Two faces of global open society

• Main Author: Cvetićanin Neven
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade 2008-01-01
• Series: Filozofija i Društvo
• Subjects: post-civil political centre; open society; enemies; margin; terrorism; organised crime; local legitimates; Fukuyama; end of history; polemics
• Online Access: http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2008/0353-57380803059C.pdf

The Essay considers 'the rule' of the so called post-civil political centre that corresponds to the familiar concept of open society, questioning the good as well as the bad sides of such 'rule'. The research is in the first place about global open society stability and attention is addressed to its present enemies - from terrorism, over organized crime, all the way to the so called local legitimates that are confronting the universal and global legitimates represented by the followers of the open society from the post civil political centre area. The Essay presents the debate with Fukuyama's thesis about the 'end of history' considering that open society, i.e. global post civil political centre has visible enemies who do not allow for dialectics of history to stand still as Fukuyama believed. Instead of Fukuyama's 'end of history' the Essay comes to the conclusion that present global situation is marked by post-modern opposition of liberal-democratic post civil centre and extreme anti civil margins, with reference to the opposition of open society and its enemies, which will put under limits further steps of history towards new socio-historical forms.