In A Re-invention of the Social, Lessenich tries to diagnose a crisis of the modern social state which, in the changed social conditions, finds itself more and more incapable of performing both old and new tasks, of pointing out the traps brought by particular proposals to its modernization, and of actively contributing to a critical re-thinking of its re-invention. Lessenich presents a historic overview of the development of the social state together with its theoretical foundations from various epochs, and he, above all, points out the structural changes which the social state underwent with the enforcement of the flexible capitalism.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 280561408The most important Slovene Hegelians, Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar, Zdravko Kobe, Gregor Moder, and Jure Simoniti published, under the editorship of the latter, each his own article in the renowned Sebian scientific jounal Philosophy and Society on the subject of a specifically Slovene reading of Hegel's philosophy, a thought which remains highly up-to-date both in practicing philosophical theory and in thinking modernity and its particular problems.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 59427938Roland Barthes' Mythologies are commonly considered as a birth place of nowadays popular and theoretically relevant "cultural studies" and present one of the most important and popular books of French structuralism. The book is divided in two parts. The first part is composed of 53 short columns which Barthes published between 1954 and 1956 in Les Lettres Nouvelles. The second part offers a theoretical superstructure of these case-studies. Barthes broadens the concept of "myth" which no longer means only traditional tales of gods and heroes, but all those unconscious and collective meanings in a society which are deducible from a semiotical process.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 281347072Žižek's Antigone not only re-positions Antigone as a revolutionary political figure, it alters the narrative of the play itself. Philosophers have long been preoccupied with Antigone - Kierkegaard, Hegel, Plato and Judith Butler to name but a few - but never before has a philosopher had the audacity to throw fidelity to the wind and re-write one of the most classic plays in the history of theatre. This lack of fidelity is, of course, precisely the point: not only is this a fascinating new play in its own right, it is a a political work calling into question our ideas of reverence to the canon, fidelity to the text and the notion of what 'faithfulness' might really mean.
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