scholarly journals Borders, De-Borderization and Migration Narratives in Hungary

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-143
Author(s):  
Teodor Gyelník

The events and processes of the recent decades drive us to awake from the hypnotic illusion of the ‘end of history’. The ‘return of history’ is not only a necessary step that has to be taken, but it is ontologically inevitable. Blinded by the mobile army of metaphors, metonyms and anthropomorphisms, we need to see that the processes of the 21st century are no different from the old politics which were recorded in history, thus it is unavoidable to think within the ‘dialectics of Old and New’. Globalization, relativization of values, removal of borders and the re-narration of borders in previously unseen areas lead us to an existential zero point. Borders play significant self-determining and self-definition role in our life and society, thus their relocation, reorientation and blurring of their meaning is a question that has to be analysed and closely watched. Together with the narration of borders, the narration of security plays major role. Migration and the question of open, permeable borders have become one of the most important security narrations of our everyday life.

Napredak ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-140
Author(s):  
Srđan Perišić

The author analyzes the geopolitical restoration of Russia during the first two decades of the 21st century. The starting point is that liberalism and globalism have been trying for four decades to remove all forms of geopolitical differences from the public, societal and political sphere, i.e. all cultural, national, religious, ideological, state variances. This was labelled the end of history. However, despite this, for the last 20 years we have witnessed a return of history. The author shows that the return of history is reflected in the return of Russia to the world stage not only as a great power, but by a general geopolitical renewal in Russia itself. The paper gives three descriptions and analyses of that return. First, the paper analyzes the character of the new Russia. The geopolitical identity and certain geopolitical practices of Russia are examined. Second, the ideological character of the Russian return is considered, which as such represents an alternative to Western liberalism and globalization. Third, the doctrinal determinants of the security and military dimensions of Russia's geopolitics are analyzed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 406-420
Author(s):  
Patrycjusz Pająk

The bitterness of suspended time. "Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh" This article discusses the Croatian film "Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh", directed by Ante Babaja (1971). The film is a response to the unrealised vision of a communist utopia. It is set on a Dalmatian island during the era of real socialism. According to communist propaganda, real socialism is the fulfilled utopia, meaning the end of history. In Babaja’s interpretation, the end of history does not involve the victory of communism, but rather its defeat and the return of Catholic tradition as the only unquestionable value making sluggish, socialist everyday life possible to accept, since it gives sense and order to an axiologically degraded and alienated world.In this insular world, it is the traditional past and not the communist future which becomes an eternal present. Remaining outside of time among the relics of tradition is the only option in a situation where communist progress fails to produce the desired results. Tradition does not promise a new wonderful world and does not fix the current world, but it ensures balance between its contradictions. This situation leads to bitterness, since accepting it requires the acceptance of its dark side. The ironic attitude towards the Catholic tradition which is predominant in the first half of the film, turns into bitter affirmation of tradition in the second. Gorycz zatrzymanego czasu. "Mirra, kadzidło i złoto"Artykuł poświęcony jest chorwackiemu filmowi "Mirra, kadzidło i złoto", wyreżysero­wanemu przez Ante Babaję w 1971 roku. Film stanowi odpowiedź na niespełnioną wizję utopii komunistycznej. Jego akcja rozgrywa się na dalmatyńskiej wyspie w okresie realnego socjalizmu. Wedle komunistycznej propagandy realny socjalizm to urzeczywistniona utopia, co oznacza, że historia się skończyła. W interpretacji Babai koniec historii nie wiąże się ze zwycięstwem komunizmu, lecz z jego klęską i powrotem tradycji katolickiej, która okazuje się jedyną niekwestionowaną wartością, ponieważ gnuśną, socjalistyczną codzienność czyni możliwą do zaakceptowania. Zapewnia poczucie istnienia jakiegoś porządku i sensu w świecie aksjologicznie zdegradowanym i wyobcowanym.W wyspiarskim świecie to nie przyszłość, ale przeszłość staje się wieczną teraźniejszością. Trwanie poza czasem pośród reliktów tradycji jest jedynym wyjściem w sytuacji, w której komu­nistyczny postęp nie przynosi pożądanych rezultatów. Tradycja nie obiecuje nowego wspaniałego świata ani nie naprawia świata zastanego, ale zapewnia równowagę między rozdzierającymi go sprzecznościami. Ten stan rzeczy wywołuje gorycz, ponieważ jego akceptacja oznacza też koniecz­ność akceptacji jego mrocznej strony. Przeważająca w pierwszej połowie filmu ironiczna postawa wobec tradycji katolickiej w jego drugiej połowie przechodzi w gorzką afirmację tej tradycji.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
pp. 291-297
Author(s):  
Alejandro Sánchez Berrocal

How is it possible that "socialism" is a living idea today? How does it push us to a review of its complex heritage and an inquiry into its perspectives? What is the old and the new that socialism implies for the 21st century? After decades of neoliberal counterrevolution, the twilight of "really existing communism", the stories about the "end of history" and the (supposed) entry into a "post-political" and "post-ideological" era, it may come as a surprise that the questions with which We open this review continue to constitute theoretical problems of the first order. And yet the son.


Derrida Today ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Anne Alombert

The aim of this paper is to question the significance of Derrida's deconstruction of the concepts of subject and history. While ‘postmodernity’ tends to be characterized by philosophical critique as the ‘liquidation of the subject’ or the ‘end of history’, I attempt to show that Derrida's deconstruction of ‘subjectivity’ and ‘historicity’ is not an elimination or destruction of these concepts, but an attempt to transform them in order to free them from their metaphysical-teleological presuppositions. This paper argues that this transformation, which begins in Derrida's and continues in Stiegler's texts, leads to the notions of ‘psycho-social individuation’ and ‘doubly epokhal redoubling’. I maintain that such notions ‘supplement’ the metaphysical concepts of subject and history by forcing a reconsideration of the technical conditions of psychic individuation and the technological conditions of ‘epochality’.


2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cary Carson

Abstract Are historic sites and house museums destined to go the way of Oldsmobiles and floppy disks?? Visitation has trended downwards for thirty years. Theories abound, but no one really knows why. To launch a discussion of the problem in the pages of The Public Historian, Cary Carson cautions against the pessimistic view that the past is simply passéé. Instead he offers a ““Plan B”” that takes account of the new way that learners today organize information to make history meaningful.


Author(s):  
Will Kynes

The introduction sets this study in the context of the three recent critical approaches it combines: (1) “metacritical” studies of biblical criticism that identify and critically analyze the “historically effected consciousness” that inspired a particular approach to biblical interpretation; (2) “biographies” of texts that examine their origins and effects; and (3) “end- of” books, which, following the lead of Fukuyama’s “The End of History?” (1989), argue, among other things, that old concepts may fade away as perceptions change. The role of genre methodology in perpetuating the Wisdom Literature category and now in challenging it is introduced. Finally, terminological distinctions are made between the Wisdom Literature category and Wisdom as a genre, the Wisdom Schools associated with it, and wisdom as a concept.


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