Open AccessRevolution with and without the mask
Author(s) -
Vladan Milanko
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
filozofija i društvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2334-8577
pISSN - 0353-5738
DOI - 10.2298/fid1002053m
Subject(s) - objectivity (philosophy) , epistemology , communism , aesthetics , subject (documents) , motif (music) , philosophy , democracy , sociology , law , political science , politics , computer science , library science
This paper is an attempt to provide a certain “second reading” of those commonplaces which imply that a particular, personal interest always lies behind the mask of objectivity, necessity and truth. As a paradigmatic example of this kind of structure that implies “hidden truths”, here will be taken that of a revolution, whether it is a fascist, a liberal-democratic or a communist revolution. By reexamining how this motif of “truth-behind-the-mask” figures in those regimes, we will try to say something about each of them, and also about the specific kind of subject that is produced under them