ЏЕЈМС ФАЗИ (1794–1878) И ВЛАДИМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ (1833–1922): ПОЗНАНСТВО, УТИЦАЈИ, ИДЕЈЕ
JAMES FAZY (1794–1878) AND VLADIMIR JOVANOVIĆ (1833–1922): ACQUAINTANCE, INFLUENCES, IDEAS

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the life and political ideas of James Fazy (1794–1878), Swiss radical politician, along with similarities and differences in this type of ideas with the ideas and political agenda of Vladimir Jovanović (1833–1922), famous Serbian democratic thinker of 19th century. According to available sources, their friendship lasted from 1864 to 1866, when Jovanović, as political refugee from Serbia, published magazines Sloboda (La Liberté) and Srpska Sloboda (La Liberté Serbe) in Geneva and later, during 1870. Unfortunately, among many acquaintances from abroad, Fazy did not record in his memoirs that he met Jovanović. They shared similar views on democratic radicalism, but they looked at the problems of nationalism differently. In the paper, the emphasis is placed on Fazy’s ideas and life career, with the aim of discovering the touch points he had with Jovanović, especially in political views. Fazy enabled him to get acquainted with the Swiss political and economic system, which he wanted to apply in certain measure in rural, peasant Serbia, but, on the other hand, Jovanović was able to preserve the autonomy of his own political opinion in relation to the average radical European concept of democratic thought of 19th century.

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