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Uticaj filozofije jezika na savremenu političku filozofiju
Influence of Philosophy of Language to Contemporary Political Philosophy

Author(s): Bojan Vranić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: normative theory; philosophy of language; Wittgenstein; linguistic games; essentially disputable terms

Summary/Abstract: Around the mid-1990s, political philosophy was pronounced dead due to the foray of logic positivism. The arguments for this were sufficiently strong, to the extent that classical political philosophy could not anymore be considered a relevant framework for research. The goal of this paper is to analyze the changes which occurred in the field of studying of political philosophy around the mid-20th century (from the 1940s to the 1970s). The author here controverts the attitude that contemporary political philosophy, although abandoning metaphysical frames, still preserved the normative dimension of studying the reality. The key agent through which contemporary political philosophy emerged originates from the works of philosophers of language, particularly from later works of Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 143-167
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Serbian