Original scientific paper

Constructing a Happy City-State. In memoriam Heda Festini

Nenad Miščević ; University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Abstract

The paper honors Heda Festini; it’s first part contains author’s personal memories of Heda. The central part of the paper addresses a favorite author of Heda Festini, Franjo Petrić, and his Utopia The Happy CityState. It then places the utopian construction on the map of contemporary understanding of political theorizing. Utopias, like the one due to Petrić, result from thought-experimenting; in contrast to purely epistemic thought-experiments they are geared to “guidance”, as Petrić puts it, namely advice giving and persuading

Keywords

Franjo Petrić; The Happy City-State; Renaissance Utopia; ideal theorizing; political thought experiments

Hrčak ID:

253627

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/253627

Publication date:

5.12.2019.

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