ZAŠTO GUBITI VRIJEME S DINKOM TOMAŠIĆEM?
WHY WASTE TIME WITH DINKO TOMAŠiĆ?

Summary/Abstract: The current interest in Tornašlć's work is not only an archeological obligation of social sciences, but one of the first problems of deconstructionist analysis of a period in which Tomašić was one of the numerous "blind spots". Interest for such analyses is all the greater, because Tomašić, like many others, was a politically engaged scientist - a social reformer - so his "falling into oblivion" was probably more motivated by political interest. Thus reviving curiosity for Tornašlč's work the author continues to analyze briefly his two main ideas: the one about the cultural identity as the basis of the "Balkan crisis", as well as the idea about Balkan societies as societies "under pressure". Both ideas clearly demonstrate that a lack of systematic analyses of cultural and social processes in the past can indeed be perilous, and also that it is neccesary to develop explorative approaches in major issues of modern Croatian society.

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