Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 42 No. 3, 2022.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi42304
Utopia in the Philosophy of Gordana Bosanac
Ivana Skuhala Karasman
orcid.org/0000-0001-7769-5259
; Institut za filozofiju, Ulica grada Vukovara 54, HR–10000 Zagreb
Abstract
In this article, I give an overview of the Croatian philosopher Gordana Bosanac’s (Varaždin, 1936 – Zagreb, 2019) understanding of utopia. She deals with the topic of utopia in two of her books, Utopia and the Inaugural Paradox. A Contribution to the Philosophical-Political Debate (2005) and The Name of Utopia. Yugoslav Self-Government as a Played Out Project of Emancipation (2015). The second book can be considered a continuation of the first. For better understanding and review, I first present the theses from Bosanac’s first book and then those from the second. Apart from dealing with the concept of utopia in her books, Bosanac deals equally thoroughly with the concepts of inauguration, inauguration paradox, socialism, communism and self-management. Beginning with the concept of utopia itself, she takes the reader from Thomas More through other Renaissance utopians, then Marx, Engels, and Bloch, to anti-utopianism.
Keywords
Gordana Bosanac; utopia; inauguration; inaugural paradox; socialism; communism; self-government
Hrčak ID:
295485
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Publication date:
16.11.2022.
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