Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 45 No. 1, 2025.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi45103
Pedagogical Thought of Mijo Mirković Through the Prism of “Philosophical Geography”
Alen Tafra
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; Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Fakultet za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti, Zagrebačka 30, HR–52100 Pula
Sažetak
Mijo Mirković is the greatest contemporary Croatian intellectual from Istria, whose complex work connects scientific interdisciplinarity with the public role of an intellectual and artistic creativity (alias Mate Balota). He approached philosophy as early as his doctoral dissertation, when in the analysis of the causes of the economic backwardness of the Slavic peoples, he applied cultural geography and philosophy of history, using a discourse that was later called Orientalist and Eurocentric. On the other hand, the opposite, almost Occidentalist discourse, projected onto Istrian microworlds, and elements of a kind of pedagogy of the oppressed often prevail in his essay and fiction. Only by considering the socio-historical conditions of the creation of the texts is it possible to adequately reconstruct not only Mirković’s pedagogical thought, as a probable point of his overall life practice, but also the meaning of the author’s ambivalences (rationalism-romanticism, liberalism-socialism, individualism-collectivism, West-East). With particular regard to its democratic and cosmopolitan potential, this paper aims to evaluate his thought from the perspective of the philosophy of education and public pedagogy.
Ključne riječi
Mijo Mirković; philosophy of history; orientalism; occidentalism; philosophy of education; Paulo Freire; public pedagogy; Istria
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332749
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Datum izdavanja:
27.6.2025.
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