O srećnim društvima i promenama koje sreću kvare: Umesto predgovora
On Happy Societies and the Changes that Spoil Happiness

Author(s): Goran Bašić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Social Sciences
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: post-Yugoslav space; social sciences; happiness; conference
Summary/Abstract: What is a happy society? Had Yugoslavia been a happier society than the societies that were created on its territory? What was the position of social sciences, scientists and the Institute of Social Sciences in the distribution of the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav happiness? These are the main dilemmas that I deal with in this paper – preface. I have no ambition to answer these questions, but I intend to stimulate thinking about whether the capacity of the Yugoslav state, had it resisted the challenges that occurred immediately after the deconstruction of the “Iron Curtain“ myth, to respond to the challenges of the age in which liberalism marches on with furious pace, would have been greater than that of the states that were created in its territory.

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