Holokaust i filozofija
The Holocaust and Philosophy
Contributor(s): Predrag Krstić (Editor), Mark Losoncz (Editor)
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Holocaust; literature; motives; collections; philosophical aspect; philosophy
Summary/Abstract: The collection of essays The Holocaust and Philosophy is an overview of the current state of the theoretical literature in Serbo-Croatian on the Holocaust, as well an effort to open up further research. The contributions are separated into three thematic units. The first comprises texts that examine approaches of various philosophic tendencies towards the Holocaust. The second block is dedicated to literary representations, descriptions, and reflections of the Holocaust. The final section in the volume could be said to have as its guiding thread a focus on what follows after the Holocaust: its consequences, some sort of an “explanation”, models of understanding it that render not only theory, but also practice meaningful, to the extent that it must exist in the shadow of one such cardinal crime.
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-86-80484-18-1
- Page Count: 236
- Publication Year: 2018
- Language: Serbian
Holokaust i fenomenologija gađenja
Holokaust i fenomenologija gađenja
(The Holocaust and the Phenomenology of Disgust)
- Author(s):Dragan Prole
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Philosophy, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
- Page Range:14-37
- No. of Pages:24
- Keywords:Holocaust; Disgust; Hannah Arendt; modern evil; banality of evil
- Summary/Abstract:With the book Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt started the current discussion about the nature of modern evil. Her thesis on the banality of evil disrupted standard notions of evil as something that destroys man's horizons of expectation and transcends the ordinary course of conscious life. In contrast, according to Hannah Arendt, evil primarily inhabits the mundane, ordinary and everyday side of life. Metaphorically speaking, Hannah Arendt's diagnosis caused an uproar because she brought evil down from heaven to earth. Evil no longer resides in transcendent, distant and inaccessible spheres of existence, it is rather a "betrayal of transcendence" (Zafranski 2005: 43). Instead of the former epithets, which on a descriptive level associated evil with the demonic, monstrous, supernatural, with something that goes beyond human measures and is therefore inaccessible to human understanding, now evil has become something well-known, close, mundane.
Razumjeti nepojmljivo? O (ne)mogućnosti hermeneutičkog promišljanja radikalnog zločina
Razumjeti nepojmljivo? O (ne)mogućnosti hermeneutičkog promišljanja radikalnog zločina
(Understand the unfathomable? On the (im)possibility of hermeneutical consideration of a radical crime)
- Author(s):Željko Radinković
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Philosophy, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
- Page Range:38-55
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:hermeneutical consideration; radical crime; Hannah Arendt; radical evil
- Summary/Abstract:Trying to define radical evil, Hannah Arendt wrote the following in 1950: "Radical evil is that which should not have happened, that is, that which cannot be reconciled, which must not be accepted as fate under any conditions, and which must also not be passed over in silence. It is that which cannot be taken responsibility for, because its consequences are unfathomable and because there is no appropriate punishment for them. It does not it means that every evil must be punished, but if we want to reconcile and turn away from it, it must be punishable" (Arendt 2002: 7).
Ravnodušnost i akcija: Holokaust i granice emotivnog iskustva
Ravnodušnost i akcija: Holokaust i granice emotivnog iskustva
(Indifference and Action: The Holocaust and the Limits of Emotional Experience)
- Author(s):Igor Cvejić
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
- Page Range:56-71
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:Holocaust; Limits of Emotional Experience; Hannah Arendt
- Summary/Abstract:When we talk about the Holocaust event, "indifference" appears as a theme in different narratives. Back in the twenties, Scheler talked about the political apathy of the German youth after the First World War. Political indifference is also mentioned when describing the situation in Germany before the Second World War, at the end of the 20s and the beginning of the 30s of the 20th century (primarily, about the indifference of those who were not members of the National Socialist movement). Hannah Arendt talks about political indifference, which is a (not sufficient) condition for the development of totalitarianism (Arendt 1979).1 Indifference then appears as an important moment in the education of the Totenkopf groups in the Dachau camp. Finally, there is a specific indifference in the narrative of high-ranking SS officers, which was most exposed during their defense at the trial, especially in the case of Adolf Eichmann, known to the public thanks again to Hannah Arendt.
Austerlic, Gegen-Denkmal i granice čega?
Austerlic, Gegen-Denkmal i granice čega?
(Austerlitz, Gegen-Denkmal and borders of what?)
- Author(s):Vladimir Gvozden
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
- Page Range:72-102
- No. of Pages:31
- Keywords:Holocaust; Gegen-Denkmal
- Summary/Abstract:The fact is that in the past two decades, new forms of public memory (memorial centers, monuments, Holocaust museums, a day of commemoration or remembrance) have become part of the normative policies of many countries, including attempts to preserve the memories of survivors who are still alive (Knige, Fry 2011: VIII).* And yet, the question of how to modernize, or perhaps better to say, process the memory of the Holocaust so that "horror and violence cannot get the last word" is still raised. (Books, Fry 2011: XIV). "Writing about the Holocaust becomes both impossible and necessary," notes Susan Shapiro in her interpretation of Emil Fackenheim's philosophy (Shapiro 2008: 36). If there was, as Hans Jonas says, more "reality than is possible" in the Holocaust, how can literature contain that excess? If the Holocaust cannot be avoided - even ignoring it is a reaction - or incorporated into everyday life, then what can be done?
Sećanje na Holokaust u jugoslovenskoj i postjugoslovenskoj književnosti: transnacionalne dimenzije traumatskih sećanja na Balkanu
Sećanje na Holokaust u jugoslovenskoj i postjugoslovenskoj književnosti: transnacionalne dimenzije traumatskih sećanja na Balkanu
(Remembering the Holocaust in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature: transnational dimensions of traumatic memories in the Balkans)
- Author(s):Stejn Vervat
- Language:Croatian, Serbian
- Subject(s):History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
- Page Range:103-130
- No. of Pages:28
- Keywords:Holocaust; Yugoslav literature; post-Yugoslav literature; traumatic memories; Balkans
- Summary/Abstract:Traumatic memories of collectively suffered evil are often perceived as a process based on competitive logic, i.e. on the idea that commemorating the suffering of a certain ethnic, religious or national group in the public space automatically denies the same right to other groups or even denies the existence of the traumatic past of other communities. However, in recent years, cultural memory theorists, mainly on the example of the connection between the memory of the Holocaust and the memory of colonialism (Rothberg 2009, Craps 2013, Silverman 2013), have begun to question this competitive understanding of memory, which in it essentially starts from the idea that public (and discursive) space is indivisible and belongs to the majority ethnic group that inhabits it.
Progutati M/mamac: čitanje Albaharijevog predstavljanja Holokausta u kontekstu postjugoslovenskih ratova
Progutati M/mamac: čitanje Albaharijevog predstavljanja Holokausta u kontekstu postjugoslovenskih ratova
(Swallow the B/bait: reading Albahari's presentation of the Holocaust in the context of the post-Yugoslav wars)
- Author(s):Aleksandar Pavlović
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Serbian Literature, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
- Page Range:131-146
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:David Albahari; Holocaust; bait;
- Summary/Abstract:The work of David Albahari represents a specific phenomenon and in a certain sense a challenge for the literary studies of the Holocaust. Namely, although we are talking about a writer of Jewish origin whose parents and family suffered heavily in the Second World War, in Albahari's work the topic of the Holocaust actually appears relatively late. Until the nineties of the twentieth century and the outbreak of war in the former Yugoslavia, postmodernist obsession with language and story prevails in his books, the (impossibility) of telling a story, the status of storytelling and storytellers, postmodern experimenting with form, changing different narrative levels, etc. Albahari writes in the first person and his stories and novels deal obsessively with family; topics are the home atmosphere, chatting, walks with my father by the Danube, conversations with my wife and the like. Although the topic of Jewishness and Jewish characters have a prominent place in these works, their suffering in the Second World War is rarely mentioned, as if the Holocaust belongs to some kind of past that is not addressed or remains unspoken, deeply intimate and repressed.
Šta je istorijska singularnost? Pojmovne dileme i izazovi
Šta je istorijska singularnost? Pojmovne dileme i izazovi
(What is a historical singularity? Conceptual dilemmas and challenges)
- Author(s):Mark Losoncz
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Philosophy, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
- Page Range:147-175
- No. of Pages:29
- Keywords:Holocaust; historical singularity;
- Summary/Abstract:After a long career in everyday language and a complex career in the sciences and literature, the terms "singularity" and "singular" also appeared in philosophy, immediately occupying a central place in it. In the first part of this paper, we will analyze how singularity was discussed in contemporary philosophy, and we will pay special attention to the problem of historical singularity, and in the second part, we will deal with the example of the Holocaust, which was most often and most controversially attributed the status of historical singularity (uniqueness, Einzigartigkeit, unicité).
Misao posle užasa: problemi znanja i pamćenja
Misao posle užasa: problemi znanja i pamćenja
(Thought after horror: problems of knowledge and memory)
- Author(s):Lazar Atanasković
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Philosophy, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
- Page Range:176-197
- No. of Pages:22
- Keywords:Holocaust; horror; memory
- Summary/Abstract:Everything that happened between 1933 and 1945 on European streets, in concentration camps, in ghettoized Jewish quarters, in the open fields of Eastern Europe - had as its most ephemeral consequence the fact that the much-appreciated Western thought about history found itself before the finished act. After 1945, horror became the most obvious fact of history, a fact that, on the one hand, seems to fall into the continuity of human history, while on the other hand, breaks or cuts that continuity. Any understanding of Auschwitz as just one more event, in continuity with everything else, becomes problematic the moment that one more is spoken out loud. The impossibility of answering the question - in relation to what the experience of Auschwitz would be meant as another experience, necessarily already refers to the thought of concentration camps as a razor blade that asymmetrically cuts the previous history, to an incomprehensibly vast before and almost punctually after.
Aušvic: skandal za mišljenje ili skandal mišljenja?
Aušvic: skandal za mišljenje ili skandal mišljenja?
(Auschwitz: a scandal for opinion or a scandal of opinion?)
- Author(s):Predrag Krstić
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):History, Philosophy, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
- Page Range:198-230
- No. of Pages:33
- Keywords:Holocaust; Auschwitz
- Summary/Abstract:In Woody Allen's film Hannah and Her Sisters, one of Hannah's sisters is named Lee. After a short love trip with Hana's husband, she returns home, from which her partner Frederik, an aged, poor and withdrawn painter, does not move. He recounts to her what he did that evening: he was watching another show about the Holocaust, in which they unsuccessfully tried to answer the question of how it was possible. "You missed a very boring television program about Auschwitz. Again gruesome film clips, again asked intellectuals announcing their bewilderment at the systematic murder of millions. The reason they will never be able to answer the question 'How could this have happened?' is because it is the wrong question. Given what people are, the right question is 'Why doesn't it happen more often?'"
Beleška o autorima
Beleška o autorima
(Note about the authors)
- Author(s):Author Not Specified
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Philosophy, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
- Page Range:231-235
- No. of Pages:5
