From Self-Management to Alienation: Praxis, the Ljubljana School, and Yugoslav Philosophy
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Socialist Yugoslavia produced two internationally renowned schools of philosophy in the period following the Second World War: the Praxis school in the 1970s and the Ljubljana School in the 1980s, which is today recognized as one of the most important schools of continental philosophy in the world. The lecture will focus on the relationship between, and the conceptual differences separating, the two schools, placing particular emphasis on the figure of Zagorka Golubović, the only woman among the members of Praxis. After losing her position at the University of Belgrade on account of her “dissidence,” Golubović spent some time working in the United States at the invitation of Richard Bernstein. In this context, the lecture will explore the connection between Yugoslavia’s original socio-economic model of self-management and the principle of alienation as a constitutive principle of thought. RSVP here. Bara Kolenc is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stanford. She is currently working on the project “Re-Thinking Alienation Through the Lens of Yugoslav Social Philosophy: Zagorka Golubović and American Pragmatism.”
