The first chapter of the paper summarizes the devaluation process of the humanistic values that has begun in the West a few decades ago. The question is why and how the so-called knowledge societies marginalize humanistic knowledge. The second, third, and fourth chapters are the proposal of the mission of the humanities today: pushed out to society’s periphery, the humanities have the task of preserving skills, experiences, and knowledge that so-called knowledge society considers needless. Thereby, the paper advocates the importance of returning to philology, as Paul de Man puts it in his article Return to Philology, and tries to show the extent to which philology, ceasing to be national, becomes a communal, political and ethical force.

No abstract

Polazeći od psihijatrijskog slučaja Miloša Krpana, jednog od naših prvih socijalista i anarhista, koji je koncem 19. stoljeća dva puta primljen u Kraljevski zemaljski zavod za umobolne u Stenjevcu, radom se pokušava pokazati kako onodobna psihijatrija, sudjelujući u procesu oblikovanja hrvatskog građanskog društva, osim medicinskog znanja, razvija i normalizacijsku moć. Psihijatrija pacificira otpor sustavu tako što ga izmješta u Zavod te ga ondje ispituje, obrađuje, svladava i disciplinira. Istodobno sebi pribavlja znanstveni legitimitet i stječe društveni status proizvodeći kategoriju nenormalnosti te razvijajući tehnike za njezino suzbijanje. Tako preuzima odgovornost za ćudoređe, sigurnost i čistoću društva, a povezujući se sa sudskom praksom postaje nositelj pravne moći. Drugim riječima, osim što nastoji liječiti ludilo, psihijatrija se javlja kao stroj društvene discipline uspostavljajući moderne oblike normalizacijske moći u mladom buržoazijskom kapitalističkom društvu druge polovice 19. stoljeća.

Leather has been an important natural polymer undergoing aging when exposed to physical (temperature, radiation) and chemical (oxygen, water, metal ions) deteriogens. Degradation of collagen and changes of mechanical properties of leather are the consequences. The aging has beell influenced by tan process, by changes of pH due to chemical degradation and by losses of fat due to extraction or blooming. The understanding of degradation process taking place in leather is necessary for the restoration of aged products from leather having a historical value. EINLEITUNGEine Verschlechterung der Ledereigenschaften und Beschadigung infolge der Alterungsprozesse stellen ein Problem dar, das fur Industriezweige, die mit Herstellung und Verwendung von Leder verbunden sind, bedeutend 1st. Die Alterung, die durch atmospharische Faktoren ISauerstoff, Ozon, Feuchtigkeit, Temperatur) oder durch Salze der Metallen hervorgerufen ist, verursacht meistens eine Veranderung der Farbe des Leders infolge der Oberflachenoxidation, oder eine Rissbildung infolge der Degradation. Das Leder wird hornern und trocknen infolge des Fett-und Feuchtigkeitverlustes. Haufig kommt es zum teilweisen Verfaulen des Leders infolge des korrosiven Vortrag anlasslich des 19. Donaulandergesprachs iiber "Atmospharische Alterung und Stabilisierung von Polymeren" in Prag ITschechoslovakei), vom 24. -29. Juli 1989 0 1990 Huthig & Wepf Verlag. Barel

The paper starts from the assumption that Croatian modern lyric, from Matoš to Maleš, is haunted by various monsters, phantoms and mutants, and possessed by ghosts. Phantasmal hair speaks, the body changed by illness acquires autonomy, bird-men, space-twins and angels inhabit the humanized world, the dead seek eternity, the turtle measures itʼs own existence in relation to space and time, and Jesus-fish according to the degree of its own evolutionary transformation, while language cyborgs and hybrid beings are born. The lyric about monsters is itself a monstrous discourse. In this discourse human existence is necessarily contaminated by the abhuman and the parahuman, language includes its own mutations, and the encounter with meaning depends on the ultimate deformation, hybridization and disappearance of meaning. Thus, in the very center of our humanity, in the artistic form that determines the measure of the humanity of our community, questions about what is humane and inhumane, how to determine the boundary between them, and is not the general understanding of humanity always-already determined by oneʼs own inhuman or a-human are raised. Looking at a series of lyric texts, the paper will analyze these relationships and subsequently show their possible political and legal effects. I will refer to theoreticians who read the lyric as a linguistic event and performative type of utterance (J. Culler, P. de Man, B. Johnson, and others) and to thinkers who, to say it simply, perceive the ideas of equality, law and justice as phantasmal, mutated, scandalous or monstrous democracy (G. Agamben, J. Rancière, J. Derrida, J-L. Nancy and others).