Summary
Dejan Jović: Resistance of intellectuals: Representing the unrepresented - opposing the powerful
"Dejan Jović questions the relationship between critical intelligence and national identity, the role of intellectuals, the idea of engaged political science, the fate of social sciences in the twenty-first century, the global attack on the enlightened foundations of the liberal tradition, forgetting, reinterpreting or rejecting anti-fascism, etc. (...) Jović is writing a book that is partly his personal history because he is writing a scientific paper about his unsuspecting In this way, the book becomes a combination of intellectual history and political science that has not yet appeared in our political science. (…) The story of Jovan Mirić is also a story about the reasons for the collapse of socialist Yugoslavia, so that Jović creates a very clear narrative in which he starts with the theoretical accounts of Gramsci, Benda and Said, in order to apply to him important intellectuals like Matvejević to which Mirić will become a kind of Yugoslav/Croatian equivalent of Said. (…) Professor Mirić's thoughts, scientific work and personal fate are part of a larger narrative about the meaning of critical political science and the need for critical intellectuals. The question of the fate and role of intellectuals is meant in the context of what the author recognizes as an attack on the foundations of liberalism. As the contemporary cultural war is waged between the anti-enlightenment left and the illiberal right. the culture of canceling or canceling works in the attack on intellectuals, regardless of which side it comes from."
Prof. Dr. Zoran Kurelić
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