Hrvatski su isusovci bili blizu vrha svjetske znanosti i imali važnu ulogu u hrvatskoj kulturi, a tako i u znanosti. Mnogi hrvatski isusovci zaslužni su za razvoj prirodnih znanosti. No uz one koji su sada poznati sigurno je da ima još mnogo onih kojima rad nije dosad izašao na vidjelo. Upravo zato bit će potrebno provesti još mnoga nova istraživanja kojima će biti upotpunjena naša znanja o prinosu hrvatskih isusovacaprirodnim znanostima. Pogledom u povijest možemo reći da su Hrvati nadograđivali svojim (...) znanstvenim spoznajama u području prirodnih znanosti kulturnu baštinu europske zajednice. U 18. stoljeću znanost se postupno institucionalizira, a u 19. stoljeću postavljaju se temelji za sustavno i moderno ulaganje u znanost. Početkom 20. stoljeća, odnosno 1905. godine, Albert Einstein uvodi nove ideje u fiziku, koje nalaze svoje sljedbenike i u Hrvatskoj. Ovdje izdvajamo i ističemo dvije žene koje su uz mnoge naše znanstvenike bile sljedbeniceteorije relativnosti.Zdenka pl. Makanec, udata Blašković objavila je radove: O relativnosti: I. Relativnost brzine, gibanja i energije ; O relativnosti: II. Relativnost vremena ; Prilog neeuklidskoj statici. Počeci L statike i rješenje dosadanjeg paradoksa .Mira Hercigonja objavila je radove: Prilog geometriji Lobačevskog: doktorski rad ; Boškovićevi pseudonimi ; Le tableau des nombres premiers ; Materijalna tačka uprostoru Lobačevskoga: 1. Varićakova pretpostavka .The Croatian Jesuits were in the forefront of world scientific developments, and had a majorrole in Croatian culture and science. Many Croatian Jesuits have made a significant contributionin the field of natural sciences. However,beside those who arealreadyfamous , thereareothers whose contributions have not been appreciateduntil now.Thus,thereis a need for new researchthat would add to our knowledge about the roleCroatianJesuitsplayed in field of natural sciences. History shows that Croatianscientists have contributedto the Europeancultural heritage also in the field of natural sciences. In the 18th century,sciencehad been gradually institutionalized, while in the 19th century,the bases for systematicandmodern scientific development had been formed. Atthe beginning of the 20th century,in1905,AlbertEinstein introducednew concepts into physics, and these new ideas found its followersalso in Croatia.Hereshould be paid a tribute to two women who, together with manyotherCroatianscientists, have been the followers of the theory of relativityZdenka Blašković publishedthe following works: O relativnosti: I. Relativnost brzine, gibanja i energije ; O relativnosti: II. Relativnost vremena ; Prilog neeuklidskoj statici. Počeci L statike i rješenje dosadanjegparadoksa: disertacija .Mira Hercigonja published the followingworks: Prilog geometriji Lobačevskog: doctoral thesis ; Boškovićevipseudonimi; Letableaudesnombres premiers ; Materijalnatačka u prostoru Lobačevskoga:1. Varićakovapretpostavka. (shrink)

Nova globalna politika – koja, između ostaloga, obuhvaća i multibirokracijsko donošenje odluka, unutar i između vladine i međunarodne birokracije, politiku što je pokreću transnacionalne snage i agencije, te nove oblike multinacionalne integracije među državama – stvorila je međunarodni »nadnacionalni« okvir, u kojem i preko kojega se redefiniraju prava i obveze, ovlasti i moći država. U tom slučaju liberalna država štiti, a ne propisuje, ona je neutralna. Državno je miješanje opravdano samo ukoliko ona treba zaštititi pojedince jedne od drugih, ili od (...) same vlasti. U svim drugim slučajevima država nelegitimno uzurpira prava pojedinaca i ograničava njihove slobode. Društvo slobodne konkurencije i »prisvajanja vlasništva« temelj je liberalizma, koji će u novijoj varijanti preuzeti neo-liberalizam pozicioniranjem kapitalističkog sustava ekonomije. Drugim riječima, minimalna država osigurava stabilni zakonski i regulativni okvir, tako da se pojedinci mogu baviti svojim poslom bez prekomjernoga uplitanja politike, što, dakako u globalnim okvirima, ima svoje posljedice.New global politics – which, among others, encompasses multibureaucratic decision making,within and between government and international bureaucracy, politics steered by transna­tional powers and agencies, as well as new forms of multinational integration between states– has created an international “above-national” frame, in which and through which, rightsand obligations are redefined, jurisdictions and rights of states. In this case the liberal stateprotects, but does not stipulate, she is neutral. Involvement of the state is justified only if sheneeds to protect individuals from each other or from the government itself. In all other casesthe state illegitimately usurps the rights of individuals and limits their freedoms. A society offree competition “seizing of ownership” is the foundation of liberalism that will in its newerform take over neo-liberalism by positioning the capitalist economic system. In other words,the minimal state secures a stable legal and regulative frame, so that individuals can deal withtheir business without excessive interference of politics, which, of course in the global frame,has its consequences. (shrink)

The paper functions as a contribution to feminist analyses that are methodologically based on Rosa Luxemburg’s critique of political economy and her understanding of capital accumulation, but also as a contribution to contemporary social-reproduction theory which aims to integrate Luxemburg’s legacy alongside that of Marx. The essay offers a sketch for a ‘Luxemburgian feminism’ consisting of an overview of Luxemburg’s critique of bourgeois feminism and a preliminary application of Luxemburg’s ‘dialectics of spatiality’ to contemporary social-reproduction theory. With Luxemburg’sThe Accumulation of (...) Capitalin mind and her several essays on the so-called ‘women’s question’, we shall attempt to relate Luxemburg’s explanation of the dynamic link between capitalist and non-capitalist spatialities with the commodification of women’s reproductive labour. (shrink)

Prema Foucaultovom razumijevanju posve specifični, ali svakodnevni, kontekst čini da jezik, život i rad određuju bit modernoga čovjeka, a u konsekvencijama uvjeta tako shvaćene ontologije i »znanost o čovjeku«. Habermas će pak, posve se koncentrirajući na komunikativni potencijal jezika, shvatiti antropologiju svakodnevlja posve različito Foucaultovoj poststrukturalističkoj kritici metafizike i tradicionalnom poimanju uzročnosti, identiteta, subjekta i istine. Ovdje bismo otvorili debatu Foucault/Habermas da bismo ispitali u kojem je odnosu praksa svakodnevlja s jezikom. Tvrdimo da je veza jezika, epistemologije i društvenopolitičkoga svakodnevlja (...) temeljna kad je u pitanju teza da čovjek u političkom smislu postoji kao jezično biće. To ćemo pokušati utvrditi na nekim Habermasovim točkama racionalizacije društva i komunikativnosti za koja ćemo ponuditi i tri kritička mjesta: poststrukturalističko i postmoderno, feminističko, i mediološko.According to Foucault’s understanding quite specific but the everyday context makes it possible that language, life and work define the essence of modern man, and in consequences in terms of such understood ontology also the “science of man”. Habermas would, however, completely concentrating himself on the communicative potential of language understand the anthropology of everyday life quite different from Foucault’s poststructuralist critique of metaphysics and traditional notions of causality, identity, subject and truth. We would like to open the Foucault/Habermas debate in order to examine the relation between practice of everyday life and language. We claim that the relationship nature of language, epistemology and sociopolitical everyday life is fundamental when it comes to the thesis that in the political sense human exists as a linguistic being. We will try to determine that thesis with few points of Habermas’ rationalization of society and communication for which we offer three critical places: poststructuralist and postmodern, feminist, and perspective of mediology. (shrink)

In this paper, implicitly starting from the neuralgic epistemological point caused by Kostas Axelos’ question to Gordana Bosanac: “Will a woman manage to think?”, we will analyse The Second Sex (Le Deuxième sexe, 1949) by Simone de Beauvoir, to deliberately dissolve the irony of Axelos’s question by reading and talking to the text of one of the most important woman philosophers in the history of philosophy. We will interpret The Second Sex as a report on the phenomenology of the relationship (...) between the gendered self and the gender-marked world, in which the social ideals of the feminine shape the experience of the female self and the processes of becoming a woman. The paper is structured into three sections. After the introductory notes, in the first section, entitled “Ad feminam criticism and controversies”, we will present only a few paradigmatic examples of controversies and negative reactions that followed the publication of The Second Sex. In the “Phenomenology of Gender”, the second and key section of the paper, we will pay attention to the original reading of The Second Sex, mapping the existentialist-phenomenological theses on gender in the book. Finally, in the concluding remarks, we will only sketch a few more recent readings of The Second Sex, to point out the current and very engaged affirmations and additions to the ideas that Simone de Beauvoir announced with that philosophical classic. (shrink)

Není tomu tak dávno, co se ti, kdo vzývali termín "analytická filosofie", v naší zemi jevili jako příslušníci nějaké divné sekty, kteří smysl termínu "filosofie" jakýmsi úchylným způsobem překrucují. Není-li však člověk zrovna Valihrachem, nemůže o tom, co slova znamenají, svévolně rozhodovat; a faktem je, analytická filosofie tvoří podstatnou část toho, co se ve světě pod hlavičkou "filosofie" učí a provozuje. (Já bych řekl, že dokonce většinu, ale statistické údaje samozřejmě k dispozici žádné nemám.) Během posledních zhruba deseti let se (...) ovšem situace podstatně změnila a analytický způsob filosofování se u nás začíná široce etablovat. Existují již překlady celé řady klasických děl (Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Popper, ...) i těch novějších (Quine, Davidson, ...), a vznikla i celá řade původních prací. Co dosud scházelo bylo nějaké systematické historické pojednání o tom, jak tento filosofický směr vznikl, jak se vyvíjel a jak dospěl k tomu druhu otázek, který si předsevzal řešit. Tuto mezeru se nyní pokouší zaplnit kniha docenta filosofické fakulty olomoucké univerzity Lubomíra Valenty Problémy analytické filosofie. (shrink)