Nation as a Product and Expression of Exclusiveness of a Civil Society Cover Image

Nacija kao produkt i izraz isključivosti građanskog društva
Nation as a Product and Expression of Exclusiveness of a Civil Society

Author(s): Šefik Baraković
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: civil society; nation; exclusiveness; development of civil society; civil relations; civil tendency; liberalism; irrationality.

Summary/Abstract: The concept of nation was historically introduced by the development of civil political relations. It has not only served as an exponent and representative of those relations, but it has also served as means of mediation, compression, determination and implementation of the experience of civic and political contradictions, which brought about many challenges in the problemsolving processes. Nation helped civil processes promote the tendency of superordination and realization of power via structural promotion of the civil dynamisms. Not only in political and ideological development, a civil society should also create and fully stimulate the necessary limitations and exclusiveness, and that is where the role of a nation is unrivaled and irreplaceable.Exclusiveness of a nation is articulated on presuppositions of the widest civil and cultural politics, as well as on politics of intensification of the civil economical perspective. Degrees of a civil society’s development, determined by the favored interests, protective integrations and ways of manifestation or functioning of the existing civil irrationality, also determine the degree of national exclusiveness. The expression ‘exclusiveness of a nation’ is its spiritus agens which accompanies the nation in its civil mission! Exclusiveness may be manifested in many ways, but in essence, it is determined by the area in which the dominant civil relations are manifested, as well as by the historical degree of integrity realized and legitimized by a civil society. The historically most illustrative example of factors of civil exclusiveness of a nation may be observed in the civil growth and functioning of countries such as Germany and Italy, in the period leading to the end of Second World War. In the case of Germany, we witness an amazing interweaving and conditioning of civil historicalpolitical and creative-cultural national components. The creativecultural civil components were pawned and converted only to ensure, via national economic emancipation, a theoretical base and agenda. What remained, by the nature of affairs, was only compensation. That pawning served the creative and spiritual civil balance, but could not have eliminated the factual political tightness, which arose as a result of the steadily formed and realized civil phase of liberalism. Exclusive national political way could accept, by the pawn of continuity and produce the context of initiation of irrationality.

  • Issue Year: L/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 115-140
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Bosnian