Philosophy

Paranoja in paranoidno sta koncepta, ki sta se v zadnjih desetletjih osvobodila kliničnega okvira in prešla v publicistično, humanistično in družboslovno rabo. V prispevku poskušamo na novo koncipirati in opredeliti pojem kolektivnega »paranoidnega mišljenja« in njegovih manifestacij v obliki paranoidnih teorij oziroma ideologij. Iz zgodovinskih primerov paranoidnih ideologij – s poudarkom na italijanskem fašizmu in nemškem nacizmu – razberemo vsem skupne paranoidne poteze,
genezo, strukturo in vsebino. Naprej razvijemo nov historiografski pristop k tako imenovanemu Sonderweg vprašanju in pokažemo nekaj možnosti njegove aplikacije v drugih disciplinah. Hevristični koncept paranoidnega mišljenja omogoča prepoznavanje za demokratične družbe najnevarnejših ideologij in nakazuje možnost, kako jim učinkovito nasprotovati.

V pričujočem članku skušamo vzporejati Foucaultovo teorijo z nekaterimi temeljnimi problemi iz zgodovine in teorije zgodovinopisja. Foucaultov pristop je v tem kontekstu lahko zelo uporaben, saj se zoperstavlja tako zgodovinskim univerzalijam kot tudi instrumentalizaciji zgodovinopisja. Posebej se osredotočamo na vprašanje ali naj bo zgodovinopisje zgolj resnica o preteklosti ali naj vsebuje tudi nasvete in priporočila za sedanjost. Analiza nas pripelje do skrajno skeptične metode zgodovinopisja, kar v praksi implicira dvom in konstantno samoizpraševanje samih temeljev zgodovinopisja.

Paper introduces the classification of "White-trash" movies and discusses their relationship with American Dream, capitalism and social realism. It argues for a devaluation of values, which produces indistinctiveness between happy and successful and "trashy" life.  :)

In the article I try to explicate reasons for the popularity of the TV-series The Handmaid's Tale – especially in the year 2017. Totalitarian system, as it is presented in the series, is namelly in acordance with the realisation of ideals of the right-pole of the new cultural struggles, between liberal feminism, political correctness and campus culture on the one hand and transgression, chauvinism and radical freeedom on the other. Those ideas, that are often connected to the alt-right movement, present a dangerous bond between progressivism and conservativism and are therefore atracting the masses. While comparing the series and contemporary political events, we try to explicate that the main problem is already present in liberal postmodernism, which immanently strives towards its destruction in the totalitarian social system. In  the series, this is most obvious in the dichotomy between the gaze of the main protagonist and the all-inclusive system, in which she is captured.

KEYWORDS: The Handmaid's Tale, revolution, transgression, sexual difference, totalitarianism

The initial problem of the article is connected to Nietzsche's tendency to surpass morality. How is it possible to follow this gesture? It seems to be a problem that every rejection of some specific image of morality is necessarily done in the form of some other morality or in the form of uninterested knowledge (which is for Nietzsche just a sort of masking of morality). We connect this problem with Deleuze's question: how is it possible to reject the instance of judgment without judging it and without rejecting the principle of selection? Through Deleuze's interpretation of Nietzsche (which tries to connect the power of selection with the dividing between active and reactive forces) we develop a double meaning of »hierarchy« in Nietzsche's thought: on the one hand, everything that rules is something per se reactive, but on the other hand Nietzsche is against total equalisation. We have to exclude dominant morality through selection, but not in the form of some other morality. This implies resistance against the very form (and not specific content!) of morality – resistance against morality as “the habit”. Through Nietzsche's division between “primal masters” and “average men of dominant habit”, we try to explicate that Nietzsche's affirmation is oriented towards singular, ungregarious, what is in the end also connected to his thought of eternal return.