Agonija Evrope
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- Author: Radica Bogdan
- Publisher: Geca Kon
- Availability: Sold out
- Condition: Very good
- Code: 27712
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Agonija Evrope
Radica Bogdan
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Bogdan Radica: Agony of Europe
Very rare. The letters for the cover were made by Mihajlo S. Petrov. Printed in Dragoslav Gregorić Printing House, in Belgrade, March 1940. The author dedicated the book to Svetomir Lazarević
First edition: Printed in Belgrade by the publisher Geca Kon in Cyrillic under the title "The Agony of Europe: Conversations and Meetings"
The book contains 24 conversations and essays that Radica, working as a newspaper correspondent and diplomat at the League of Nations in Geneva, conducted during the 1930s with leading European intellectuals, philosophers and writers. [1, 2]
Through these interviews, the author analyzes the downfall of liberal democracy and the unstoppable rise of the totalitarian ideologies of that era - fascism, Nazism and Bolshevism.
of Nazism)
- Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish philosopher)
- José Ortega y Gasset (Spanish thinker, author of Rebellion of the Masses)
- Benedetto Croce (Italian idealist philosopher and historian)
- Crisis of Values: The book functions as a "diary of observations" and a diagnosis of a Europe that is losing its humanist identity and heading towards catastrophe.
- Intellectual panorama: The work offers a fascinating insight into the thoughts of the elite who had a premonition that the "old continent" was in its death throes (agony) before the onslaught of barbarism.
- Oppositions of the system: The conflict between individualism and collectivist totalitarianism is emphasized, with special reference to how nationalism destroys European universalism. [
Today this work is considered a unique and extremely rare chronicle of European pre-war history from the pen of a Croatian author and essential reading for understanding the intellectual history of the 20th century
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- Author: Radica Bogdan
- Publisher: Geca Kon
- Year of publication:1940
- Place of publication:Beograd
- Pages:542
- Dimensions:16x22 cm
- Script:Gothic script
- Condition:Very good
- Binding:Hardcover
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