Naslov
Does anxiety have tranformative potential for international politics? Possible applications of Jaspers' early work on dread, guilt and anxiety

Autori
Buzar, Stipe

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Skup
CEEISA-ISA Belgrade 2019: International Relations in the Age of Anxiety

Mjesto i datum
Beograd, Srbija, 17.06.2019. - 19.06.2019

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Ključne riječi
Karl Jaspers, Anxiety, Power, Communities

Sažetak
The German psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers was, alongside Martin Heidegger, the most memorable German existentialist philosopher of the 20th century. Although his more notable work in political ethics and philosophy would come in his later works, his early writings grappled with difficult existentialist subjects such as the human experience of dread, guilt and anxiety. Jaspers' singular contribution to the subject is that he explains those experiences as experiences accompanying what he called limit situations (Grenzsituationen) - situations in which the mind confronts its own pathological restrictions and narrowness. This also means that the emergence of such experiences can be taken as a signal that one has currently found themselves in a limit situation and needs to outgrow its current restrictions and narrowness. The paper has two basic goals. First, to explore whether Jaspers' position can be applied to entire political communities, rather than just individuals. Second, to explore the possibility of the current anxieties present in international politics being a result of a international political limit situation, and to see how that informs possible changes in our international relations theories.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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