Serbian Standpoint v. 'Yugoslav Ideology'

• In Event: Yugoslav (Re)Visions I: Comparative anti-Yugoslavism

Abstract

This brief presentation takes as its main case study Milo Lompar’s book “The Spirit of Self-Denial”, which has been promoted as, arguably, one of the most influential books of political philosophy in Serbia in the last two decades. Much of Lompar’s “standpoint” is based on the critique of the idea of Yugoslavism in Serbia during the second half of the 20th century. In a classical conservative maneuver, Lompar criticizes Yugoslavism as “ideology” in order to posit Serbian nationalism as extra-ideological.

Author

• Branislav Jakovljevic, Stanford U