Defending the Unity of Bosnian Culture: Ivan Lovrenović – a Total Intellectual in Sarajevo Cover Image

W obronie jedności kultury bośniackiej. Ivan Lovrenović - intelektualista totalny z Sarajewa
Defending the Unity of Bosnian Culture: Ivan Lovrenović – a Total Intellectual in Sarajevo

Author(s): Dominika Kaniecka
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Wydział Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Ivan Lovrenović; total intellectual; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bosnian Croatian; Bosnian culture

Summary/Abstract: Ivan Lovrenović is an intellectual living in Sarajevo, a writer, publicist, and author of essays and treatises on Bosnian culture and history. This text is a case study describing selected aspects of Lovrenović’s output. The author not only asks questions about the whole of Lovrenović’s intellectual activities but about the position of the intellectual in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She discusses how intellectual activity is conditioned by local circumstances.Lovrenović has advocated a common Bosnian culture, consistently pointing to the danger of dividing descriptions of the Bosnian-Herzegovinan world into solely Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian parts. Lovrenović is considered a total intellectual on account of the complexity of his activities to understand, describe, and systematically propagate that idea, his consistent attitude of protest, and also his commitment to defending common sense.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 125-144
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish