Preliminary communication
Against the current – Vinko Krišković as a political philosopher
Enis Zebić
orcid.org/0000-0002-3235-2591
Abstract
Professor of administrative law at the University of Zagreb, politician, essayist and first Croatian member of the Royal Shakespeare Society Vinko Krišković (Senj 1861 - Zurich 1952) dealt in some of his works with the topic of political philosophy. He was an advocate of liberal positions inspired by English authors and English political practice. Krišković is relatively unknown in the Croatian political and intellectual history, i.a. because he opposed all the political options present in Yugoslavia and Croatia in the first half of the 19th century (integral Yugoslavism, Peasant Party populism, totalitarian Ustasha movement, Yugoslav Communism). The author offers possible answers to the questions to what extent did Krišković find the arguments needed to resist these political options in philosophy and whether his case is in any measure relevant for the current issues and controversies.
Keywords
liberalism; Edmund Burke; Croatia; Yugoslavia; totalitarianism; culture
Hrčak ID:
150063
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2015.
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