A spectre is haunting Europe: The Korčula Summer School as a freethinking island and space for dialogue Cover Image

Widmo krąży po Europie. Korczulańska Szkoła Letnia jako wyspa wolnego myślenia i przestrzeń dialogu
A spectre is haunting Europe: The Korčula Summer School as a freethinking island and space for dialogue

Author(s): Ewa Wróblewska-Trochimiuk
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Social history
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Korčulanska Ljetna Škola; Praxis; Socialism; Yugoslavia; cultural transfer

Summary/Abstract: The Korčula Summer School and the journal Praxis associated with it occupy an important place on the map of Yugoslav intellectual history in the nineteen-sixties and seventies. Philosophers, sociologists and representatives of other professions considered the issues of Socialism, revolution, the idea of self-government. These direct contacts with Western intellectuals were not only an important contribution to the Yugoslav philosophical thought, but also constituted an input to the contemporary Western intellectual life. The aim of the article is to present the complex inter-institutional and interpersonal network by which the Yugoslav achievements of the so-called Praxis group became part of the European heritage. In this way, studying wandering ideas shows the Yugoslav culture to be not only receptive, but also creative and innovative.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 1-19
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish