Open AccessThe institution of group and genocidal acts
Author(s) -
Petar Bojanić
Publication year - 2013
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/fid1303123b
Subject(s) - institution , group (periodic table) , genocide , meaning (existential) , social group , construct (python library) , word (group theory) , sociology , epistemology , social psychology , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , political science , law , social science , computer science , chemistry , organic chemistry , programming language
This critique is focused on a small theory regarding the constituting of a group through the simultaneous exclusion of some other group. Is it possible, then, to produce social and nonsocial acts (negative social acts) at the same time? Or is it possible to construct a group which acts ‘genocidally’, meaning that it destroys another group or “the groupness” of a group, and at the same time affirm its own unity and its ontological stability? (I have used the word ‘institution’ in the title, since we are dealing with a group that is lasting, and not temporary.) Finally, does this thematization of the group through intergroup antagonism have anything to do with Lemkin’s word genocide’