Problem komunikativne zajednice: Karl-Oto Apel i jugoslovenski praxis antistaljinizam
The Problem of the Communicative Community: Karl-Otto Apel and Yugoslav Praxis Anti-Stalinism

Summary/Abstract: Drawing on the historical horizon and the hermeneutical situation involved in interpreting a fragment from the Apel’s interview, this paper explores the fundamental tenets of his philosophical transformation, with particular emphasis on his critique of the Marxist paradigm. It also examines the connection between the Apel’s project and the Yugoslav Praxis philosophers’ intention to shape a communicative community and to contribute to the realization of a self-managing, democratic society.This process—unfolding within the broader context of the de-Stalinization of Yugoslav philosophy—proceeded from the re-philosophization of Marxism and the affirmation of the revolutionary-humanist potential of the dialectical-historical principle of the negation of negation, through the development of an ontologically and anthropologically grounded philosophy of praxis and the thematization of alienation, to the conception of revolution as a presumed metaphilosophical instrument of class consciousness and self-emancipation of the working class. The ultimate goal was to overcome pseudo-socialist, that is, state-bureaucratic and techno-managerial forms of order.In its concluding considerations, the paper highlights the key shortcomings of both the rationalist and humanist-utopian projects of transcendental pragmatics (discourse ethics) and the Marxist idea of revolution. It further analyzes the reasons behind the practical failure to establish a liberal and socialist democratic communicative community and, consequently, to achieve the de-alienation of humanity. This failure is interpreted as the result of an aporia between engaged intellectuals and the logic of realpolitic—an impasse that prevented the realization of the fundamental humanist and emancipatory ideals of modern philosophical thought. The paper ultimately raises questions that radically call into doubt the scope and validity of these ambitions.

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