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Croatian Political Science Review, Vol. 35 No. 1, 1998.

Original scientific paper

INADEQUACY OF DEMOCRACY

Zvonko Posavec ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

The author critically analyses Plessner's views on the lack of a clear idea of the state in German tradition as well as the consequences of that for its development in the 20th century. The author claims that it is not so much a question of the non-existence of the idea of the state as of the non-existence of a democratic social stratum that would have prevented the authoritarian and later totalitarian developments. He also rejects the interpretation of history as meaningful, goal-oriented processes, since they presuppose a philosophical knowledge about the goals and purposes of an inimitable historical development, the assumption which today cannot be methodologically vindicated by any historian.

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Hrčak ID:

33561

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/33561

Publication date:

3.3.1998.

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