The paper addresses the problem of publishing in the English language by researchers from other language areas, above all, by those from the former socialist “Eastern bloc” countries. Historically ...speaking, the problem became gradually acute after the social changes in 1989, when social changes also instigated the changes of institutions of research and education. These changes were based on the notion of internationalisation. The paper addresses three main components of the problem applying the appropriate methodology to discern each of them. The explanation of the first component, which combines the historical method and the critical theory approach, points to the system of compulsory publishing in English in a highly competitive international research environment. In it the co-operative “model” of the mutual recognition by scholars, as was suggested by St. Augustin in his “irenic” vision of epistemic community, cannot exist. The second main component is revealed through a loose application of deconstructive reading. The inception of semiology, which was prevalently formulated in the French language, was followed by the philosophical repudiation of the importance of linguistics above all in social sciences and humanities. Within this framework the difference between two philosophical paradigms – Anglo-Saxon and continental – emerged in a new form. This is still visible in the glitches of transferring the meaning from one culture and language to the other in English as lingua franca. The third component is viewed through the hermeneutical approach, notably by Paul Ricoeur, who highlighted the role of translation. In his vision, a translation encompasses far more than just a transfer from one language to another. The notion of “untranslatability” transposes the problem to the level of intercultural communication. At the same time this does not justify, in Ricoeur’s words, any insistence on “self-sufficiency as a core ‘value’ of every nationalism and cultural exclusivism”. It seems that this contradiction remained unsolved so far.
Še neizdelani, nedokončani, neverificirani zgodovinski spomin na šestdeseta leta 20. stoletja, v katerih se je po Badiouju primeril tudi zadnji prelomni dogodek v novejši zgodovini, vsebuje evidence ...o zahtevah po spremembah v izobraževanju. Pogled na ta del dogajanj šestdesetih in sedemdesetih let, tako kot pogled na zapletene politične, kulturne in družbene dogodke časa, zastirajo ?kultne? dekontekstualizirane medijske podobe hipijevskega gibanja, rock glasbenih dogodkov in fantazmatskih pripovedi o srečni generaciji. Petdeseta obletnica emblematičnega leta 1968 pa lahko služi kot signal za novo dekonstrukcijo nedvomno prelomnega obdobja in njegovih družbenih učinkov. V tem širokem okviru se postavljajo vprašanja v zvezi z izobraževanjem na vseh ravneh, pri čemer so bile številne pobude za novo vlogo izobraževanja iz šestdesetih in sedemdesetih let kasneje dejansko zatrte ali cenzurirane - zlasti po tem, ko se je uveljavila neoliberalno neokonservativna preobrazba globalnega sistema. Reforma visokega šolstva v ZDA in v Evropi je v šestdesetih in sedemdesetih letih bila bojno polje, v katerem sta se postavili druga proti drugi - po Habermasovi interpretaciji - tehnokratska in humanistična paradigma. Čeprav se je večina konfliktov v polju izobraževanja odvijala na univerzah, pa so nastajale mnoge nove izobraževalne ideje za demokratično, svobodno in dostopno učenje na vseh ravneh. Tako vedno znova vznikajo iz pozabe imena izobraževalnih gurujev tistega časa kot, denimo, Illicha, Freireja in drugih. Danes je sicer mogoče zanesljivo reči, da so bile následek pretresov pred petdesetimi leti preobrazbe družboslovja in humanistike, ki so bile povezane s socialnimi gibanji, kot so feminizem, okoljske pobude ter prakse alternativnih življenjskih slogov, oblikovale pa so se tudi nove oblike ?tradicionalnih? razrednih konfliktov. V tem članku glede na ta kontekst obravnavam kritične refleksije časa in njegovih domnevnih emancipacijskih učinkov po koncu intenzivnih dogajanj, zanimajo me predvsem Lascheve kritike na eni strani pomanjkljivih revolucionarnih konceptov in že vidnih nasprotnih reakcij institucionalnih agensov, ki so se kazale že pred odkritim prodorom neoliberalizma.
Stanley Cavell was hardly known to me before I met him in person. And then I wasgenuinely astounded about how, until then in my own pursuits in philosophy to come to terms with the (in)famous ...discrepancies and differences between the Continental and Anglo-American philosophy, I had somehow managed to miss his contributions.
This paper examines the historical and social context of Filip Robar-Dorin's film Ovni in mamuti (Rams and Mammoths, 1985), which revealed ethnic tensions in Slovenia at a critical time before the ...demise of communism and the looming break-up of multiethnic Yugoslavia. Robar-Dorin's film subversively reveals the ideology of national identity, and therefore does not represent a mirror for Slovenians to see themselves as they would prefer to. Instead, it is a film in which they are compelled not to miss the gaze of the other. The redefined Slovenian national identity as a notion of democracy before the process of significant social and political changes had begun. However, the success of both Robar-Dorin's film and the political alternative was mitigated significantly in later political events.
If there is a distinctive trait of European cinema, it could be seen within an attitude towards the category of identity in most representative and intellectually challenging feature films. The very ...notion of identity opens a field where we encounter a number of relevant meanings as far as films are concerned. The paper argues that there are common features between different approaches to identity in the European cinema in different periods. The notion of identity concerns a number of its enunciations that touch upon philosophical subjectivity, psychological subject, an ethnic entity, the political agent, and so forth. All these different aspects of identity, which naturally are, in most cases (but not necessarily so) inscribed in characters, are manifested in films from different periods of European cinema. Modernist movements of the 1960s and 1970s both in Western Europe (as in the French 'new wave' or young German cinema) and Eastern Central Europe (especially Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia) addressed the theme of identity in a manner that could be read as ideologically subversive. After the political turmoil in 1989, that changed the map of Europe, the theme of identity emerges in a new context.