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Modernity and Contemporaneity: An Introduction

Modernity and Contemporaneity, 2022

Modernity and Contemporaneity is the 3 rd volume in the Hellenic-Serbian Philosophical Dialogue Series, a project that was initiated as an emphatic token of the will and commitment to establish permanent and fruitful collaboration between two strongly bonded Departments of Philosophy, this of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and that of the University of Novi Sad respectively. This collaboration was founded from the very beginning upon friendship, mutual respect and strong engagement, as well us upon our firm resolution to establish a solid continuity in the editing project. The publication of this volume allows us to entertain feelings of contentment and confidence that this objective of the project has been accomplished. Yet, next to the above, a parallel and equally significant project has also been initiated, i.e. one of philosophical reflection that is nourished by our collaborative effort, but has surpassed the self-referential mode that is inherent in the idea proper of a common project. In the series, a sincere attempt to think the present has been expanded by both the editors and the authors that they are kind enough to engage their writing production in the publication planning of the series. The 1 st volume in the Series focused on Thinking in Action, while the 2 nd discussed the notion of Personhood. This 3 rd volume turns even more resolutely to the philosophical hic et nunc, as it is being understood in two cultural and philosophical environments of the European South with a solid tradition of association and reciprocal attachment. What can be said about contemporaneity, the historical and intellectual environment we live in, and still is not entirely within our grasp and control? This question is the one that provided the initial spark for our quest, and serves as the backbone of this volume.

Modernity as a discourse from history to Philosophy Part II

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The word ‘Modernity’ and ‘Modernism’ emerged from the historical relativism, which is itself is a sort of criticism of tradition. The aesthetic modernity, which has disguised itself in the form of ‘Romanticism’, the terminology which Stendhal brought from the Italians confers “the art of presenting to the people the literary work, which in the view of the present day state of their customs and beliefs affords the utmost possible pleasure”. In contrast, the whole discourse of Romanticism emerged as a revolt against the classicism because for Stendhal Romanticism is a sole aesthetic program. According to famous American critic Lionel Trilling, Romanticism has developed an ‘adversary culture’ in opposition to classicism.

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Contemporaneity and its Discontents - diacritics 41:1

Contemporaneity is in fashion. In philosophical debates, in literary criticism, in political theory, and even more persistently in the realm of art, never before have we discussed and published so much on "the contemporary." However, this apparent desire for contemporaneity disguises-and at times reveals-a conflicting disposition. A tangible discontent with contemporaneity and a theoretically grounded attempt to avoid the present emerge symptomatically in the current debate on the contemporary. To make things thornier, such attempts to withdraw and create distance from the present are often cloaked under the deceptive guise of a search for and affirmation of contemporaneity. In this respect, Giorgio Agamben's brief and much-quoted essay "What Is the Contemporary?" is in many ways an exemplary case. This discontent or disquiet with the contemporary, this denial of contemporaneity-its philosophical and political significance-is what I will discuss.

Greece and/or Modernity: Some Reflections towards a 'Hermeneutic' Approach on Greek Modernities

The explosion of the current Greek crisis after 2009 triggered various and contradicted theoretical approaches which searched for the strict identification of the deepest roots of crisis’ economic, political, and cultural aspects. In spite of their differences, many of them seemed to reach by different ways at the same conclusion. The Greek Sonderweg from the 18th century onwards, and especially after the inauguration of the Modern Greek state, was considered responsible for the current crisis, either in the sense of a deviance from an alleged “European norm” or in that of the culmination of a Western-origin distortion of one undetermined indigenous “essence”. Drawing insights from seminal works of Modern Greek historiography and combining them with certain strands of Modernity Studies, I attempt to pose some questions as far as Greek modernity is concerned. I am interesting in the articulation of a so-called ‘hermeneutic’ approach which will show a greater sensitivity to the contingencies and ambivalences of modernity as such, and, specifically, of Greek modernity and its multiple faces. In this sense, today I would like to make some theoretical observations and to pose some questions which are moved towards this researching orientation.

Kronos Philosophical Journal, vol.V/2016

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The annual <em>Kronos Philosophical Journal</em> was established in Warsaw in 2012. The papers presented in the annual might be of interest to the readers from outside Poland, allowing them to familiarize themselves with the dynamic thought of contemporary Polish authors, as well as entirely new topics, rarely discussed by English speaking authors. Volume V/2016 comprises articles problematizing Russian phlosophy and literature as well as Ancient Greek philosophy and culture.

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