Phanomenologische Ontologie des Sozialen

Phanomenologische Ontologie des Sozialen Edited by Holger Zaborowski, Željko Radinković, Rastko Jovanov DescriptionContentImpressum The texts collected in Phänomenologische Ontologie des Sozialen [The Phenomenological Ontology of the Social] deal with topics of situational identity and their significance for the self-understanding of individuals, for society and political action, as well as with communicative aspects of identity, narrative,…

Abrégé de métapolitique

Abrégé de métapolitique Alain Badiou DescriptionContentImpressum In his Abrégé de métapolitique, Alain Badiou affirms metapolitics as the opposite of political philosophy. Political philosophies have the tendency to consider the state as “an element of the investigation of politics as thought”. The key question is how to think democracy in its independence from the state (“the…

New generation of Life Champions has been launched

On January 26, the second generation of the project “Creating Life Champions”, whose piloting began in 2018, was officially launched in Belgrade. The event, opened with a press conference, was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia, from which the project coordinator – Development Center for Youth comes, while His Excellency,…

The Ambassador of the United States of America, Christopher Hill, visited the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory

On Friday, January 27, 2023, the ambassador of the United States of America in Serbia, Mr. Christopher Hill visited the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade, on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Ambassador, director of the Institute, Dr. Gazela Pudar Draško, and ShoahLab coordinator, Dr. Milovan Pisarri,…

The New Issue of Philosophy and Society (33/4) has been published

This issue of Philosophy and Society features two thematic sections: The Violence of War and Global Ethics and Politics of Care: Tracing Gendered Vulnerabilities. Moreover, this issue also includes original articles on “the monster dilemma,” structural criticism, the political and world-historical courage in Hegel’s philosophy, historicism and architecture, the paradigm of victimhood, and Eurocommunism from a Yugoslav perspective.

CFP: Conference “Women in the Holocaust”

The Women in the Holocaust is an inaugural conference of WHISC – Women in the Holocaust International Study Center of the The Moreshet Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Center – Givat Haviva, Israel, organized in partnership with the ShoahLab: Holocaust Studies Laboratory IFDT and NGO Haver Serbia in Belgrade, Serbia 10–12 October, 2023.…

Identity, Partisanship, Polarization

Identity, Partisanship, Polarization – How democratically elected politicians get away with autocratizing their country? Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Office in Belgrade and the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade have the pleasure of inviting you to the presentation of the study and expert debate on how increasing polarization threatens democracy.   Recently, this statement has…

Politics of Enmity

This volume attempts contribute to the discussion about the nation, nationalism, and its inevitable attendant, enmity. In what sense have friendship and hostility gained new meanings, and what would those meanings be? Does nation-building always involve a category of a common enemy one has to fight, thereby developing the Politics of Enmity?