ZORAN ĐINĐIĆ – POLITIKA KAO POZIV I POLITIKA KAO SUDBINA
ZORAN DJINDJIC – POLITICS AS A VOCATION AND POLITICS AS A DESTINY

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I try to shed light on the political legacy and political engagement of Zoran Đinđić. In the first part of the work “Politics as a Calling”, I analyze the connection between his theoretical work and practical action, the relationship between theory and practice, philosophy and politics. For Đinđić, philosophy was an inspiration and a stronghold for changing the world and the system he was not satisfied with. Đinđić stopped being a politician - to philosophize, to become a politician - to act. The point of intersection of Đinđić›s philosophical and political discussions and political involvement, and what he will be remembered for, was the idea of an “unfinished state”, which applied to Yugoslavia and was and still is valid for Serbia. Đinđić dedicated his entire public intellectual engagement to politics as a vocation. Đinđić was the creator of political changes in 2000, a bearer of hope, a modernizer and a statesman. He wanted to change Serbia despite the organized resistance to changes by the forces of continuity. In the second part entitled - “Politics as Destiny”, I point out the elements of the tragedy of the ancient hero who offers his life as the last sacrifice to the idea of freedom, to the idea of a democratic Serbia in Europe and to the idea of a future that should prevail over the shackled past; I show that Đinđić had a passion for politics and suffered from his greatest passion; and how he was the modernizer of Serbia and its enlightener. The fate of those who go ahead of time is to be shot in the back. Zoran Đinđić›s philosophical education and foundation, political engagement and commitment to change will remain recorded as a bright spot in recent Serbian history.

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