Епистемолошка питања о филозофији, теорији и политици у граничним зонама модерности, постмодерне и савремености

• Published in: Srpska politička misao no. 3/Spec; pp. 37 - 52
• Main Author: Šuvaković, Miško
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Serbian
• Published: Институт за политичке студије 2016; Institute for Political Studies
• Subjects: Culture and social structure; Epistemology; Globalization; Governance; Political Philosophy; Political Theory; Politics; Recent History (1900 till today); society; antagonism; culture; modernity; contemporarity; difference; postmodern; transition
• ISSN: 0354-5989

The crisis of postmodern liberal pluralism after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, that is, following the end of the Cold War and the establishment of ‘global politics’ and domination of a single superpower and, more importantly, of a single economic and biotechnological political order, re-provoked possibilities for examining ‘politics’ and ‘the political’ as a significant response to the apparent weakness or absence of any kind of the political in the apparently apolitical or extra- political neoliberal technological practices of organising public and private everyday life in post- modernity. In postmodern and then globalised neoliberal society, politics has acquired the character of a techno- managerial cultural practice, moving from fundamental social, global questions to individual cultural as well as artistic activities in the domain of identity and representation in the everyday. A cynic might conclude that in globalised times, everything – meaning culture and art – is politicised, except politics itself, which is depoliticised. Therefore, in the 1990s and 2000s, it became important to invoke and reconstruct ‘politics’ and ‘the political’ in relation to politics as a form of sociality, as well as a form of organisation, governance, control, and implementation. At that moment, ‘politics as a practice within or across general sociality’ manifested a need or, even, desire for meta- theory as the organisation of the singular as opposed to the particular in relation to universal political knowledge and action, and traditionally, the meta- theory of ‘politics’ is philosophy.