SANU o nacionalnim i državnim interesima; Akademija na mlakoj vatri (ne)podnošljive klonulosti
SASA on national and state interests; An academy on a tepid fire of (un)bearable languor

Author(s): Božidar Jakšić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Nationalism Studies
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Serbian national interest; the state interest of Serbia; the status of Kosovo and Metohija
Summary/Abstract: The basis of this paper is an attempt to search for an answer to the question of whether it is possible to guess - although it is possible, what is the way out of the isolation, self-isolation and stigmatization of SASA in the conditions of insufficiently strong democratic potential of Serbian society. In principle, from a methodological point of view, the Academy was observed through the prism of its own documentation. Efforts to restore the reputation of the Academy are analyzed in several points. These are, after an insight into the general situation after the political changes in 2000, overcoming the difficulties surrounding the renewal of international cooperation, the issue of accepting new, younger members, the state of work on the traditionally oldest SANU project (from 1893) - the SASA Dictionary and, finally, SASA's attitude towards the most important state issue of modern Serbia - the issue of the status of Kosovo and Metohija. Consideration of these moments was essential for understanding SASA's efforts to remove from its name the stigma that, with good reasons or without, followed the Academy in the last decade of the last century. Analysis of the situation in SASA after 2000 showed that the potential of critical thinking in the Academy is at a very modest level. Until it reaches a higher level and becomes capable of rationally articulating human material and cultural misery and frustrations into demands for the life of free people, SASA will languish in a state of empty representativeness and live on the lukewarm fire of (un)bearable lethargy.

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