In Dositej's footsteps: From the paradigm of the modern to the controversy about postmodern Serbian identity

The text is dedicated to the consideration of the stage of the life path and the literary philosophical area of Dositej Obradović, about which there are many quite opposing conceptual interpretations. Dositej's concept of enlightenment is emphasized by some authors not only as sharp criticism o...

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Main Author: Lolić Marinko V.
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Language:English
Published: Serbian Sociological Association, Belgrade 2024-01-01
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description The text is dedicated to the consideration of the stage of the life path and the literary philosophical area of Dositej Obradović, about which there are many quite opposing conceptual interpretations. Dositej's concept of enlightenment is emphasized by some authors not only as sharp criticism of the monastic life at that time, but also a radical break with religion and Serbian Saint Sava's tradition. The paper presents the reasons why Dositej's "travel", "walking", "wandering", "vagrancy", "staying abroad", narrated in the first person in his works, should be evaluated as a key place in his overall literary and philosophical opus, as an authentic narrative of his early production and later career as a philosopher and educator. Contrary to the views that Dositej's early works already represent a radical break with the medieval Serbian tradition, in this paper I develop arguments for the opposite point of view - that the principle of subjectivity of literary modernity is what enables us to consider Dositej's early works not as the result of a break with tradition, but as an autonomous act of literature and philosophy from the very principle of reflection and storytelling, which just opens the road to the acquisition of the modern identity of Serbian culture in strong theoretical terms.
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spelling doaj-art-76ae941eda82455a9580b5d151f680f12025-02-05T13:24:56ZengSerbian Sociological Association, BelgradeSociološki Pregled0085-63202560-48802024-01-0158484186110.5937/socpreg58-521240085-63202404841LIn Dositej's footsteps: From the paradigm of the modern to the controversy about postmodern Serbian identityLolić Marinko V.0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9741-459XInstitut društvenih nauka, Beograd, SerbiaThe text is dedicated to the consideration of the stage of the life path and the literary philosophical area of Dositej Obradović, about which there are many quite opposing conceptual interpretations. Dositej's concept of enlightenment is emphasized by some authors not only as sharp criticism of the monastic life at that time, but also a radical break with religion and Serbian Saint Sava's tradition. The paper presents the reasons why Dositej's "travel", "walking", "wandering", "vagrancy", "staying abroad", narrated in the first person in his works, should be evaluated as a key place in his overall literary and philosophical opus, as an authentic narrative of his early production and later career as a philosopher and educator. Contrary to the views that Dositej's early works already represent a radical break with the medieval Serbian tradition, in this paper I develop arguments for the opposite point of view - that the principle of subjectivity of literary modernity is what enables us to consider Dositej's early works not as the result of a break with tradition, but as an autonomous act of literature and philosophy from the very principle of reflection and storytelling, which just opens the road to the acquisition of the modern identity of Serbian culture in strong theoretical terms.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2024/0085-63202404841L.pdfdositejtravelliteraturephilosophyidentity
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In Dositej's footsteps: From the paradigm of the modern to the controversy about postmodern Serbian identity
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title In Dositej's footsteps: From the paradigm of the modern to the controversy about postmodern Serbian identity
title_full In Dositej's footsteps: From the paradigm of the modern to the controversy about postmodern Serbian identity
title_fullStr In Dositej's footsteps: From the paradigm of the modern to the controversy about postmodern Serbian identity
title_full_unstemmed In Dositej's footsteps: From the paradigm of the modern to the controversy about postmodern Serbian identity
title_short In Dositej's footsteps: From the paradigm of the modern to the controversy about postmodern Serbian identity
title_sort in dositej s footsteps from the paradigm of the modern to the controversy about postmodern serbian identity
topic dositej
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literature
philosophy
identity
url https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2024/0085-63202404841L.pdf
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