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DVOJICA HARMONIZATORA EPOHE – HEGEL I TOKVIL – I KONSTITUISANJE ŠIROKOG GRAĐANSKOG POLITIČKOG CENTRA
TWO HARMONIZERS OF THE EPOCH – HEGEL AND TOCQUEVILLE – AND CONSTITUTIONING OF WIDE CIVIL POLITICAL CENTRE

Author(s): Neven Cvetićanin
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Political Theory, 19th Century Philosophy
Published by: Filozofsko društvo Srbije
Keywords: Hegel; Tocqueville; revolution; restauration; harmonizers; synthesizers; classical liberal centre; wide civil political centre; left centre; right centre;

Summary/Abstract: The text is elaborating the work of two philosophers – Hegel and Tocqueville in context of assembling of political liberal centre. Both of them will take the role of synthesizers of epochal movements, as well as «harmonizers» of the Epoch, hereafter they will adjust some of the ideas brought by French Revolution to some of the conservative values pre-dating it. Both of them will take part in project of constituting of wide civil political centre by enriching the classical Locke-Kant’s liberal centre with certain values (Hegel by adding the concept of bureaucratic state, Tocqueville by adding the concept of intermediate democracy) which will cause it to transform in wide medium that will soon absorb parts of Left and Right, making them to be left and right centre. This wide civil political centre, which will include the left and right centre in itself, will become truly dominant nowadays so Hegel and Tocqueville can be understood as ideological precursors of modern political actions.

  • Issue Year: 53/2010
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 89-112
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Serbian
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