Summary
Vlatko Sekulović: Fear and Freedom
The book Fear and Freedom brings the deepest, most hidden essence of human nature to the surface of everyday life in which fear of others and oneself is the cause of unfreedom. The fear of death is the primary force of giving up freedom, also expressed as the fear of life. In political communities dominated by totalitarian ideologies, fear has probably acquired ontological properties contrary to its essence, becoming a force of self-destruction instead of an urge for introspection, confrontation and liberation. The trauma of the breakup of Yugoslavia is a constant of the dynamics of destruction, regression, individual and collective tragedies, and the history of the absurd efforts of nationalism to manipulate fears, anxieties and rejection, to establish movement in vicious circles that, instead of unraveling and liberating, leads to their damnation.
From the review of prof. Dr. Nikola Samardžić
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