Ksenija Atanasijević u raljama akademskih elita i čaršije
KSENIJA ATANASIJEVIC IN THE JAWS OF ACADEMIC ELITES AND GENERAL PUBLIC

Author(s): Ljiljana Vuletić
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, Cultural history
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Ksenija Atanasijevic; academic elite; general public; gossip; synergy; attack; response
Summary/Abstract: University career, public service, as well as private life of philosopher Ksenija Atanasijevic (1894 – 1981), the first woman to complete doctoral studies at the University of Belgrade (1922), as well as the first female associate professor at the University of Belgrade (1923), took place in sharp confrontation with dominant patriarchal mentality. This article indicates the existence of synergetic activity between academic elite and general public, both of which have been using gossip, for the purposes of fulfilling their common objective— to remove Ksenija Atanasijevic from academic community, and compromise her private life. Ksenija Atanasijevic has courageously responded, with a series of public denials in the press, to the attacks from academic and general cliques. However, being aware of one’s own paradigmatic importance in Serbian culture—the importance which many of her contemporaries were not aware of—Ksenija Atanasijevic did not stop there. As a philosop h e r s h e a n a l y ze d t h e v e r y s o c i a l phenomena, the devastating effect of which she was subjected to in her personal life, and wrote about them critically. The chronological overview of the attacks against Ksenija Atanasijevic, and her responses to the attacks, whether through press denials, or through critical ethicalphilosophical analyses, documents this hypothesis.

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