In his paper the author investigates the emergence of the "biography" as a rounded story about the so-called "witnesses of their time", which, as a constitutive element of an allegedly shared history, generates an impression of the wider social "memory". The paper explores the images of individuals who through their (primarily intellectual) actions influenced their social environment by contributing to its formation or merely by testifying about it. The author analyses the relationship of certain key members of Slovenian political Catholicism to major ideological issues as they are portrayed in the "final historical narratives" (textbooks, monographs, journals, etc.) produced by these individuals. From the perspective of testimonies about the past, in the light of historical biographies, it is important to consider how and why the image of the individual changes.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2085075
This paper on Slovenia's local referendums deals with a basic paradox: Slovenia is one of the leading countries in terms of the number of national referendums, but at the same time it is grouped in the class of countries with a low rate of local referendums.
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The chapter in the book written by Gorazd Bajc (with the title: Anglo-Američani in fojbe [The Anglo-Americans and the foibe], pp. 297–325) represents the first indepth analysis of how the military, intelligence and political-diplomatic circles of Great Britain and the United States assessed the problem of "foibe". The author used the yet unknown primary Anglo-American sources from The National Archives (Kew-London) and National Archives and Records Administration (College Park, MD), testifying to how the allied officers on the field (especially in the regions of Trieste and Gorizia) perceived the violence allegedly carried out by Yugoslav authorities after the war. Their estimates show a discrepancy between the actual results of the research and between the old and new allegations of political propaganda.
COBISS.SI-ID: 259725312
Hannah Arendt’s project of analyzing the political in the era of the end of the political is discussed on two levels: first, as Arendt’s understanding the political “from the hermeneutical point of view”, i.e. as related to human “being-in-the world” (Human Condition); second, as her understanding it “from the performative point of view”, i.e. as a public personification, a masquerade (On Revolution). The question of how the political, which determines “human concerns”, or “human condition” renders the same human life in its private sphere as non-political and anti-political, is then discussed on that basis.
COBISS.SI-ID: 513096578
The question of the contemporaneity of Europe appears in the context of dialogue on the common European future, which, on the one hand is an achievement of the encounter of diverse cultural languages and, on the other, dictated through reflection on what is reestablishing the Europe of today as a world’s. Views on “opening the future” and “enabling development” cannot be mutually harmonized, since there is a lack of experience of contemporaneity in the jointing of horizons.
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