NEGACIJA I OTVORENOST: NOVA PARADIGMA ILI KOREKTIV?
NEGATION AND OPENNESS: NEW PARADIGM OR CORRECTIVE?

Summary/Abstract: The article is based on the belief that there was an epoch-making tendency to turn philosophy towards “openness”, a tendency which Karl Popper thematizes before and more clearly than others. That departure from, above all, closed philosophical systems, which then have its social implications and political equivalents, the departure from the unholy historical trinity that for him represents, more or less correctly reconstituted, the transferal Plato-Hegel-Marx, connects him, as a rule against his own self-understanding, with such distant thinkers as, for example, Bergson, existentialism and neo-romantic postmodern trends on the one hand, and pragmatism, philosophical anthropology and Adorno’s critical theory of society on the other. Popper’s understanding of “openness” differs, however, from its contemporary (mis)understandings in the works of, for example, Berlin or Agamben, and to an even greater extent from fashionable “philosophies of openness” that reduce openness to “accessibility”. It is based and demonstrated on a very specific “negativism”, as the methodical approach to scientific research which, in terms of the vision of society, persistently strives to provide resistance to suffering, evil, misfortune, without prescribing the opposite. The openness of the Open Society understood in this way, insofar as it refuses even to be installed in a positively profiled representation, is a recognizable contribution to a philosophical tradition or a philosophical mentality, which remains a permanent antidote to any unquestioned anthropo-political confinement and any projection of historical inevitabilitiy.

• Details
• Contents