%0 Journal Article
%T Philosophiam profiteri or on Derrida's "declarative engagement"
%A Savi£¿ Mile V.
%J Filozofija i Dru£¿tvo
%D 2003
%I Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
%R 10.2298/fid0321165s
%X In this paper the author reconstructs the meaning of Derrida's concept of "declarative engagement". He shows that Derrida revives the modern idea of the "engaged intellectual" and even develops it in a radical, prophetic/messianic form. The final consequence of such a position, in the opinion of the author, is a paradoxical coupling of political decisionism with social escapism, which renews in a specific way the nostalgia for the "heroic role" of the Marxist intellectual vanguard. This is a major reason for Derrida's popularity in Serbia, it is argued, but can also be taken as the starting point for an analysis of the problem of responsibility of engaged intellectuals.
%K deconstruction
%K politics of friendship
%K declarative engagement
%K messianism
%U http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2003/0353-57380321165S.pdf