Apocalypse without revelation: Svetozar Stojanovic on the possibility of self-destruction of humanity
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: The possibility of self-destruction of the humanity presents a constant accompanying topic in all books of Svetozar Stojanovic written after his doctoral dissertation in metaethics. Whatever topics being elaborated, there would always be something on this matter. At the beginning these were only incidental observations and a possible standpoint on the main topic, but later it became more often a distinctive field of observation or even a prevailing perspective. In this paper the author reconstructs considerations of Stojanovic on this topic in the light of his apocalyptic terminology. Since Stojanovic refers to apocalypse in the secular sense, I name it, in a straightforward opposition to its original meaning, the apocalypse without revelation. It is the apocalypse in which the cataclysmic aspect is the only left and I demonstrate that this term follows Stojanovic?s original intentions faithfully. In the paper, I present and comment on all the stages of Stojanovic?s work on this topic, thus claiming that it constitutes the only constant in philosophical and political phases of his thought.
Source: Theoria Beograd
DOI: 10.2298/theo1204113p
Author: Aleksandar Prnjat
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Award: G6987452121
OpenAlex ID: W2062469008