Review article
https://doi.org/10.31337/oz.74.5.2
The Central Modernist Question: Programmatic Goals and the Broader Intellectual Context of the Journal Život
Tadija Milikić
; Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies Zagreb
Abstract
This paper presents an insight into the programmatic goals and broader intellectual context of the journal Život (“Life”) which was published continuously for a quarter of a century until the end of World War II (1919–1944) and which, after twenty–six years, was reissued in 1971 under a new name, namely, Obnovljeni Život. In the paper there is a concise presentation of the goals of the journal based on a brief programmatic text titled “What We Want” which can be found at the very end of the first volume. Then there is given an insight into the realisation of the same goals based on selected articles and essays from the first year of publication of the journal with its ten issues. Finally, in the central and most important sections of the paper, an insight is given into the broader movements of thought of the human spirit such as nominalism, the empirical sciences, neo–scholastics, Thomism and modernism in the historical context of which the journal Život appears and acts as a creative expression of the intelligence of the faithful and as a recognisable sign of a time in which one lived in the light and in the shadow of the central modernist question.
Keywords
Život; scientific journal; nominalism; empirical sciences; neo–scholastics; neo–Thomism; modernism
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237788
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Publication date:
12.5.2020.
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