SOPHOS: A Young Researchers’ Journal

Donald Davidson - Nekoherentnost i iracionalnost / Donald Davidson - Incoherence and Irrationality

Nijaz Ibrulj — 2024-12-20

Translated from: Donald Davidson (2024): Problems of Rationality. Oxford University Press, 189-198 pages.

David Harvey - Geopolitika Kapitalizma / David Harvey - The Geopolitics of Capitalism

Adnan Hatibović — 2024-12-20

Translated from: Harvey, D. (2020): The Anti-capitalist Chronicles. London: Pluto Press. The Geopolitics of Capitalism, Chapter 8.

Markus Kohl - Nietzsche Vs. Kant O Mogućnosti Racionalne Samokritike / Markus Kohl - Nietzsche Versus Kant on the Possibility of Rational Self-critique

Omar Mahmutović — 2024-12-20

Translated from: Kohl, M. (2024): Nietzsche Versus Kant on the Possibility of Rational Self-Critique. U: Valdez, E. (ed.) (2024): Rethinking Kant, Volumen 7. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Slobodan Šnajder (2023): Anđeo nestajanja (Zagreb: Fraktura, 448 str.)

Ivo Komšić — 2024-12-20

Book review: Anđeo nestajanja / Slobodan Šnajder. - 1. izd. - Zaprešić : Fraktura, 2023.

Jasenka Čakarić (2024): Urbana transformacija 1: od arhetipa i simbola do savremenog grada (Sarajevo: Univerzitet u Sarajevu – Arhitektonski fakultet, 210 str.)

Jelena Gaković — 2024-12-20

Book review: Urbana transformacija. 1 [Elektronski izvor] : od arhetipa i simbola do savremenog grada / Jasenka Čakarić. - El. knjiga. - Sarajevo : Arhitektonski fakultet Univerziteta, 2024.

Daniel Smyth (2024): Intuition in Kant: The Boundlesness of Sense (Cambridge University Press, 274 str.)

Omar Mahmutović — 2024-12-20

Book review: Daniel Smyth (2024): Intuition in Kant: The Boundlesness of Sense (Cambridge University Press).

Jeffrey Church (2022): Kant, Liberalism, and the Meaning of Life (Oxford University Press, 352 str.)

Adnan Hatibović — 2024-12-20

Book review: Jeffrey Church (2022): Kant, Liberalism, and the Meaning of Life (Oxford University Press).

Denis Jurić (2023): Božanstvena deponija (Opatija: ShuraPublikacije, 120 str.)

Jelena Bavrka — 2024-12-20

Book review: Denis Jurić (2023): Božanstvena deponija (Opatija: ShuraPublikacije).

Impressum

Editorial — 2024-12-20

Impressum

Biographical Notes and Contact of Authors / Biografske bilješke i kontakti autora

Editorial — 2024-12-20

Biographical notes and contact of authors.

Sadržaj / Content

Editorial — 2024-12-20

Content

Prevodivost metafore Derviša Sušića: roman “Uhode/Spies” / Translatability of Metaphors in Derviš Sušić: The Novel “Uhode/Spies”

Selma Đuliman — 2024-12-20

Derviš Sušić is undoubtedly one of the most versatile writers of the 20th century Bosnia and Herzegovina. His opus, characterised by a peculiar stylistic expression contains metaphors that make the storyline, otherwise set in a certain historical period, timeless, i.e., ever-current and again-enlightening. This paper aims at analysing metaphors in the translation of Sušić’s novel Uhode, published in English in 2017 by the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina as Spies. The methodological framework applied is Lakoff and Johnson’s linguistic approach, whereby the source text and the translation are compared within their source and target domains. In that sense, translatability, i.e. the possibility of achieving the identical content of the source and target domains in the translation is observed within Newmark’s model of translation strategies.

Spirited away – Analiza sadržaja filma u kontekstu relacije tradicionalnog i modernog / Spirited Away – Analysis of the Content of the Film in the Context of the Relationship of Traditional and Modern

Adnan Hatibović — 2024-12-20

In this paper, we deal with a critical analysis of the film Spirited Away and its related social and humanistic implications relevant for the understanding of some important aspects of high modernity. We will point out the 1. dimensions of the film that speak of the capitalist mode of human existence, 2. aporeticity in the understanding of social work, 3. the issue of consumerism, 4. cultural reconfiguration in the understanding of “multiple modernity”. 5. hectic relationship between the sociologically equivalent categories of traditionality and modernity.

Kolektivna trauma put ka teorijskoj konvergenciji / Collective Trauma the Road to Theoretical Convergence

Adnan Džafić — 2024-12-20

Social sciences are focused on analyzing the behavior of individuals, both as members of broader communities and networks, as well as examining wider aspects of social relationships, from personal and intimate to public and political. Contemporary analyses in social sciences also aim to investigate issues of identity, modern citizenship, migration, diversity, new technologies and the changes they provoke, as well as exploring the uncertain consequences of globalization processes. Today, the task of both sociology and social and political theory is to find new answers to the state of the epoch in which we find ourselves. This means addressing problems arising from the realm of human existence, whose solutions vary depending on the historical circumstances and cultures in which these issues arise. In this article, I attempt to outline possible responses to the aforementioned questions.

Razmeđa savremene sociologije ili put ka sintezi? / The Boundaries of Contemporary Sociology or the Road to Synthesis?

Adnan Džafić — 2024-12-20

Social reality appears ordered to the members of society only because they are actively involved in its creation. This period of order and regulation of social reality enables that reality to be understandable to its members. In order to survive, they must constitute a world of meaning and live within it. Without symbols there would be no human interaction and no human society. But the task of sociology is the “deconstruction” of symbols and their meanings and the construction of the world of meanings adopted by members of society on the way to building a community that strives for the “common good”. In order for new meanings not to become an “ideological network” for individuals and collectivities, the basis of sociological research should be focused on three levels of their analysis: epistemological-logical, structural-historical, anthropological-ontological. On this path, fundamental knowledge of social sciences and humanities is necessary. The choice of knowledge of scientific disciplines and their methods in deciphering the symbols of social reality will be conditioned by the need of the moment.

Nestabilnost optimalnosti i kalkulus rizika u Rescherovoj analizi racionalnosti / Instability of Optimality and the Calculus of Risk in Rescher’s Analysis of Rationality

Omar Mahmutović — 2024-12-20

This paper presents an analysis of Rescher’s conception of the mode of structuring and operation of human rationality, which Rescher approaches from a historical-philosophical, logical, and semantic matrix. The aim of this research is to explore the specific features of Rescher’s analysis of rationality through the lens of the instability of optimality and the calculus of risk, which emerge as essential presuppositions of his research. Rationality, understood in this context, has a threefold manifestation: as a procedural matrix, as a modus operandi, and as potential and materialization. This paper, drawing on Rescher’s original works and other relevant sources from the tradition of pragmatism, will explore his approach to this topic with a focus on what Rescher terms the instability of optimality and the calculus of risk.

“Mulan” (1998) u interpretaciji izvana ‒ fluidnost u službi samopotvrđivanja? / “Mulan” (1998) Interpreted from the Outside ‒ Fluidity in the Service of Self-affirmation

Kelima Ćatović — 2024-12-20

The perception of films is constantly changing in relation to different social changes and cultures. At the same time, it is necessary to keep in mind that the reception of the film depends on previous knowledge, social experiences, imposed dominant narratives and rules both broadly in the social field and narrowly within the artistic field. Film is not only a communication-discursive product, but also an artistic and aesthetic phenomenon, polysemic, often contradictory. Because of all this, recent film studies avoid master narratives and fundamental questions in their analyses. Taking the above into account, in this paper we will approach Disney’s film production of the animated film “Mulan”, showing a complex network of relationships and interpretations, to show the interplay and conflict of different elements within one film production. The significance of the analysis of the animated film “Mulan” from 1998 is reflected in its potential to activate social discussions about neoliberal culture and film as a political tool, and hybridity and capitalist co-optation of ethnic material, but at the same time the new millennium and fluid treatment of identity, gender and sexuality. The correlation of one dimension with another is of interest to research.

Neke determinante političke apstinencije birača / Some Determinants of Voters’ Political Abstinence

Dijana Sulejmanović — 2024-12-20

The goal of this research is to examine whether personality traits and tendencies towards certain behaviors or attitudes are significantly related to political abstinence. The survey was conducted online on a volunteer sample (N = 1435) aged between 18 and 71 years, with the majority of respondents being female (988 respondents or 68.8%). The main research hypothesis “Personality and attitudinal differences are predictors of behavioral reactions in the situation of electoral behavior” was partially confirmed by this research.

Genocid: od definiranja do presude za Srebrenicu / Genocide: From Definition to Verdict for Srebrenica

Muamer Džananović — 2024-12-20

The paper provides a brief analysis of the crime of genocide through historical and legal contexts, emphasizing that the twentieth century is often referred to as the “century of genocide” due to the numerous mass atrocities committed. The paper relies on the legal definition of genocide and the efforts of Raphael Lemkin that led to the adoption of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Among other things, we explore the complexity of proving genocidal intent, examine the role of ideology in the execution of genocide, and highlight the challenges in classifying crimes as genocide. Despite international efforts to prevent and punish perpetrators of genocide, crimes with elements of genocide continued throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, as illustrated by the example of the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper pays special attention to the chronology of the genocide in and around Srebrenica in July 1995 as an example of genocidal intent and execution. It also points out the ongoing denial of the adjudicated genocide in Srebrenica and its consequences for Bosnian society and the state.