Branislav Petronijević i Ksenija Atanasijević – dva shvatanja filozofije i filozofa u savremenom filozofskom diskursu
BRANISLAV PETRONIJEVIĆ AND KSENIJA ATANASIJEVIĆ – TWO CONCEPTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHER IN THE CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE

Author(s): Marinko V. Lolić
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: philosophy; philosopher; university; Branislav Petronijević; natural metaphysician; Ksenija Atanasijević; female philosopher; feminism; gender
Summary/Abstract: Branislav Petronijević had a versatile and exceptionally important role in the development of the academic philosophy in our country. After he had obtained PhD in philosophy in Leipzig, he soon became professor in the Grand School, later the University of Belgrade, where he introduced a series of new philosophical disciplines and with his systematic academic work considerably improved the teaching of philosophy in our country. In the Serbian philosophy of the first half of the 20th century, his name became the synonym for philosophy and philosopher. Beside his international philosophic reputation, Petronijević was also popular within a circle of our academic philosophers who followed the greatest Serbian metaphysician when it came to their conceptions of philosophy and philosopher. The talented Ksenija Atanasijević had a special place within that circle of students of Petronijević’s while she was also the first woman who obtained PhD in philosophy from the University of Belgrade, and subsequently was appointed assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade. The enormous merits of the authoritative Branislav Petronijević for Ksenija Atanasijević’s appointment at the University and her introduction into the Serbian academic philosophical élite, a cultural sphere dominated by men, were not less substantial than the role he played in her subsequent removal from the Faculty of Philosophy, which has never been fully clarified. The philosophical aspects of this event are extraordinarily important not only for understanding of the development of our philosophy, but also for the whole modern civil culture and the public and social life of our élite in the first half of the 20th century. In this paper the author tries to illuminate less apparent philosophical aspects of this event and to present the shifts in the understanding of the concepts of philosophy and philosopher in the writings of Ksenija Atanasijević, as one of the important points of discord between she and her mentor Petronijević, which is still insufficiently explored and which nowadays, when philosophy is no longer restrictive to women (gender), can be interesting for the studying and understanding of reconceptualization of the key notions in the contemporary Serbian philosophical discourse.

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