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Od (ne)tolerancije do dijaloga i zajedništva
From (In)Tolerance to Dialogue and Togetherness

Author(s): Stipe Tadić, Branko Jozić, Vine Mihaljević
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar

Summary/Abstract: The dialectic between identity and otherness has become the permanent dynamics of conflict and bonding, intolerance and coexistence. In our time the scope and intensity of globalisation leads resolutely to the mutual fusing of parts of the world into one whole. However, at the same time it stresses the fragility of particular identities as well as the world in general and thus generates new tensions and conflicts. The process of globalisation and development of tolerance began a long time ago, thus concepts of equality, brotherhood and sisterhood, freedom, justice, tolerance and mutual turning towards togetherness can be found in antiquity. Lately, however, a certain susceptibility to otherness has been developing and attempts at overcoming the narrowmindedness of spirit and frenzied aggressiveness are becoming all the more intense. Namely, a true speech of (...)

  • Issue Year: 14/2005
  • Issue No: 77
  • Page Range: 545-564
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Croatian