Personal attitude

18.march 2026 Alexander Weisner

About the traveling band of obsenara

All populism leads to totalitarianism or single-mindedness, and all totalitarianism is populist. However, populism becomes impotent when it is unmasked and demystified, when the fraud is exposed to the public light and presented from different perspectives. The prosecutor's office and professional media contribute the most to that unmasking and elucidation

In memoriam: Jurgen Habermas, philosopher

18.march 2026 Đorđe Vukadinović

“The Last Philosopher”

Perhaps the last "Great European" left with Jürgen Habermas. But certainly the last great philosopher and intellectual of the twentieth century

Freedom of speech

21.January 2026 Nemanja Rujevic

Everything can be said, but since?

In the new book Fear, the German philosopher Richard David Precht summarizes everything in the modern, fragile world that limits freedom of speech - from excitement on social networks to semi-censorship in mainstream media. Although Serbia is in a different galaxy than Preht's audience, some points apply universally

Interview: Relja Dražić, translator and publisher

11.December 2025 Ivan Milenkovic

The man may be becoming redundant

Austrian literature holds me in its gravitational field with its courage and aesthetically extraordinarily powerful ability to productively confront the myth of itself as "Hitler's victim".

Eight hundred years since the birth of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)

22.October 2025 Jaroslav Pecnik

The philosopher who shaped our reality

The novelty of the ethical conception of Thomas Aquinas is also contained in the fact that there is also a place in it for "non-Christian", lay ethics that (attract) man to the good, but by itself is not sufficient for the realization of eternal salvation. For that, God's grace is needed, which perfects the "theological" virtues: faith as a supernatural gift, hope that carries us with optimism and energy, and love, the greatest and most beautiful gift that God gave to man.

Philosophy

21.August 2025 Katarina Đurđević

Media and totalitarianism

Vincent F. Hendricks and Mes Westergaard, Lost reality. Attention markets, wrong information and manipulation, translated by Milan Perić, McMilan, Belgrade 2024.

Interview: Alpar Loshonc, philosopher

02.July 2025 Ivan Milenkovic

Europe cannot be understood without ordoliberalism

In 2012, Barack Obama sent his finance minister to reason with his German colleague who, against the over-indebted Greeks, emphasized the moral importance of suffering pain in the short term, for the sake of integrity in the long term. The persuasion failed. In any case, one cannot understand the creation of the EU without ordoliberalism, as well as Germany's position in Europe. In fact, even the XNUMXth century cannot be interpreted without it

Interview: Predrag Krstić, philosopher

26.march 2025 Ivan Milenkovic

Philosophy is a dam against the invasion of non-opinions

"The current student movement, if I'm not mistaken, is for the most part the realization of negative engagement. It stands up against obvious lies, injustice and lack of freedom without declaring itself the owner of truth, justice and freedom and, equally important, without agreeing to political settlements around it. It is anti-political in the sense that we, burdened by 'politics as fate', cannot understand at all: it is not a question of who will rule - when the question is posed in this way, the answer already implies absolute power - but to build institutions that will make autocracy impossible and enable the change of power without blood"

Interview: Novica Milić

20.march 2025 Ivan Milenkovic

To write to live

One good musician, or painter, or writer, or thinker is worth more than all the main committees of all the parties, all the members of parliament, all the ministers in some imaginary government. They are - or should be - interchangeable. Artists and thinkers by their gift and type of intelligence are not. Culture is art, hence the art of life

Studies

08.May 2024. Katarina Đurđević

Is there life without death?

Robocap and movie doubles(Filmski centar Srbije, Belgrade, 2023) Goran Gavrić, with the help of several films, which can mostly be classified as science fiction, uses "fantasy" in an effort to see the fusion of living and non-living matter, modern technology and man, starting not only from problems philosophy of spirit, but also ethics and philosophy of law

Permanent cold treatment

14.September 2023 Ivan Milenkovic

In the new issue: Philosophy and other waste

The reasons for the government's negligence, even hostility to philosophy, are clear and least interesting. Philosophy creates free people, and any authoritarian structure is afraid of learned and free people. However, the question of where so many philosophers and humanistic scientists would be employed, what would they do, can be made legitimate? This is a weak question, however

Permanent cold treatment

13.September 2023 Ivan Milenkovic

Philosophy and other rubbish

The reasons for the government's negligence, even hostility to philosophy, are clear and least interesting. Philosophy creates free people, and any authoritarian structure is afraid of learned and free people. However, the question of where so many philosophers and humanistic scientists would be employed, what would they do, can be made legitimate? This is a weak question, however

Women

05.July 2023 Sonja Ciric

What is the cost of knowing you are right

"The story of Ksenia Atanasijević is the story of the suffering of a thinking individual who sticks to her moral principles. Because, if you are principled, talented and wise, you will either be forgotten, or you will be sharpened by the leveling blade of untalented petty citizens"

Interview: Professor Alpar Loshonc, corresponding member of SANU

30.November 2022 Jelena Jorgacevic

Only truth remains against power

"Our eternal dilemma is whether an intellectual loses his identity if he offers services to the authorities, that is, whether he then ceases to be an intellectual. This problem was thought to have gone away, but it hasn't. And the sirens that seduce intellectuals are more cunning today than before, the mechanisms are more invisible. And an intellectual, especially one who is no stranger to at least a small dose of cynicism, easily finds an alibi. Today, the chances of becoming a quasi-intellectual are extraordinary."

Interview: Zoran Dimić, philosopher

16.November 2022 Ivan Milenkovic

Getting out of Paleolithic stress

"Turning your head away from negative processes - look, in our country it's as if nothing happens on the public stage, except court and tabloid intrigues - will certainly not lead to the problems disappearing. On the contrary, the problems will rapidly metastasize. There is no doubt that for the last ten years we have been witnessing a systematic neglect of philosophy and the humanities. For decades, they have been unreservedly calling for the forcing of natural sciences, technology, the IT sector, dual education, etc. Now we are amazed at how extreme attitudes in all spheres of life "suddenly" multiplied and swelled in our societies. However, even the philosophers, focused on their 'private academic problems', did not put up a worthy resistance and are still basking in their 'white-haired tower'."