From Self-Management to Alienation: Praxis, the Ljubljana School, and Yugoslav Philosophy

Socialist Yugoslavia produced two internationally renowned schools of philosophy in the period following the Second World War: the Praxis school in the 1970s and the Ljubljana School in the 1980s, which is today recognized as one of the most important schools of continental philosophy in the world. The lecture will focus on the relationship between, and the conceptual differences separating, the two schools, placing particular emphasis on the figure of Zagorka Golubović, the only woman among the members of Praxis. After losing her position at the University of Belgrade on account of her “dissi