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A Contribution to the Study of Interwar Left Intelligentsia

Božo Kovačević ; IRO Globus, Zagreb

Abstract

The author investigates some of the conflicts between left wing intellectuals in interwar Yugoslavia. These conflicts are about the relation between philosophy and the natural sciences, about Marx’ method in Capital and about the relation between dialectic materialism and psychoanalysis. The author suggests that these disputes, beyond doubt, belonged to their contemporary European context. On one side there was the dogmatic orientation of the Third International whose domination after the revolution has brought upon the provincialization of Yugoslav left-wing thought, and on the other side the unorthodox currents of the left having appeared again after the 1950’s. But having forgotten their predecessors, they often exhausted themselves in new disputes discovering what had already been achieved.

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Hrčak ID:

155701

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/155701

Publication date:

31.12.1987.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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