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The Philosophy of Parochialism (Hardcover, Originally published as Filosofija Palanke)
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The Philosophy of Parochialism (Hardcover, Originally published as Filosofija Palanke)
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The Philosophy of Parochialism is Radomir Konstantinovic's
(1928-2011) most celebrated and reviled book. First published in
Belgrade as Filosofija palanke in 1969, it attracted keen attention
and controversy through its unsparing critique of Serbian and any
other nationalism in Yugoslavia and beyond. The book was prophetic,
seeming to anticipate not only the bloody disintegration of
Yugoslavia in the 1990s, but also the totalitarian turn in politics
across the globe in the first decades of the new century. With this
translation, English-speaking audiences can at last discover one of
the most original writers of eastern European late modernism, and
gain an important and original perspective into contemporary
politics and culture in the West and beyond. This is a book that
seems to age in reverse, as its meanings become deeper and more
universal with the passage of time. Konstantinovic'sbookresists
easy classification, mixing classical, Montaigne-like essay, prose
poetry, novel, and literary history. The word 'philosophy' in the
book's title refers to the solitary activity of reflection and
critical thinking, and is also paradoxical: according to the
author, a defining characteristic of parochialism is precisely its
intolerance toward this kind of self-reflexivity. In
Konstantinovic's analysis, parochialism is not a simply a
characteristic of a geographical region or a cultural, political,
and historical formation-these are all just manifestations of the
parochial spirit as the spirit of insularity. His book illuminates
the current moment, in which insularity undergirds not only ethnic
and national divisions, but also dictates the very structure of
everyday life, and where individuals can easily find themselves
locked in an echo chamber of social media. The Philosophy of
Parochialism can help us understand better not only the dead ends
of ethnic nationalism and other atavistic ideologies, but also of
those cultural forces such as digital technologies that have been
built on the promise of overcoming those ideologies.
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