Ksenija Atanasijević o Terezi iz Avile: skica za uporednu analizu
KSENIJA ATANASIJEVIĆ ABOUT TERESA OF ÁVILA (1515-1582): A SKETCH FOR COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Author(s): Svenka Savić
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: text analysis; feminism; philosophy; religion; Ksenija Atanasijević; Teresa of Ávila
Summary/Abstract: Ksenija Atanasijević (1894-1981) published 90 years ago two articles on Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582), one entitled “Saint Teresa of Ávila as a Woman Writer” (1928). With this article she introduced to Belgrade public the Catholic woman saint as “the most gifted of all mystical women writers” and her choice aimed at confirming the conclusion that mystics and philosophers are to the same extent interested in “how to appreciate life when everything spins in the vortex of internal change.” I analyze the quotes from the texts of the woman saint included in the text of the woman philosopher in Serbia at the end of the third decade of the 20th century (1928); we listen to the voice of the woman saint, which echoes as the identification with the experience in the woman philosopher’s own life (as we today also tend to identify ourselves with her text while reading it). I conclude that the woman philosopher is one of the pioneers in field of feminist theology in our society because she informed broader public about the opinions of women from other religious confessions, above all reflecting on the truth of living together, and in that way tried to provide answers to fundamental questions of philosophy and religion, with the same concern as contemporary feminists do today.

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