One of the basic incentives of the development of philosophy in the 20th century as undoubtedly the attempt at hermeneutic grounding of Geisteswissenschaften in Wilhelm Dilthey, which, in Heidegger, took the course of hermeneutical formation of philosophy itself and eventually led to the insight that there is nothing to begin with within philosophy and that the genuine place of thinking should be determined from without philosophy. However, thinking which transcends philosophy and descends under it at the same time finds itself on the way in between, in a certain midst, which calls for an understanding proper only to itself. Such nderstanding primarily determines “dealing with hermeneutics”, which in the previous century tellingly transformed into philosophical hermeneutics. What this designation actually embraces can only be realized after we have reached that which was in its grasp: contemporaneity as the going-on of philosophical hermeneutics.
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The article, based on interdisciplinary historiographical and anthropological studies and archival documents, collected folk literature and other documents, will reconstruct the ritual of blood feud with emphasis on the act of humiliation and penance as reflected in documents from Southeast Europe, comparing them with many fragments of medieval European cases, refl ecting general ritual structure in the fi eld of public aff airs: Homage (gift, fi rst approach), Fides (fi delity, oath, truce) and Investiture (appointment), and, in case of dispute settlement, Pace Perpetua – lasting peace (love, marriage), with particular focus on principles of the so called gift-exchange societies. The hypothesis of this article,based on collected material and on outlined cases, is arguing in favour of the principle of the general ritual structure for all public aff airs, in which precisely the gesture of penance and humiliation plays an important symbolic role, especially in the ritual of vindicta, that is in the customary system of confl ict resolution.
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The article picks up the documents kept in the main British archives in London (The National Archives), with the intent to look back for hundred years and trace some considerations on the context that brought Italy, Great Britain, Russia and France to sign the Memorandum of London (known as the Pact of London) on April 26, 1915.
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