The master's thesis discusses the field of activity of the cultural and social left from a philosophical and historical perspective. In the first part the left is placed in contemporary and relevant events that are marked by a time of high unwavering capitalism and by a time marked by the supremacy of the dictatorship of capital. In the second part the left is placed in the time of the previous century, a time marked by the supremacy of the dictatorship of ideology. The thesis offers a thorough reflection on the principles of our European humanism, and it is this humanism that is active in our area in the ideal, social, and especially in the cultural field. In the first part the thesis mainly sheds light on the characteristics of the cultural left today, which has lost that which is most important: solidarity, hope, utopia and rebelliousness. It lacks the hopeful utopian ideal of a better future, that which is primary and the foundation of humanism itself. The thesis listens carefully to the selected thinkers (Rorty, Kocbek, Bloch, Adorno …) and in the second part the thesis sheds light on the left and its path of development in the socialist Yugoslavian space and thus discusses the selected groups (Kocbek and the workers group, regime and cultural workers after World War II and the cultural left in the 1980s).
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