Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.15.1.1
The Reception of Emmanuel Mounier in Croatia and the former Yugoslavia until 1965
Ivan Čulo
Abstract
The work reviews and analyzes the reception of the French Catholic philosopher and thinker, originator of personalistic movement, Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950) in Croatia and the former Yugoslavia until 1965.
It investigates the articles on Mounier, his own works as well as his influence on personalistic endeavours in the region. First brief echoes of his thought on Catholic and pronounced thinkers in Croatia can be found as early as in 1930-ies, however, without any relevant positive or negative criticism. Namely, Mounier’s tendency towards Marxism and socialism was not acceptable for them. Croatian emigrants adhered to such reserved sentiments towards Mounier. After the Second World War the only acceptable standpoint was Marxist and personalism, being considered as a ‘bourgeois philosophy”, was denied. The only exception was Mounier, to whom the post-war Marxists have an ambivalent attitude and after the break of Tito and Stalin in 1948, even a positive one. This is a philosophical-historical rarity, taking into account that Mounier was an apparent Catholic thinker. Hence reception of Mounier can be considered as a vanguard of the so-called convergence of Christianity and Marxism in 1960-ies but also as a political pragmatism of then Yugoslav official ideology.
Keywords
Emmanuel Mounier; personalism; reception in Croatia and ex-Yugoslavia; catholic thinkers; marxists
Hrčak ID:
177890
URI
Publication date:
21.3.2017.
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