF YUGOSLAVIE
- Authors:
- Posavec, Zvonko
Journal: Croatian Political Science Review
Number: 2
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 30
Year: 1993
Pages: from 64 to 70
Language: engleski
Summary: The way in which democracy was understood in the course
ofYugoslavi's development from 1918 to 1980 was determined by theneed to
create a firm political unity rather than by thearchitectual growth of the
law and order state with its core inthe affirmation of laws and the respect
for individual rights.The democratic substance was at one time sought in
the idea of aunique nationality of the Yugoslav peoples, at another in
thenation, at a third time in the proleterian internationalism inits
different variants.
Keywords: Democracy, political unification, individual rights, civil society
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: THE LIBERAL NEUTRALIZATION OF THE POLITICAL
- Authors:
- Posavec, Zvonko
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 3
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 30
Year: 1993
Pages: from 173 to 179
Number of references: 7
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The author discusses the proecess in which the political is
beingneutralized as well as the attempt by Carl Schmitt to establishthe
political in opposition to the moral, religious, economic,and technical.
The process of neutralizating the political istaking place exactly in
liberalism, which is based on a preciselydefined concept of culture.
According to this concept in areasseparated from, but also conncted with
each other. The authorpoints to the dominance of the political in the
defining of theorder of human living but he also indicates the difficulties
inthe transcending of the liberal model of political community.
Keywords: Liberalism, neutralizating of political
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: DEPOLITICIZING AS A QUESTIONABLE DEFENCE TOOL OF LIBERAL
DEMOCRACY OR ITS SEMANTIC AND LOGICAL LEGITIMIZATION
- Authors:
- Rodin, Davor
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 3
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 28
Year: 1991
Pages: from 9 to 19
Number of references: 9
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The author explains how contrasts inherent to liberal
democracy,the irreducible will of individuals and their living in common
onthe one hand, and institutionally mediated decision-makingthrough
mechanisms belonging to a state based on law on theother, can be solved. He
tests the successfulness of liberaldemocracy through the interpretation of
two authors, Lbbe andLuhmann. Lbbe is in favour of consensual mediation
betweenindividual and general will and of parliamentary mediation
ofmajority and monority decision-making principles. Luhmannadvocates the
semantic diferentiation of these relations (binarycodes) and his solution
is therefore more modern and originalyliberal since it suggests that
problems should be considered (notsolved) as representing different
semantic levels.
Keywords: Individual will, general will, decision-making, liberal democracy
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND WAR
- Authors:
- Rodin, Davor
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 4
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 29
Year: 1992
Pages: from 88 to 100
Number of references: 11
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The author expounds Carl Schmitt's proposition that civil
war isthe essence of liberal democracy. The ralationship friend-foe isthe
basis of Schmitt's definition of the concept of thepolitical. In this way
Schmitt has existentialisticallyradicalized and actualizad Hobbes'
principle of the war waged byeverybody against everybody. If the set-up of
liberal democraticsociety is defined in this way it follows that war
betweencitizens of one state and war between states are equallyinevitable
as they are uncontrolable. Postwar experience withaerlier European crises
shows that they were all solved bysecondary means. With the ending of the
cold war, however, themuch praised secondary means do not function any
longer. Thereason is that they are no more controlled by the tacit
politicalconsensus between European countries which is also
directlydemonstrated by the current war in the Balkans.
Keywords: Civil war, liberal democracy, political consensus
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOVEREIGN, LEGISLATIVE, AND
EXECUTIVE POWER ACCORDING TO HEGEL
- Authors:
- Rodin, Davor
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 1
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 29
Year: 1992
Pages: from 29 to 42
Number of references: 16
Language: hrvatski
Summary: In his "Philosophy of Law" Hegel reflects on sovereignty
and onlegislative and executive power in a critical dialogue withearlier
bourgeois theories. He rejects the idea of nationalsovereignty and the
sovereignty of citizenship in order to beable to reject all forms of direct
and indirect democracy and allconsensual decision and shaping of popular
will.
Keywords: Sovereignty, national sovereignty, sovereignty of citizenship, democracy
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: POLITICAL ROMANTICISM IN CROATIAN POLITICAL
- Authors:
- Rodin, Davor
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 2
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 29
Year: 1992
Pages: from 106 to 114
Number of references: 4
Language: hrvatski
Summary: In the context of political life in Croatia, the
authorconcludes, political romanticism and its ignoring of reality canbe
counterproductive. Therefore the political problems of theRepublic od
Croatia cannot be solved aesthetically but onlythrough moral, legal, and
political means.
Keywords: Political life, political romanticism
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: THE BALKAN WAR IN THE LIGHT OF AUTHORITATIVE THEORY AND
UNFORESEEABLE REALITY
- Authors:
- Rodin, Davor
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 3
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 30
Year: 1993
Pages: from 160 to 172
Number of references: 6
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The author believes that one cannot accept the opinion that
theBalkan war defies all frameworks of modern political theories andis thus
a conceptually undefinable muddle of inexplicable andunsurveyable
circumstances. He resorts to the work of CarlSchmitt which concentrates
upon two codes prompted by situations:the relationship of politics and law
and the relationship ofpolitics and war. With the help of Schmitt's
conceptualdistincions he analyzes three diachronical processes:
thedisingration of the Yugoslav federation, the disintegration
realsocialism, and the end of the cold war.
Keywords: Political theory, politics, law, war
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: THE LEGITIMACY CRISIS OF COMMUNIST SYSTEMS
- Authors:
- Prpić, Ivan
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 3
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 28
Year: 1991
Pages: from 153 to 169
Number of references: 2
Language: hrvatski
Summary: In discussing the reasons for the decline of the communist
systemthe author analyzes two of their characteristics: themonopolistic
rule of the communist parties and the abolishment ofcapitalist forms of
private ownership. Contemporary comunistorganizations are neither communist
(in terms of ideologicalvalues) nor are they political parties (in the
politologicalsense). The author shows how the communist organizations try
toestablish a new type of community-a community of communists. Fromthe
defining of communist organizations (parties) in this mannerboth the
structure and the decay of communist system can beunderstood.
Keywords: Legitimacy crisis, communist system
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: THE QUOTIDIAN WITHIN THE POSTMODERN HORIZON
- Authors:
- Martinić, Tena
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 4
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 28
Year: 1991
Pages: from 115 to 124
Number of references: 9
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The quotidian is the locus where common norm and
subjectiveprocedure are directly confroted. New types of behavior
areengendered as well as changes issuing from the conflict betweeninherited
norms and individual procedure. The heterogeneity ofthe quotidian has
become particulary pronounced in the secondhalf of our century. It was the
very world of the twentiethcentury man's everyday life that served as the
foundation for theshaping of the concept of the postmoderne.
Keywords: Quotidian, postmoderne
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: FEYERABEND'S CRITIQUE OF LIBERAL TOTALITARIANISM
- Authors:
- Kurelić, Zoran
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 3
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 28
Year: 1991
Pages: from 51 to 58
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The author demonstrates how Feyerabend's thinking, inspired
byMill's liberalism, subjects liberalism itself to criticism as
itrecognizes some totalitarian features in it. From a critic of
thephilosophy of science Feyerabend became a critic of scienceitself, and,
during one period, a critic of all Westernrationality. The object of his
intelectuall attack was thephilosophical work of Karl Popper. In the
beginning he rejectedhis theory of refurability and later extended this to
hiscomplete design of a liberal community. The starting point
ofFeyerabend's criticism was a conjunction between epistemologicalanarchism
and incommesurability that, subjected to the efforts ofpolitical
philosophy, grows into a political relativism. Theauthor outlines the
achievements and the shortcomings ofFeyerabend's attempt to restrict the
domination of therationalist tradition.
Keywords: Feyerabend, liberal totalitarianism, liberalism
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Liberalism and Communitarism: the two Correctives of
Contemporary Democracy
- Authors:
- Rodin, Davor
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 1
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 32
Year: 1995
Pages: from 20 to 31
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The author tries to show which social and plitical
processes in modern postindustrial society underline the above mentioned
deliberation. Upon enumerating some of the key characteristics of the
contemporary information society, the author shows the way in which
communitarianism and new liberalism have tried to counter these challenges.
Keywords: Liberalism, comunitarianism, democracy
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: The Collapse of Socialism and the Ascent of Nationalism
- Authors:
- Posavec, Zvonko
Journal: Politička misao
Number: 1
ISSN: 0032-3241
Volume: 32
Year: 1995
Pages: from 142 to 151
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The author analyses the predictions of the demise of
socialism in the works of H. Arendt, T. Parsons and R. Dahrendorf. He also
enumerates enduring elements on which nationalism has relied upon in modern
spiritual history, defines nationalism and looks into its influence on
Croatian political sysstem. The author focues on the political significance
of nationalism and cautions against its dangers unless reined in by the
institutions of the state of law.
Keywords: The Collapse of Socialism, Nationalism
