Petar Bojanić
Biographic Data
| ID | 1001576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petar Bojanić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petar |
| FAMILY NAME | Bojanić |
| SIGNATURE | BOJANIĆ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9324-2209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Victory as an End and Victory as the End of Victory. Elements of a Sketch for a Theory of the “Victorious Mind”
This paper explores the semantic, philosophical, and institutional dimensions of victory as both an end goal and a regulatory principle shaping modern social, political, and military life. Starting from Carl von Clausewitz’s and Soviet doctrinal understandings of victory, the study examines how the notion functions as a metainstitutional protocol that structures antagonism, legitimizes authority, and defines social order. Through a dialogue with …
The Project of the Last War for Peace
The article examines Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s concept of the “closed commercial state” and his views on war and borders. The author analyzes Fichte’s use of the term “natural borders” and its role in legitimizing state consolidation through warfare. The paper explores Fichte’s argument that philosophers have historically “sighed over wars” and his assertion that war is inevitable in the current state of affairs. Fichte proposes that to abolish wa…
Derrida's Counter-Institution and Its Ethics of Promise and Responsibility
In this article, we consider Derrida’s grasp on counter-institution and outline a peculiar modality of ethics that it engenders. After evoking his counter-institutional public engagements in the introduction, we begin an analysis of the word counter-institution. In the first place, the polysemy of its prefix “counter” is exposed, followed by the claim that in Derrida’s philosophy this term denotes proximity and contact, rather than opposition - t…
In-Statuere
‘Being together’ obviously means something more, such as being with some third, someone not yet present. If we had to describe this novelty in the development of the ‘In-statuere’ (de)construction, we would begin from the number of acts continuously enlarged, increased by the reciprocal activity of multiple actors. A group of individuals gathers to address a problem, transparently design a solution, construct a general plan of action for providin…
On the Metamorphosis of One Institution of Civil Societ
The article presents a version of the evolution of the police institution, which was originally part of civil society, not the state. A few paragraphs from Hegel’s lectures on the philosophy of law become the starting point of this reconstruction. Based on the ideas expressed in them, the author explains the mechanism of the emergence of the police from the activities of citizens to establish rules (protocols) of interaction, the supervision of…
Unjust enemy” or “Monster dilemma” revisited. On the conditions and the paradox of a theological fiction1
The text once more reconstructs the perennially fashionable ?figure? within public and international law, as well as a theologized construction: an evil-doer who must be destroyed in the conflict or war. The ?unjust enemy?, always mutually recognized and often indicated as the other side in every conflict (and particularly ambiguously and obscurely in the current war between Russia and Ukraine), should satisfy certain conditions for them to be li…
“Leben und Gewalt” ou “Gewalt und Leben”
No parágrafo 18 de “Rumo à Crítica da Violência”, os termos vida , viver e violência , e as relações entre eles, complicam a justificativa de Walter Benjamin para a violência divina - a principal descoberta de seu texto. Este artigo procura reconstruir os usos de Benjamin da vida e vivência em textos anteriores e considerar a influência potencial de vários autores que ele estava lendo na época (Heinrich Rickert, Erich Unger, Kurt Hiller, Gershom …
The messiness of victory and heroism
The article focuses on a passage from Carl Schmitt?s Ex Captivitate Salus - a book famously written in a Nurnberg prison in 1946 - in which he draws, from memory, on a story derived from Serbian epic poetry, to justify his understanding of historiography, victory, and the figure of the hero. Analyzing the entire Serbian epic poem from which Schmitt extracts the vignette in question, we show how the text of the poem presents a significantly more c…
A Violência Divina de Benjamin e o Caso de Coré - A Rebelião contra Moisés Como Primeira Cena do Messianismo (Números, 16)
Texto originalmente publicado em: BOJANIC, Petar. Violence and messianism. Jewish Philosophy and the Great Conflicts of the 20th Century. Londres/Nova Iorque: Routledge, 2018. p. 99-114
Última guerra ou a guerra para fazer o mundo seguro para a democracia
Parafraseada no título deste texto está uma nota feita por Hannah Arendt em agosto de 1952. Depois de ler Nomos da Terra de Carl Schmitt, Arendt tenta confrontar a ideia de Schmitt de uma guerra justa. No texto, busco reconstruir as leituras de Arendt de diferentes textos de filosofia política dentro do contexto de seu pensamento sobre a relação entre violência e poder, força e lei. A recusa de Arendt em aceitar a existência de uma violência que …
Institutions in Action
Primeira cena de construção institucional
A partir da exposição realizada na Dickson Poon School of Law do King's College London (2016/2017) pelo artista e professor alemão da Universidade de Bonn, Werner Gephart, propõe-se aqui análise da obra “Produção babilônica de normatividade na Europa (2016)”, em diálogo com “A Torre de Babel”, de 1563 do artista belga Pieter Bruegel, o Velho, ambas cotejadas com os textos religiosos com os quais dialogam, com vistas a compreender as analogias fei…
An Engaged Act as a Condition of a (Philosophical) Community
The text presented is the beginning of a project of a group based in Belgrade at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory for Engagement Studies. We are interested in how the French word engagement behaves in Russian. A preliminary definition of our position and the main hypothesis consists of several provisions: first, we are interested in the acts or actions, as a result of which something happens, and not the facts, objects, consequenc…
Invention of the future in project-time. An imaginary “encounter” between Georg Simmel and Henri Bergson, and its significance for architecture
«Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Философия и конфликтология» — научно-теоретический рецензируемый журнал, обобщающий результаты исследований ученых всего мира в области традиционных философских дисциплин — онтологии, теории познания, логики, этики, социальной философии, эстетики, истории философии, философии культуры и философии религии, а также актуальные разработки в конфликтологии, философии политики и права
Presentation of “Das feuer oder das ewige leben” (3.1) of Rosenzweig’s Stern der Erlösung
In this text, I analyze the most important topics of one of the most complex portions of Rosenzweig?s Star of Redemption. The chapter ?The Fire or the Eternal Life? deals with the community and communal life of the eternal people, and it reconstructs the basic elements and conditions of communal living. A presentation of all key protocols of life and work of a group of people ought to show the plurality of heterogeneous practices that have helped…
La “disciplina” como categoría y la “disciplina institucional”
El propósito del presente trabajo consiste en reflexionar sobre la disciplina como categoría (por oposición a otras posibilidades, tales como noción, estructura, norma, protocolo, etc.) y explicar el uso de comillas en el título, en la medida en que siempre pueden suponer una ampliación y una corrección de la palabra disciplina. mi intención es reconstruir la resistencia, que se ha extendido durante décadas, a la disciplina (como castigo, control…
Leben und Gewalt” or “Gewalt und Leben”
In paragraph 18 of “Toward the Critique of Violence,” the terms life, living, and violence, and the relations among them, complicate Walter Benjamin's justification of divine violence—his text's main discovery. This article seeks to reconstruct Benjamin's uses of life and living in earlier texts and to consider the potential influence of various authors he was reading at the time (Heinrich Rickert, Erich Unger, Kurt Hiller, Gershom Scholem). Benj…
Institutional change and the paradox of (restitution and) restauration of the institution
My intention in this text is to present the most significant contribution of some French philosophers and anthropologists to the notion of reconstruction and advancement of institutions. The paradox of change, reform or transformation of the institution - is an entirely new institution possible? How do institutions die? - lies in the difficulty or even impossibility to change something that manifests what we are as a group. If institutions really…
Paul Celan on the impossibility of testimony
In his poems, Paul Celan does not use words such as territory, border, border crossing, and only very rarely the word space. I would like to reconstruct the traces of ?Heimat? in Celan (in a number of poems from different periods ?Heimat? plays an important role), and perhaps try to describe what Heimat might have meant for the young Paul Antschel (his real name). That is to say, I would like to understand whether ?Heimat? is synonymous with what…
Violence and Messianism
Violence and Messianism looks at how some of the figures of the so-called Renaissance of "Jewish" philosophy between the two world wars - Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin and Martin Buber - grappled with problems of violence, revolution and war. At once inheriting and breaking with the great historical figures of political philosophy such as Kant and Hegel, they also exerted considerable influence on the next generation of European philosophers,…
How to be together beyond corporations and firms? Hegel at the “end of capitalism”
The text examines different assumptions of Hegel?s understanding of the corporation across various versions of his Lectures of the Philosophy of Right, given recent contemporary reflections on ?the end of capitalism.? My intention is to take Hegel?s thematization of the poor and poverty, as well as the significance Hegel ascribes to common work and the constitution of a working group as the foundation of civil society, and formulate these as real…
Realism’s understanding of negative numbers
Our topic is the understanding of the nature of negative numbers - the entities to which expressions such as ?-1? refer. Following Frege, we view positive whole numbers as providing the answer to the question ?how many?? In this light, how are we to view negative numbers? Both positive and negative numbers can be ordered through the relation of larger or smaller. It is then true of all negative numbers that they are entities which are (somehow) s…
"Taking the human out of human rights" human rights or group rights
What interest me are the reasons why ?human? or ?human rights? could be important or possibly most important in constituting a group (hence the introduction of the complicated word ?group? and ?group right(s)? in the subtitle). If I had to justify the existence of the latest debates on nature, justification and universality of human rights, on their distinction from other normative standards, on the philosophy and (legal) foundation of human righ…
Real institution
Regardless of the fact that I am using certain texts by Searle, Ferraris, Smith and De Soto, my intention is not at all to reiterate someone else?s position in my own words, nor is it to question or modify some such position. My intention for now is to, using Ferraris? theory of the document, affirm the existence of a paradox - one rejected by Searle, but unconvincingly so, I think - regarding the institution (or the institutionalization of the i…
The institution of group and genocidal acts
This critique is focused on a small theory regarding the constituting of a group through the simultaneous exclusion of some other group. Is it possible, then, to produce social and non-social acts (negative social acts) at the same time? Or is it possible to construct a group which acts ?genocidally?, meaning that it destroys another group or ?the groupness? of a group, and at the same time affirm its own unity and its ontological stability? (I h…
To institute, to primally institute (Stiften, Urstiften)
(nemacki) In diesem Text wird die Bedeutung von Husserls ph?nomenologischen Forschungen zur (urspr?nglichen) Institution und zur Institutionalisierung (neben den Verben "stiften" und "urstiften" verwendet Husserl die Nomen "Stiftung", "Urstiftung" und "Endstiftung"). Es wird angenommen, dass die Bedeutung dieser nicht ausreichend bekannten Strategien nur in den unver?ffentlichten Handschriften gefunden werden kann, dass die unterschiedlichen Gene…
Derrida's Counter-Institution and Its Ethics of Promise and Responsibility
In this article, we consider Derrida’s grasp on counter-institution and outline a peculiar modality of ethics that it engenders. After evoking his counter-institutional public engagements in the introduction, we begin an analysis of the word counter-institution. In the first place, the polysemy of its prefix “counter” is exposed, followed by the claim that in Derrida’s philosophy this term denotes proximity and contact, rather than opposition - t…
Prevodjenja rata u mir - vratiti mirno za drago
(nemacki) Der Text erforscht den Ursprung und die Geschichte der "Fundamentierung" des Kriegs und seiner "?bertragung" in Frieden auf dem Weg der Gewalt. In einer Analyse des bekannten Syntagmas "Gleiches mit Gleichem vergelten" in einigen Schl?sseltexten, die versuchen, den Frieden zu "institutionalisieren" (es handelt sich um Texte von Kelsen, Kant, L?vinas, Derrida u. a.), sucht der Autor nach einer anderen Relation zur Gewalt. Die Interpretat…
The enemy, his gestalt of animal (Schmitt’s and Hegel’s animal functions)
The main cause of Schmitt?s and Koj?ve?s friendship, and consequently, their correspondence, lies in their common affinity for philosophy of Hegel. When they began corresponding in 1955, Schmitt was something of an academic pariah; in 1933, the legal scholar had joined the Nazi Party, publicly declared his anti-Semitism, was later interrogated (but not charged) at Nuremberg, and retired from his post at the University of Berlin in 1946. After his…
Prevodjenja rata u mir - vratiti mirno za drago
(nemacki) Der Text erforscht den Ursprung und die Geschichte der "Fundamentierung" des Kriegs und seiner "?bertragung" in Frieden auf dem Weg der Gewalt. In einer Analyse des bekannten Syntagmas "Gleiches mit Gleichem vergelten" in einigen Schl?sseltexten, die versuchen, den Frieden zu "institutionalisieren" (es handelt sich um Texte von Kelsen, Kant, L?vinas, Derrida u. a.), sucht der Autor nach einer anderen Relation zur Gewalt. Die Interpretat…
Tajna, tajna služba, služba državne bezbednosti - "Državni razlog" i ustanove suverenosti
(nemački) Im Text dieses Projekt wird das Wort "Geheimnis" ausschließlich in Zusammenhang mit dem Staat und der "Ragion di Stato" /Staatsräson/ gedacht. Die unterschiedlichen Formen und Transformationen des Geheimnisses und des Verbergens bilden eine der grundlegenden Quellen und Bedingungen für die Souveränität. Die berühmte Fiktion von der Schwierigkeit, das "mystery in the soul of state", die Shakespeare, Bacon, Thomasius, Kant und Heidegger v…
Last war or a war to make the world safe for democracy
Paraphrased within the title of this text is a note Hannah Arendt made in August 1952. After reading Carl Schmitt?s Nomos der Erde, Arendt tries to confront Schmitt?s idea of a just war. In the text I attempt to reconstruct Arendt?s readings of differing political philosophy texts within the context of her thinking concerning the relationship between violence and power, force and law. Arendt?s refusal to accept the existence of violence which can…
To institute, to primally institute (Stiften, Urstiften)
(nemacki) In diesem Text wird die Bedeutung von Husserls ph?nomenologischen Forschungen zur (urspr?nglichen) Institution und zur Institutionalisierung (neben den Verben "stiften" und "urstiften" verwendet Husserl die Nomen "Stiftung", "Urstiftung" und "Endstiftung"). Es wird angenommen, dass die Bedeutung dieser nicht ausreichend bekannten Strategien nur in den unver?ffentlichten Handschriften gefunden werden kann, dass die unterschiedlichen Gene…
Souveränität, pseudo-souveränität, protektionat
(nemacki) Was ist vom Begriff der "Souver?nit?t" geblieben, mit anderen Worten: ist es nach der Schaffung einer Vielzahl kleiner souver?ner Staaten in Osteuropa noch m?glich, ?ber die Figur des Souver?ns zu sprechen? Was ist ein Staat sofern er kein Souver?n ist bzw. sofern er nur teilweise ein Souver?n ist? Wieviel Souver?nit?t bedarf es (ist es m?glich, die Souver?nit?t zu messen?) damit ein Staat wirklich souver?n ist? Verhandelt der Internati…
Political imagery
U ovom radu pokusavam da rekonstruisem Levinasovo citanje Hegela i njegovo razumevanje nasilja (neprijatelja i rata), sluzeci se tekstovima Franza Rosenzweiga o Hegelovoj drzavi i Derridinom interpretacijom razlicitih atributa nasilja kod Emmanuel Levinasa. Interesovace me klasifikacija nekih figura nasilja iz razlicitih perioda Hegelovog zivota i njihovi tragovi u Levinasovim tekstovima pocevsi od teksta 'Libert? et commandement' iz 1953. godine…
La violence divine de Benjamin et le cas de Coré (Korah)
Sacrifice
(francuski) Avant de qualifier la th?orie du 'radical' de Rosenzweig de messianisme, il me semble important de localiser le 'registre du sacrifice' dans ce syst?me de connaissance. Du reste, c'est la premi?re innovation de Rosenzweig par rapport ? la tradition. Rosenzweig n'a ni essay? ni eu le temps de th?matiser en d?tail la figure du 'sacrifice' ou du korban comme le nom le plus g?n?rique d'une telle activit?. Tout ce que nous poss?dons se r?s…
Allergologies Versus Homeopathies
Cet arrière-goût de violence
I will attempt to explain the connection between violence (someone's violence) and my own or Levinas's or the State's violence as a response to the initial violence (Violence against Violence) and finally the violence which remains in the mouth, throat, aftertaste [gout] or in disgust [degout]. 'Cet arri?re-go?t de violence' or 'un quelconque arri?re-go?t de degout' [a sort of aftertaste of disgust]
Of “reversal,” on revolutional
We should investigate whether the phrase l?institution r?volutionnaire best describes Deleuze?s imaginary theory of the institution, as well as his engagement with the theory more generally. The preliminary difficulty, which immediately questions and devalues our commentary, is Deleuze?s own refusal to thematize the institution and his own effort, and thus actually answer his own questions from the 1950s: what is it that explains the institution?…
Wäre er nicht mehr Staat“
The surprising thing about ?Das ?lteste Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus. Ein handshriftliher Fund,? one of Rosenzweig?s best supported and most carefully detailed texts, is that he almost completely ignores one of the most stunning and mysterious fragments of this brief, two-page manuscript that he discovers in 1914 at the Prussian State Library in Berlin. Not only that: while discussing and justifying in detail every part of this manuscr…
The institution of group and genocidal acts
This critique is focused on a small theory regarding the constituting of a group through the simultaneous exclusion of some other group. Is it possible, then, to produce social and non-social acts (negative social acts) at the same time? Or is it possible to construct a group which acts ?genocidally?, meaning that it destroys another group or ?the groupness? of a group, and at the same time affirm its own unity and its ontological stability? (I h…
Semantics of Statebuilding
Sovereignty and the Origins of War Leibniz versus Bodin
Sovereignty and the Origins of War Leibniz versus Bodin Petar Bojanić (bio) In explaining sovereignty (Suprematu[s]), and this is surprising, the difficulty is that I am entering an entirely neglected field. The reason for this is that those who write about it most often write gazing into the past, toward the stunted remains of sovereignty that are barely even there, while completely disregarding what is happening now. I am least astonished by th…
Real institution
Regardless of the fact that I am using certain texts by Searle, Ferraris, Smith and De Soto, my intention is not at all to reiterate someone else?s position in my own words, nor is it to question or modify some such position. My intention for now is to, using Ferraris? theory of the document, affirm the existence of a paradox - one rejected by Searle, but unconvincingly so, I think - regarding the institution (or the institutionalization of the i…
"Taking the human out of human rights" human rights or group rights
What interest me are the reasons why ?human? or ?human rights? could be important or possibly most important in constituting a group (hence the introduction of the complicated word ?group? and ?group right(s)? in the subtitle). If I had to justify the existence of the latest debates on nature, justification and universality of human rights, on their distinction from other normative standards, on the philosophy and (legal) foundation of human righ…
Realism’s understanding of negative numbers
Our topic is the understanding of the nature of negative numbers - the entities to which expressions such as ?-1? refer. Following Frege, we view positive whole numbers as providing the answer to the question ?how many?? In this light, how are we to view negative numbers? Both positive and negative numbers can be ordered through the relation of larger or smaller. It is then true of all negative numbers that they are entities which are (somehow) s…
Violence and Messianism
Violence and Messianism looks at how some of the figures of the so-called Renaissance of "Jewish" philosophy between the two world wars - Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin and Martin Buber - grappled with problems of violence, revolution and war. At once inheriting and breaking with the great historical figures of political philosophy such as Kant and Hegel, they also exerted considerable influence on the next generation of European philosophers,…
How to be together beyond corporations and firms? Hegel at the “end of capitalism”
The text examines different assumptions of Hegel?s understanding of the corporation across various versions of his Lectures of the Philosophy of Right, given recent contemporary reflections on ?the end of capitalism.? My intention is to take Hegel?s thematization of the poor and poverty, as well as the significance Hegel ascribes to common work and the constitution of a working group as the foundation of civil society, and formulate these as real…
Paul Celan on the impossibility of testimony
In his poems, Paul Celan does not use words such as territory, border, border crossing, and only very rarely the word space. I would like to reconstruct the traces of ?Heimat? in Celan (in a number of poems from different periods ?Heimat? plays an important role), and perhaps try to describe what Heimat might have meant for the young Paul Antschel (his real name). That is to say, I would like to understand whether ?Heimat? is synonymous with what…
La “disciplina” como categoría y la “disciplina institucional”
El propósito del presente trabajo consiste en reflexionar sobre la disciplina como categoría (por oposición a otras posibilidades, tales como noción, estructura, norma, protocolo, etc.) y explicar el uso de comillas en el título, en la medida en que siempre pueden suponer una ampliación y una corrección de la palabra disciplina. mi intención es reconstruir la resistencia, que se ha extendido durante décadas, a la disciplina (como castigo, control…
Leben und Gewalt” or “Gewalt und Leben”
In paragraph 18 of “Toward the Critique of Violence,” the terms life, living, and violence, and the relations among them, complicate Walter Benjamin's justification of divine violence—his text's main discovery. This article seeks to reconstruct Benjamin's uses of life and living in earlier texts and to consider the potential influence of various authors he was reading at the time (Heinrich Rickert, Erich Unger, Kurt Hiller, Gershom Scholem). Benj…
Institutional change and the paradox of (restitution and) restauration of the institution
My intention in this text is to present the most significant contribution of some French philosophers and anthropologists to the notion of reconstruction and advancement of institutions. The paradox of change, reform or transformation of the institution - is an entirely new institution possible? How do institutions die? - lies in the difficulty or even impossibility to change something that manifests what we are as a group. If institutions really…
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