Discours à la nation européenne

Benda, Julien

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“…Objašnjenje je, dakako, bilo tehničke naravi. Jer francuski jezik navodno savršeno zrcali duh racionalizma kakav se očekuje od nove nadnacionalne forme Europe (Benda 1933(Benda /1993cf. Müller 2006: 125-137).…”

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Mi, s rubova Europe: Sumorni jezik i „slavenska duša”

Paić¹

2015

10.14746/pss

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Mi, s rubova Europe: Sumorni jezik i "slavenska duša"Dalekim poljskim prijateljima Gombrowicz ili o pobuni egzistencijeIskustvo moderne povijesti Europe može se nazvati praksom razaranja jezika kao forme duhovnoga bitka. Jezik posjeduje mističnu moć u višezna-čnome kazivanju istine. Zbog toga se čak i u doba-bez-riječi određeno prelaskom u posthumano stanje digitalne slike osjeća potreba za uspostavom nove opće gramatike. Tko želi govoriti o duhovnome identitetu Europe u moderno doba, ne može zanijekati da se svijest o nužnosti destrukcije jezika pojavljuje drugim početkom "naroda" izvan bilo kakve redukcije na mitske slike o veličini i žrtvi povijesti. Povijesna avangarda prve polovine 20. stoljeća bila je univerzalna forma preusmjeravanja povijesti iz bezuvjetnoga napretka u spirale budućnosti. Zagledana istodobno u iskon i ono nadolazeće, avangarda je otvarala nove perspektive duhovnoga razvitka. Posvuda se zbivalo ono "Isto" u razlikama: ruska avangarda i ukrajinska, poljska i talijanska, njemačka i francuska. Nisu više važne nacionalne razlike. Presudne su razlike u pristupu jeziku i slici onoga nadolazećega u suigri kaosa i forme. Jedan od pouzdanih svjedoka ovoga dugovjeka događanja u vlastitome labirintu znakova zacijelo je poljski književnik Witold Gombrowicz. Prethodnik egzistencijalnoga nemira epohe kraja individuuma u doba planetarne tehnike u romanu Ferdydurke napisanome 1937. godine govori o sukobu između stvaranja i razaranja forme. Jezik se ponajprije pojavljuje svezom ideje i kazivanja događaja s kojim nastaje susret. Dramatski susret nije, međutim, susret između Dvojega, subjekta i njegova dvojnika. Susret je to s licem Drugoga. U svojoj drugosti taj Drugi uvijek je uistinu netko Treći.

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Mi, s rubova Europe: Sumorni jezik i „slavenska duša”

Paić¹

2015

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“…The other was the tradition of Greek and French rationalism, that flourished in modern science and united people through its supranational character. The Europe that Benda preferred, Francophile despite himself, was based on the latter, 'scientific' tradition (Benda 1933).…”

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A History of Universalism: Conceptions of the Internationality of Science from the Enlightenment to the Cold War

Somsen

2008

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That science is fundamentally universal has been proclaimed innumerable times. But the precise geographical meaning of this universality has changed historically. This article examines conceptions of scientific internationalism from the Enlightenment to the Cold War, and their varying relations to cosmopolitanism, nationalism, socialism, and 'the West'. These views are confronted with recent tendencies to cast science as a uniquely European product.

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“…12 From the beginning of the Discours à la nation européenne, the author was aware of the untimely nature of his proposal. 13 Like the earlier work, it considered Germany and France's cultural and political relationship to be decisive. In this context, just as the Reden an die deutsche Nation by Johann Gottlieb Fichte 14 had represented the 'catéchisme du nationalisme' 15 expressed at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Benda had composed his 'discourses' as a sort of new and necessary 'catechism of Europe': 'Europe se fera, ici, comme s'est faite la nation'.…”

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“…6 After having provoked an intense debate with this book from 1927, Julien Benda published La Fin de l'Éternel in 1929. 7 Some years later, he returned in an original way to the theme of the relationship between intellectuals and politics, with the Discours à la nation européenne, 8 'his most important declaration on international questions and the basis of much of his later activity for a unified Europe'. 9 Written between June and December 1932, 10 the pamphlet was printed on 28 March 1933, a few weeks after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor of the Weimar Republic.…”

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“…7 Some years later, he returned in an original way to the theme of the relationship between intellectuals and politics, with the Discours à la nation européenne, 8 'his most important declaration on international questions and the basis of much of his later activity for a unified Europe'. 9 Written between June and December 1932, 10 the pamphlet was printed on 28 March 1933, a few weeks after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor of the Weimar Republic. 11 From January 1933, though, in three following issues, it had already appeared in 'La Nouvelle Revue Française', as happened at the time also to La Trahison des clercs.…”

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Julien Benda’s political Europe and the treason of intellectuals

Cadeddu

2022

History of European Ideas

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Whenever the problem of the relationship between culture and politics is addressed, Julien Benda undoubtedly remains the most frequently mentioned author at the international level. His indictment of the intellectuals' betrayal is as famous as his speeches to the European nation, published in 1933, about five years later than his widely diffused La Trahison des clercs. Throughout the Discours à la nation européenne, the author explicitly addresses the intellectuals already mentioned in his previous essay and asks them to assume responsibilitybecoming protagonists of a new moral revolution. His intention was to reply to Fichte's well-known Reden an die deutsche Nation. The idea of Europe could be built to transcend nations, manifesting itself as the individual's renunciation of himself. In this way, the idea of Europe might appear as a 'moral act': renouncing the distinct and the finite and turning to unity and infinity. Benda was aware of the possible rise of a type of 'Europhile nationalism'. To prevent this, he saw it necessary to avoid the closure of the nation and prolong this movement of association so that it might increase its tendency to be inclusive. The political vision of Europe that Julien Benda hoped for should not generate European sovereignty. But, by prompting intellectuals to follow practical and political methods, he consciously exploits their rolestated in La Trahison des clercswith the hope of building the moral and political framework of a united Europe.

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Discours à la nation européenne

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Mi, s rubova Europe: Sumorni jezik i „slavenska duša”

Mi, s rubova Europe: Sumorni jezik i „slavenska duša”

A History of Universalism: Conceptions of the Internationality of Science from the Enlightenment to the Cold War

Julien Benda’s political Europe and the treason of intellectuals

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