The article assumes the complexity of the global crisis and analyses its causes and (ir)responsibility for it. Among many flawed political decisions, the author in particular exposes the responsibility of economic science and those influential economists who served the neoliberal ideology and its dogma on the omnipotent market, respectively. In accordance with this dogma, they defended and practised the irrelevancy of any viable social (state) regulation of economic life or market and furthermore dislodged any democratic deliberation in this area. The author argues for a viable new economic and social paradigm in favour of the idea of the human economy. Such a paradigm would imply that accumulating and creating wealth does not serve the goal but is a means to support a more just social cohesion which opposes the unreasonable increasing of the gap between rich and poor. This should be considered as an urgent challenge, which currently not only threatens capitalism, but the very evolutionary future of mankind.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30732893
The paper is a critical contribution to contemporary theory of cosmopolitanism which takes into account specific socio-cultural and political contexts of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. It is argued that in order for cosmopolitanism to become effective politics and the practice of democratic citizenship, it has to be grounded in daily processes of negotiation of loyalty and patriotism to the national society. In this regard, it should not be conceptualised as nationalism's other but rather as an alternative patriotic sentiment, which combines the global ethos of humanity and responsibility towards political and cultural organization of local social life. The paper illuminates this approach from the perspective of post-socialist citizenship in Slovenia and the tragic experience of the "erased".
COBISS.SI-ID: 45709410
Monograph deals with the most relevant theories of nationalism. Special attention is paid to historical and cultural perspective, while offering an overview of mainstream discourses on ethnicity, nation and nationalism. An important scientific achievement is author`s examination, which theoretical models overlap the most with the sociological specifics of Slovene situation. A common basis for historically different types of nationalism today is, as author notes, globalization. Contrary to the assertions of those who predict the decline of nation-states, nationalism and national identity, author stands on position that nations remain a relevant source of political and cultural identity. In doing so he identifies some specific aspects and theoretical contributions in the studies of globalization, addressing the importance, the role and the power of nationalist formations in the global age.
COBISS.SI-ID: 259231744