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Filosofija palanke
Konstatinović minuciozno analizira provincijsku (palanačku) svest i oblike njenog ispoljavanja i za ovu njegovu knjigu kažu da je bez nje nemoguće do kraja razumeti srpsku istoriju 19. i 20. veka. "Palanka nije u svetu, ona je u duhu, svud moguća..."
Na nizu primera pokazujući kako nam je gotovo sve palanačko, Konstantinović analizira stil kao najviše načelo palanke, ideal čistog siromaštva, sentimentalizam i sarkazam, ateizam, trajni infantilizam, realizam, banalnost, nihilizam tamnog vilajeta, egzistenciju kao besmislen rad, lenjost kao rad zatvorenog sveta palanke, politicki vašar, ideal organske kulture, srpski nacizam, itd.
Na nizu primera pokazujući kako nam je gotovo sve palanačko, Konstantinović analizira stil kao najviše načelo palanke, ideal čistog siromaštva, sentimentalizam i sarkazam, ateizam, trajni infantilizam, realizam, banalnost, nihilizam tamnog vilajeta, egzistenciju kao besmislen rad, lenjost kao rad zatvorenog sveta palanke, politicki vašar, ideal organske kulture, srpski nacizam, itd.
- GenresPhilosophyNonfiction
400 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1969
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About the author
Radomir Konstantinović
23 books12 followersRadomir Konstantinović je bio srpski književnik i filozof. Bio je član Literarne redakcije Radio Beograda od 1949-1951. godine. Uređivao je časopis "Mladost", "Književne novine" i dvonedeljnik "Danas". Više decenija bio je saradnik Trećeg programa Radio Beograda.
Konstantinović je počeo kao pesnik, sa zbirkom stihova „Kuća bez krova“, da bi se posvetio romanu i objavio čitav niz eksperimentalnih projekata i modernih dela: „Daj nam danas“, „Mišolovka“, „Čisti i prljavi“, „Izlazak“ (NIN-ova nagrada 1960. godine) i „Ahasver ili traktat o pivskoj flaši“.
Konstantinović je počeo kao pesnik, sa zbirkom stihova „Kuća bez krova“, da bi se posvetio romanu i objavio čitav niz eksperimentalnih projekata i modernih dela: „Daj nam danas“, „Mišolovka“, „Čisti i prljavi“, „Izlazak“ (NIN-ova nagrada 1960. godine) i „Ahasver ili traktat o pivskoj flaši“.
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May 13, 2022
Hmmmm... šta reći posle ovoliko vremena posvećenog čitanju knjige gde pisac ne ume da koristi interpunkciju, ponavlja misli u krug, izmišlja reči, koristi izuzetno rogobatan stil... a sve to da prenese neke izuzetno bitne i interesantne ideje, ali i neke koje su vrhunac destruktivnog individualizma i manjka samosvesti i saosećanja?
Konstantinović kritikuje "srpski mentalitet" vrlo pronicljivim zapažanjima. U prvoj polovini knjige (pre dodataka), gotovo svaki deo je imao ponešto što mi je dalo ideje, izmenilo kako gledam na neke stvari, ili mi dalo način da formulišem i iskažem nešto što već dugo verujem. Ipak, uz tako nespretan i prenatrpan stil i tako napornu tematiku, pročitati ovu knjigu je bilo pravi podvig i, iskreno, mučenje.
S druge strane, kroz Konstantinovićeva zapažanja se provlači i vrlo neprijatna crta osude ljudske želje za zajednicom, ideje da ljudi u zajednici jedni drugima pomažu i da mogu, na bilo koji način, da budu jedni drugima neophodni, kao i veličanje bogatstva i kapitalističkog individualizma iznad umetnosti, ljubavi, zajednice...
Dakle, moje konačno mišljenje je: iz ove knjige sam izvukla dosta dobrog i interesantnog, a odbacila dosta nebitnog i diskutabilnog, kao što je i red s stručnom literaturom. Proces čitanja je bio naporan i neprijatan. Ako razmišljate da li da i vi pročitate "Filosofiju palanke", preporučila bih vam da ipak možda potražite odlomke koji vam se čine interesantni ili neki detaljniji komentar na knjigu, da se ne zamarate i ne traćite vreme.
Konstantinović kritikuje "srpski mentalitet" vrlo pronicljivim zapažanjima. U prvoj polovini knjige (pre dodataka), gotovo svaki deo je imao ponešto što mi je dalo ideje, izmenilo kako gledam na neke stvari, ili mi dalo način da formulišem i iskažem nešto što već dugo verujem. Ipak, uz tako nespretan i prenatrpan stil i tako napornu tematiku, pročitati ovu knjigu je bilo pravi podvig i, iskreno, mučenje.
S druge strane, kroz Konstantinovićeva zapažanja se provlači i vrlo neprijatna crta osude ljudske želje za zajednicom, ideje da ljudi u zajednici jedni drugima pomažu i da mogu, na bilo koji način, da budu jedni drugima neophodni, kao i veličanje bogatstva i kapitalističkog individualizma iznad umetnosti, ljubavi, zajednice...
Dakle, moje konačno mišljenje je: iz ove knjige sam izvukla dosta dobrog i interesantnog, a odbacila dosta nebitnog i diskutabilnog, kao što je i red s stručnom literaturom. Proces čitanja je bio naporan i neprijatan. Ako razmišljate da li da i vi pročitate "Filosofiju palanke", preporučila bih vam da ipak možda potražite odlomke koji vam se čine interesantni ili neki detaljniji komentar na knjigu, da se ne zamarate i ne traćite vreme.
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October 13, 2023i started reading this because of the very good excerpts from it quoted in Belladonna, which seemed very observant to me, a guy who lives in a place with a parochial culture. but i had to stop reading it because the prose became too densely hegelian for me to wade through. in the earlier sections that i did read there were some very incisive and well written passages that stuck with me, and it kind of seems like a lot of his notions of parochialism can be applied, in addition to nations or societies that we would conventionally regard as parochial, to contemporary popular culture in general. however this is mostly just an impression based on the parts of the book that i was able to read and his arguments later on might go off in totally different directions.
"Provinciality is the instinctively defensive cultivation of the provincial style as universal. A provincial has an exceptionally strong sense of style, having an exceptionally strong sense of collectivity, frozen (or personified) in that style. The big "world" is the one which, through a multitude of possibilities (styles), destroys this unity of style, its uniformity. The parochial spirit is the spirit is the spirit of uniformity, in the first place, one of a ready-made solution, a pattern, a highly defined form. When a provincial individual guards the province as supreme will, his superego, he primarily guards this style of uniformity, and, therefore, when he fears the world, fears going out into the world, he fears going out into the world without style. The accusation most frequently thrown into a provincial's face, that of being a man without style, is absolutely incompatible with the provincial spirit, which is a spirit of collective will, the uniformity of that will's expression and, consequently, itself a spirit of style."
"The world of the province finds observance of well established customs more important than being a person."
"Infantilism correlates with the parochial spirit. It is impossible to be of parochial mind without being infantile: the parochial spirit, as the spirit of superego, the spirit of collective will that has taken us under its wing and protects us from everything, primarily from our own selves, from all challenges and temptations called I(personal responsibility and personal enterprise), is necessarily the spirit that initiates into infantilism. It demands, extorts infantilism as protective, as a spirit superimposed on everything individual."
"Province dislikes the unknown, on principle; that is one of its main features, characterising its history, its culture, its mental world. The province rejects it not only in its actuality, but also in time. It dislikes the unknown in the past, just as it does not care for it in the future."
"The tyranny of province is the tyranny of insight into everything, or the tyranny of this absolute clarity and publicity of everything. Province is incompatible with darkness and its demonology. Even if an exception can be found, its behaviour is grammatical: it confirms and glorifies the rule, but by itself merits only contempt and derision. The reason for this being an exception is understood as a flaw that, for its part, deserves to be laughed at by the parochial spirit. The urge to mock anything irregular, anything out of the ordinary, is extremely strong in the parochial spirit and goes all the way to the nonrecognition (through mockery) of even physical deviations of individuals."
"They are impure, the provincial is pure. His life, stylistically reduced, with pre-given answers to long-posed questions (he will go on repeating these questions, thus turning them into quasi questions), is an innocent life, as "pure" as a prolonged infantilism of the spirit forever "sheltered" under the wing of one's elder must be, a spirit that is still the one of a son who has remained faithful and, following the inherited rules, carries out his life. Life is one of routine, safe in the security that this routine offers; styled in the manner only routine can provide, envisaged by that routine's lifesaving patterns."
"Provinciality is the instinctively defensive cultivation of the provincial style as universal. A provincial has an exceptionally strong sense of style, having an exceptionally strong sense of collectivity, frozen (or personified) in that style. The big "world" is the one which, through a multitude of possibilities (styles), destroys this unity of style, its uniformity. The parochial spirit is the spirit is the spirit of uniformity, in the first place, one of a ready-made solution, a pattern, a highly defined form. When a provincial individual guards the province as supreme will, his superego, he primarily guards this style of uniformity, and, therefore, when he fears the world, fears going out into the world, he fears going out into the world without style. The accusation most frequently thrown into a provincial's face, that of being a man without style, is absolutely incompatible with the provincial spirit, which is a spirit of collective will, the uniformity of that will's expression and, consequently, itself a spirit of style."
"The world of the province finds observance of well established customs more important than being a person."
"Infantilism correlates with the parochial spirit. It is impossible to be of parochial mind without being infantile: the parochial spirit, as the spirit of superego, the spirit of collective will that has taken us under its wing and protects us from everything, primarily from our own selves, from all challenges and temptations called I(personal responsibility and personal enterprise), is necessarily the spirit that initiates into infantilism. It demands, extorts infantilism as protective, as a spirit superimposed on everything individual."
"Province dislikes the unknown, on principle; that is one of its main features, characterising its history, its culture, its mental world. The province rejects it not only in its actuality, but also in time. It dislikes the unknown in the past, just as it does not care for it in the future."
"The tyranny of province is the tyranny of insight into everything, or the tyranny of this absolute clarity and publicity of everything. Province is incompatible with darkness and its demonology. Even if an exception can be found, its behaviour is grammatical: it confirms and glorifies the rule, but by itself merits only contempt and derision. The reason for this being an exception is understood as a flaw that, for its part, deserves to be laughed at by the parochial spirit. The urge to mock anything irregular, anything out of the ordinary, is extremely strong in the parochial spirit and goes all the way to the nonrecognition (through mockery) of even physical deviations of individuals."
"They are impure, the provincial is pure. His life, stylistically reduced, with pre-given answers to long-posed questions (he will go on repeating these questions, thus turning them into quasi questions), is an innocent life, as "pure" as a prolonged infantilism of the spirit forever "sheltered" under the wing of one's elder must be, a spirit that is still the one of a son who has remained faithful and, following the inherited rules, carries out his life. Life is one of routine, safe in the security that this routine offers; styled in the manner only routine can provide, envisaged by that routine's lifesaving patterns."
July 16, 2018
Autor se posvađao s tačkom/točkom. (and it's a problem.)
Knjiga se bavi zanimljivom tematikom (naslov sve kaže), sadržajno je bogata i obiluje referencama. Ne može se reći da je manjkalo truda pri izradi i za to je visoko cijenim.
Ipak, piščev stil ponekada previše odvlači od tog istog sadržaja. Ne bih da ulazim u njegovu umjetničku viziju, ali mnogo bi bolje funkcionirala kao zbirka unekoliko stesanih i koherentnijih eseja. Ovako je intelektualno zadovoljavajuća, ali tu i tamo dosta bolna za čitanje. (sama činjenica da cijelu recenziju posvećujem stilu govori dovoljno). Ako tražite nešto pitko, ovo nije to. Ali ako ste znatiželjni i imate koncentraciju i volju, vrijedi prelistati.
Knjiga se bavi zanimljivom tematikom (naslov sve kaže), sadržajno je bogata i obiluje referencama. Ne može se reći da je manjkalo truda pri izradi i za to je visoko cijenim.
Ipak, piščev stil ponekada previše odvlači od tog istog sadržaja. Ne bih da ulazim u njegovu umjetničku viziju, ali mnogo bi bolje funkcionirala kao zbirka unekoliko stesanih i koherentnijih eseja. Ovako je intelektualno zadovoljavajuća, ali tu i tamo dosta bolna za čitanje. (sama činjenica da cijelu recenziju posvećujem stilu govori dovoljno). Ako tražite nešto pitko, ovo nije to. Ali ako ste znatiželjni i imate koncentraciju i volju, vrijedi prelistati.
March 10, 2025
Apstraktna filozofija. Teorije koje sam razumela se radije mogu primeniti na čitav svet, nego na palanku. U jednom trenutku, postalo je suviše apstraktno, iako mi filozofija i sociologija nisu strane, suviše je dosadno, bez konkretizacije u vidu primera. Ako je palanački genij zapravo ludak ili ništavilo, nebiće, zar ne treba da vidimo konkretizaciju toga na primeru? I, khm, srpski nacizam? Šta je, zaboga, srpski nacizam? :)
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