Aleksandar Molnar
Biographic Data
| ID | 6481045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksandar Molnar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksandar |
| FAMILY NAME | Molnar |
| SIGNATURE | MOLNAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Filozofski fakultet, Beograd |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9963-5070 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Đinđić’s Political Legacy in Vučić’s Serbia. A Contribution to the Understanding of the Dynamics of the Revolutionary Rotation
In the paper, the author advocates the thesis that today’s authoritarian regime of Aleksandar Vučić implements the policy inaugurated by Zoran Đinđić while he was the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia (2001–2003). According to the author, that policy has three basic principles: 1) the speed in Serbia’s accession to the European Union (which proved to be nothing more than speed in getting and spending money from the funds of the European Un…
Idea of „homosexual fascists“ revisited
In this article, the authors address the question of whether ?homosexual fascists? should be treated as a mere ?cliche? or as an idea that contains some scientific value. After a short introductory part, the problem of homosexuality in two influential pre-war theories of mass psychology ? Freud?s and Reich?s ? are examined and then their achivements are evaluated from the perspective of five most imprtant Hitler?s statements about Rohm and his as…
Otto Hefler’s Theory of Germanic Warrior Männerbünde in the Third Reich
In the article, the authors deal with the works which were published by the Austrian Germanist Otto Höfler in the Third Reich and which were more or less dedicated to the Germanic warrior Männerbünde. The focus of their analysis is the book The Secret Cult Associations of the Germans (1934), derived from Höfler's habilitation thesis. In their opinion, Höfler expressed his fundamental scientific and ideological views in the second volume of this b…
Max Weber’s theory of Männerbund
Considering that Max Weber?s theory of the ?men?s union (Mannerbund)? is still unsurpassed today, despite the fact that it was not syst ematically developed anywhere, the authors undertook its reconstruction from the many fragments left behind after his death, primarily in the book Economy and Society. Although Weber is rightly considered to have paid the most attention to the phenomenon of warrior communism in his discussions of the Mannerbund, …
Franz Boas’ Postulate of the Warfare Origin of Secret Societies and Myths about the “Culture Heroˮ and the “Tricksterˮ in North America
In this paper, the authors argue that Franz Boas had a coherent theory of the secret society, which he did not systematically develop anywhere, but which can be reconstructed from several of his works. The authors are not dealing with the whole theory, but only with the postulate of the warfare origin of secret societies (which later became the foundation of the Männerbund theory). Namely, Boas believed that the secret societies of the North Amer…
Singing in Paul’s Cult of the Possessed by Jesus’ Spirit
In the article the authors are dealing with Paul’s cult of the possessed by the spirit of the late magician Jesus, as well as with the place and the meaning of singing in its two main rituals: ritual meal and ritual conjuring of Jesus’ spirit. The conclusion of the analysis is that both rituals had the same two-part structure. Ritual meal consisted of love feast (agape), where the members of the cult were supposed to sing appropriate songs togeth…
Liberty versus popular sovereignty. Constant’s understandig of the „ideas of 1789“ and obstacles in their affirmation
In the article the author is dealing with Benjamin de Constant’s assumptions that the core “idea of 1789“ was „reasonable liberty“, that there was a „natural tendency“ of the French people at that time to demand such liberty and that it was later, in the course of revolutionary struggles, suppressed by the usurpators of the popular sovereignty. As a matter of fact, Constant believed that the whole concept of popular sovereignty, invented by the m…
The novelty of Montesquieu’s definition of despotism
Nowhere in his work Montesquieu did give a precise definition of despotism as one of three types of government. However, a number of places where Montesquieu wrote about despotism reveal a fairly consistent model based on five key principles: 1) the supremacy of only one (ruling) political force; 2) equality of subjects based on their nothingness; 3) simplicity of social structure (devoid of class and rank); 4) administrative distribution of only…
Kant and the temptations of phantasy
In the article the author concentrates on Immanuel Kant?s philosophical musings on phantasy and its artistic products such as novels (Romane). Although Kant was one of the first critics of the early German romanticist endeavors to emancipate the force of phantasy from the domination of the mind/reason, he was also incapable to resist the temptation to give phantasy important role in the cognitive activities of man. Ultimately, phantasy was crucia…
Beginnings and Importance of Romantic Wandering in Mid-18th Century
In the article, the author is discussing the importance of the wandering experiences for the emergence of Romanticism in the mid-18th century. His point of view is that without such experiences the rising culture of novels would not be able to trigger the correspondent take off in romantic arts and philosophy. Only during wanderings in the unknown nature it was possible not only to contemplate the alternative universes reveled by novels, but also…
Schubert and Beethoven - Adorno’s early antipods of the music in bougeois epoch
In this article the authors are reconstructing the dichotomies which the young Theodor Adorno was trying to detect in the music of the bourgeois epoch and personify in two antipodes - Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven. Although already a devotee of Arnold Sch?nberg and the 20th century music avantgardism, Adorno was, in his works prior to his exile from Germany (1934), intensively dealing with Schubert and his opposition towards Beethoven. …
The impact of pietism and Frederic the Great on German 18th century enlightenment
In the article the author is dealing with two issues he perceives as main specific features of the German 18th century Enlightenment: the impact of pietism and the role of Prussian king Frederic the Great. On the one hand, as a very influential intellectual power in Germany, especially in Prussia, pietism was reluctant to let freedom of consciousness go too far. Instead, it tried to come to terms with the Enlightenment movement and save what was …
The light of freedom in the age of enlightenment - part 1: The Netherlands
The central topic of the article is the importance of the freedom for the Age of Enlightenment, as well as ties connecting philosophy of Enlightenment and political liberalism. Furthermore, the author?s central thesis is that the light that began to enlightened the reason in the Age of Enlightenment had nothing to do with God or nature, but solely with human freedom. As Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftsbury, noted in one of his letters,…
The light of freedom in the age of enlightenment (2): England and France
Although the philosophy (as well as the whole movement) of Enlightenment was born in the Netherlands and England in the late 17th and early 18th century, there were considerable problems in defying the freedom. By the mid 18th century, under the influence of ?national mercantilism? (Max Weber), the freedom was perceived in more and more collective terms, giving bith to the political option of national liberalism. That is why in the second half of…
Rousseauist foundations of Schmitt's concept of (total) state
In this paper the author discusses Carl Schmitt's concept of 'the political' (das Politische), and his constitutional teaching (Verfassungslehre). He is trying to explain that the logic of Schmitt's argument against liberal democracy and in favor of populist democracy follows all the important conclusions made by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Social Contract, with only one exception. Schmitt was, namely, reluctant to accept that the social contrac…
Carl Schmitt's attitude towards total war and total enemy on the eve of the outbreak of WWII
Carl Schmitt is usually perceived as the theorist of total state, total war and total hostility. In the article, the author however tries to show that from 1937 to 1944, Schmitt was arguing that total war and total hostility were dangerous for Germany (as well as for the rest of Europe) and warned against perpetuation of all efforts to totalize enemy that started in 1914. In his theoretical endeavors in this period there was place for the total s…
Adorno's Marxism versus Schoenberg's Judaism: Ideological foundations of Adorno's sociological approach to Schoenberg's dodecaphonic music
In this article the authors devote their attention to the ideological dimension of Theodor Adorno's attitude towards atonality, and especially towards dodecaphonic music. They are arguing that Adorno never really wanted to understand close interrelatedness between Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphonic project and his endeavors to go 'back to the roots' of Judaism. Instead, Adorno developed a Marxist pattern of explanation which was hostile towards any…
The Serbian Constitution as a Constitution of a Total Pluralistic Party State
In the first section of the paper Carl Schmitt’s concept of a total pluralistic state (totale pluralistische Parteistaat) is reconstructed from various writings of his published in the 1930s. The three principal pillars of a total pluralistic party state are considered: constitutional ethics (based on political myth), party pluralism and the totalitarian aspirations of political parties towards their members and clients in the sphere of civil soc…
Debate on sublime in the end of 18th century: Burke, Kant, Schiller
In the article the authors are examining three positions within the 18th Century aesthetic discussion on the sublime - Edmund Burke's, Immanuel Kant's and Friedrich Schiller's. They are also trying to reconstruct the political backgrounds of each of this theoretical positions: old regime conservatism (Burke), republican liberalism (Schiller) and romantic longing for the 'third way' (Kant). The most sophisticated and mature theory of sublime is fo…
Avant-garde: Making war, revolutionary politics and art
In the article the authors are dealing with the militant potential of the concept of avant-garde. Emerging in the politics and art in the first half of the 19th century and designed to ruin almost the whole tradition of 'bourgeois' enlightenment, political and artistic avant-garde was never capable of emancipating itself from its roots in strategic military thinking. Its true essence was to create battlefields in every domain of public life where…
Bayreuth circle and the struggle for the new German faith
In the article the author is depicting Bayreuth Circle as a social group of radical right-wing German intellectuals, who were trying not only to propagate and disseminate nationalist and anti-Semite ideas of controversial composer and thinker Richard Wagner, but also to produce substantial changes into the social reality of Second German Reich and Weimar Republic as well. Author's intention is to stress the straight of the mixture of art (mainly …
Alfred Rosenberg’s clash with Christianity
In the article the author is following the development of Alfred Rosenberg?s social and political theory. Special attention is given to the anti-Christian attitude of the so-called "chief ideologist of Third Reich". Although one among the creators of the apocalyptic anti-Semitist ideology (about "final battle" with the Jews - perceived as the powers of Evil incarnated) he opposed Nazi "Eastern politics" during the World War II. Instead of atrocit…
Yugoslavia: Sociologija: Časopis Za Sociologiju, Socijalnu Psihologiju I Socijalnu Antropologiju (Sociology: Journal of Sociology, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Carl Schmitt's attitude towards total war and total enemy on the eve of the outbreak of WWII
Carl Schmitt is usually perceived as the theorist of total state, total war and total hostility. In the article, the author however tries to show that from 1937 to 1944, Schmitt was arguing that total war and total hostility were dangerous for Germany (as well as for the rest of Europe) and warned against perpetuation of all efforts to totalize enemy that started in 1914. In his theoretical endeavors in this period there was place for the total s…
Yugoslavia: Sociologija: Časopis Za Sociologiju, Socijalnu Psihologiju I Socijalnu Antropologiju (Sociology: Journal of Sociology, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Bayreuth circle and the struggle for the new German faith
In the article the author is depicting Bayreuth Circle as a social group of radical right-wing German intellectuals, who were trying not only to propagate and disseminate nationalist and anti-Semite ideas of controversial composer and thinker Richard Wagner, but also to produce substantial changes into the social reality of Second German Reich and Weimar Republic as well. Author's intention is to stress the straight of the mixture of art (mainly …
Alfred Rosenberg’s clash with Christianity
In the article the author is following the development of Alfred Rosenberg?s social and political theory. Special attention is given to the anti-Christian attitude of the so-called "chief ideologist of Third Reich". Although one among the creators of the apocalyptic anti-Semitist ideology (about "final battle" with the Jews - perceived as the powers of Evil incarnated) he opposed Nazi "Eastern politics" during the World War II. Instead of atrocit…
Avant-garde: Making war, revolutionary politics and art
In the article the authors are dealing with the militant potential of the concept of avant-garde. Emerging in the politics and art in the first half of the 19th century and designed to ruin almost the whole tradition of 'bourgeois' enlightenment, political and artistic avant-garde was never capable of emancipating itself from its roots in strategic military thinking. Its true essence was to create battlefields in every domain of public life where…
Adorno's Marxism versus Schoenberg's Judaism: Ideological foundations of Adorno's sociological approach to Schoenberg's dodecaphonic music
In this article the authors devote their attention to the ideological dimension of Theodor Adorno's attitude towards atonality, and especially towards dodecaphonic music. They are arguing that Adorno never really wanted to understand close interrelatedness between Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphonic project and his endeavors to go 'back to the roots' of Judaism. Instead, Adorno developed a Marxist pattern of explanation which was hostile towards any…
The Serbian Constitution as a Constitution of a Total Pluralistic Party State
In the first section of the paper Carl Schmitt’s concept of a total pluralistic state (totale pluralistische Parteistaat) is reconstructed from various writings of his published in the 1930s. The three principal pillars of a total pluralistic party state are considered: constitutional ethics (based on political myth), party pluralism and the totalitarian aspirations of political parties towards their members and clients in the sphere of civil soc…
Debate on sublime in the end of 18th century: Burke, Kant, Schiller
In the article the authors are examining three positions within the 18th Century aesthetic discussion on the sublime - Edmund Burke's, Immanuel Kant's and Friedrich Schiller's. They are also trying to reconstruct the political backgrounds of each of this theoretical positions: old regime conservatism (Burke), republican liberalism (Schiller) and romantic longing for the 'third way' (Kant). The most sophisticated and mature theory of sublime is fo…
Rousseauist foundations of Schmitt's concept of (total) state
In this paper the author discusses Carl Schmitt's concept of 'the political' (das Politische), and his constitutional teaching (Verfassungslehre). He is trying to explain that the logic of Schmitt's argument against liberal democracy and in favor of populist democracy follows all the important conclusions made by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Social Contract, with only one exception. Schmitt was, namely, reluctant to accept that the social contrac…
Carl Schmitt's attitude towards total war and total enemy on the eve of the outbreak of WWII
Carl Schmitt is usually perceived as the theorist of total state, total war and total hostility. In the article, the author however tries to show that from 1937 to 1944, Schmitt was arguing that total war and total hostility were dangerous for Germany (as well as for the rest of Europe) and warned against perpetuation of all efforts to totalize enemy that started in 1914. In his theoretical endeavors in this period there was place for the total s…
The impact of pietism and Frederic the Great on German 18th century enlightenment
In the article the author is dealing with two issues he perceives as main specific features of the German 18th century Enlightenment: the impact of pietism and the role of Prussian king Frederic the Great. On the one hand, as a very influential intellectual power in Germany, especially in Prussia, pietism was reluctant to let freedom of consciousness go too far. Instead, it tried to come to terms with the Enlightenment movement and save what was …
The light of freedom in the age of enlightenment - part 1: The Netherlands
The central topic of the article is the importance of the freedom for the Age of Enlightenment, as well as ties connecting philosophy of Enlightenment and political liberalism. Furthermore, the author?s central thesis is that the light that began to enlightened the reason in the Age of Enlightenment had nothing to do with God or nature, but solely with human freedom. As Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftsbury, noted in one of his letters,…
The light of freedom in the age of enlightenment (2): England and France
Although the philosophy (as well as the whole movement) of Enlightenment was born in the Netherlands and England in the late 17th and early 18th century, there were considerable problems in defying the freedom. By the mid 18th century, under the influence of ?national mercantilism? (Max Weber), the freedom was perceived in more and more collective terms, giving bith to the political option of national liberalism. That is why in the second half of…
Schubert and Beethoven - Adorno’s early antipods of the music in bougeois epoch
In this article the authors are reconstructing the dichotomies which the young Theodor Adorno was trying to detect in the music of the bourgeois epoch and personify in two antipodes - Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven. Although already a devotee of Arnold Sch?nberg and the 20th century music avantgardism, Adorno was, in his works prior to his exile from Germany (1934), intensively dealing with Schubert and his opposition towards Beethoven. …
Beginnings and Importance of Romantic Wandering in Mid-18th Century
In the article, the author is discussing the importance of the wandering experiences for the emergence of Romanticism in the mid-18th century. His point of view is that without such experiences the rising culture of novels would not be able to trigger the correspondent take off in romantic arts and philosophy. Only during wanderings in the unknown nature it was possible not only to contemplate the alternative universes reveled by novels, but also…
The novelty of Montesquieu’s definition of despotism
Nowhere in his work Montesquieu did give a precise definition of despotism as one of three types of government. However, a number of places where Montesquieu wrote about despotism reveal a fairly consistent model based on five key principles: 1) the supremacy of only one (ruling) political force; 2) equality of subjects based on their nothingness; 3) simplicity of social structure (devoid of class and rank); 4) administrative distribution of only…
Kant and the temptations of phantasy
In the article the author concentrates on Immanuel Kant?s philosophical musings on phantasy and its artistic products such as novels (Romane). Although Kant was one of the first critics of the early German romanticist endeavors to emancipate the force of phantasy from the domination of the mind/reason, he was also incapable to resist the temptation to give phantasy important role in the cognitive activities of man. Ultimately, phantasy was crucia…
Liberty versus popular sovereignty. Constant’s understandig of the „ideas of 1789“ and obstacles in their affirmation
In the article the author is dealing with Benjamin de Constant’s assumptions that the core “idea of 1789“ was „reasonable liberty“, that there was a „natural tendency“ of the French people at that time to demand such liberty and that it was later, in the course of revolutionary struggles, suppressed by the usurpators of the popular sovereignty. As a matter of fact, Constant believed that the whole concept of popular sovereignty, invented by the m…
Singing in Paul’s Cult of the Possessed by Jesus’ Spirit
In the article the authors are dealing with Paul’s cult of the possessed by the spirit of the late magician Jesus, as well as with the place and the meaning of singing in its two main rituals: ritual meal and ritual conjuring of Jesus’ spirit. The conclusion of the analysis is that both rituals had the same two-part structure. Ritual meal consisted of love feast (agape), where the members of the cult were supposed to sing appropriate songs togeth…
Max Weber’s theory of Männerbund
Considering that Max Weber?s theory of the ?men?s union (Mannerbund)? is still unsurpassed today, despite the fact that it was not syst ematically developed anywhere, the authors undertook its reconstruction from the many fragments left behind after his death, primarily in the book Economy and Society. Although Weber is rightly considered to have paid the most attention to the phenomenon of warrior communism in his discussions of the Mannerbund, …
Franz Boas’ Postulate of the Warfare Origin of Secret Societies and Myths about the “Culture Heroˮ and the “Tricksterˮ in North America
In this paper, the authors argue that Franz Boas had a coherent theory of the secret society, which he did not systematically develop anywhere, but which can be reconstructed from several of his works. The authors are not dealing with the whole theory, but only with the postulate of the warfare origin of secret societies (which later became the foundation of the Männerbund theory). Namely, Boas believed that the secret societies of the North Amer…
Idea of „homosexual fascists“ revisited
In this article, the authors address the question of whether ?homosexual fascists? should be treated as a mere ?cliche? or as an idea that contains some scientific value. After a short introductory part, the problem of homosexuality in two influential pre-war theories of mass psychology ? Freud?s and Reich?s ? are examined and then their achivements are evaluated from the perspective of five most imprtant Hitler?s statements about Rohm and his as…
Otto Hefler’s Theory of Germanic Warrior Männerbünde in the Third Reich
In the article, the authors deal with the works which were published by the Austrian Germanist Otto Höfler in the Third Reich and which were more or less dedicated to the Germanic warrior Männerbünde. The focus of their analysis is the book The Secret Cult Associations of the Germans (1934), derived from Höfler's habilitation thesis. In their opinion, Höfler expressed his fundamental scientific and ideological views in the second volume of this b…
Đinđić’s Political Legacy in Vučić’s Serbia. A Contribution to the Understanding of the Dynamics of the Revolutionary Rotation
In the paper, the author advocates the thesis that today’s authoritarian regime of Aleksandar Vučić implements the policy inaugurated by Zoran Đinđić while he was the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia (2001–2003). According to the author, that policy has three basic principles: 1) the speed in Serbia’s accession to the European Union (which proved to be nothing more than speed in getting and spending money from the funds of the European Un…
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