Pitanje demokracije
The Question of Democracy

Summary/Abstract: The author pleads for a renewal of political philosophy by asking what it means again to think politically in our time. He also tries to re-examine some characteristic of the concept of democracy which renews its weight in relationship to totalitarianism and cannot be reduced to an institutional system. After looking critically upon the works of Tocqueville who - contrary to most of his contemporaries - saw democracy as a form of government, the author comes to the conclusion that democracy appears to be a historical social category par exellence, of a society that in its form accepts and maintains indefinability. This is in significant contrast to totalitarianism which, establishing itself with the slogan of building the new man, in fact acts against this indefinability and tries to conserve the rules of its own organization. Thus, in the contemporary world, totalitarianism manifests itself secretely as a society without history.

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