The aim of the book is to draw some implications from the thesis according to which there are two revolutions in the way of thinking at work in Kant’s philosophy. The result of the twofold “Copernican turn” in the Critique of Judgment is a new figure of the subject and the object that calls into question the correlation between the subject and the object as the crucial feature of Kant’s philosophy. At the same time, it introduces a radically novel concept of the relationship between the singular and the universal.
COBISS.SI-ID: 43589165
Once the myth of Europa is seen as the European foundational myth, questions regarding the origin and meaning of the myth of Europa and of the word Europa itself become questions of the origins and meaning of Europe. These questions, involving the large issues of cultural heritage and racial descent, can thus become of central importance for the construction of “European civilization”. The myth of Europa functions as a prism through which we see world history. At the same time, the way one wants to see world history – and Europe’s place therein – and the value one attaches to “European civilization” determine interpretations of the myth of Europa and of the name Europa. The article surveys the nineteenth- and twentieth-century debates among historians of Classical antiquity and mythologists over the origins of Europa and Europe, with a special focus on the presumed or denied Semitic origins of the mythical figure Europa and of “European culture” or “civilization”, as well as on the frontiers of Europe. The politics of those debates were articulated in the context of the advancement of colonialism and anti-Semitism, the rise of Nazism, and two world wars.
COBISS.SI-ID: 45750317
In critical border studies Europe is often compared to a border-zone, border-land, border-space or even-border-scape. This article sets out from Balibar’s concepts of heterogeneity and ubiquity of borders today in order to explore Europe as a borderland, i.e. a zone of transition and mobility without territorial fixity. Thus, in order to clarify the political aspect of bordering practices in Europe and beyond, it is necessary to departure from the idea of borders as clearly delineated and segregated spatialities. To re-consider the making and unmaking of European borders, the article turns to Lacan’s neologicm, “lituraterre”, which, in a double gesture of writing and erasure, brings together two incompatible fantasies of Europe: the image that Europe has of itself, and a counter-image or fantasy of Europe brought into existence by the erratic movement of the refugees in their journey through the EU territory. By drawing on W. Walters’ elaboration of the “humanitarian border” and Mbembe’s “necropolitics”, the articles examines the functioning of the humanitarian border as zone of the state of exception in which the migrant’s body is reduced to the status of “bare life”. Drawing on the work of the so-called “Autonomy of Migration” scholars as well as that of Th. Neal’s conceptualization of the figure of the migrant as a political subject, the article probes into the emancipatory impact of the clandestine migrant’s movement.
COBISS.SI-ID: 45741101
We have reconsidered the situation of feminism today, in modern Europe, and embedded feminism in the very logic of contemporary European politics, which closes its eyes to migration crises and disregards gender and race and the class dimensions of postcolonial positions as refugees in the grip of desubjectivity. We described in more detail the history of the Marxist-feminist perspective present in the former Yugoslavia from the 1960s to the present and the evolution of European socialism towards the modern turbo-neoliberal capitalist state. We reanalyzed the relationship between capital and labor, freedom, violence and democracy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 44421123
This article examines Giorgio Agamben’s rejection of the religious term Holocaust as a name for the extermination of the Jewish people in so far as it implies a sacrificial exchange with the divine. He argues that the Jews were not killed as sacrificial victims but as (biopolitical) homines sacri. Yet, in so doing, as Rey Chow argued, Agamben also denies the redemptive potential of the term Holocaust, preventing the victims finding a place in public memory. In fact, he overlooks the fact that the “Final Solution” also involved a plan to erase all traces of the extermination itself. This attempt of erasing the traces of extermination is read in the article through Medieval theological concept of Potentia Dei Absoluta, that is, as an anti-Aristotelian divine power of "undoing" even apparently unchangable, objective order of history. The article then seeks to challenge Agamben’s view with the help of László Nemes’ film Son of Saul. It argues that Nemes’ film is a unique example of a film about the Holocaust that avoids regression into positions that Agamben criticizes. As such, the film can be regarded as an example of Benjaminian messianic redemption.
COBISS.SI-ID: 45060141