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Metapolitics – What is It?

Marijan Krivak

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What is metapolitics? This is the question which calls to account another one, more fundamental: what is ‘politics’? Politics is that what is missing.
General politisation on phenomenal-media level overcasts the fact that there is no real politics at all!
This article has emerged as a consequence of the author’s reading of a book Proces zapadu (A Trial to the West) by Croatian philosopher Mario Kopić, with indicative subtitle Metapolitical Essays, and tries to follow that very direction.
His book belongs to rare, therefore more precious efforts in our close environment - of »re-thinking« politics. According to him, metapolitical way of approaching mat terms is emphasized today by reflecting the development of Western society at the break of a new millennium.
Slavoj Žižek is detecting the place of metapolitics. He finds it in a framework of so called Marxist (i.e. utopian-socialist) paradigm. Therefore, political conflict is completely uncovered. But, unfortunately, just as a theatre of shadows, where the events are played which real place is on the Other scene (the one of economical processes).
According to Dean Komel, metapolitics is that which follows from metaphysics as culture of philosophy, in transgressing into philosophy of culture.
Finally, A Trial to the West must end with a call for its roots: culture and philosophy. That is possible with a help of metapolitics. This metapolitics is a code-name for metaphysics. The world we live in, according the author of the article, is not a physical phenomenon, cause then it would be unbearable.
It is metaphysical, if it has a sense at all, and if the human is transgressive being, who longs for justice, truth and freedom.

Ključne riječi

metapolitics; A Trial to the West; Mario Kopić, Slavoj Žižek; Dean Komel; culture and philosophy

Hrčak ID:

202163

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/202163

Datum izdavanja:

1.9.2005.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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