Last night, in the great atmosphere of Crni mačak, we held the final Ritam&Knjiga event of the season. Vlatka ...
In the final edition of Rhythm&Book for this year, we will discuss politics—not just as it plays out in pa...
Renowned Macedonian studies scholar, philologist and translator Borislav Pavlovski has received the 2026 International...
Last night at Crni mačak, we held the fourth Rhythm&Book gathering of the year, featuring our author Goran Pećanac. ...
Whenever we confront dehumanization in today’s world, we appeal to humanism. But does humanism still have a future in the twenty-first century? Slavica Jakelić’s Pluralizing Humanism answers in the affirmative, but on one condition: humanism must be pluralized. The author does not stop at critique. Bringing together theoretical, historical and sociological insights, she engages skilfully with theories of religion and secularism and with postmodernist, postcolonial and decolonial objections to Western humanist projects. She asks how religious and secular humanisms think and act when they resist dehumanization, and she looks for answers in two historical cases from the 1980s: the Solidarity movement in Poland and the anti-apartheid movement i...
Ahead of this year’s final Ritam&Knjiga event, which will feature Nikolina Borčić discussing political (im)balances through the books Trump and the Philosophers, The Light that Failed, and her own The Devil Is in the Detail: Discourse and Image in Politics, we have chosen her book as our book of October.
This book is the result of the author’s long-standing academic and professional research into linguistic and communication theories and an analysis of their application in practice. Her primary aim is to encourage the public to discuss the methods and possibilities of creating and managing political image. Encouraging individuals to think critically about political image contributes to higher expectations regarding the quality of public communication in Croatia. Informed citizens recognize not only ambiguous communication and manipulation, but also value content based on verifiable data and results, and consequently set higher standards for politicians in terms of the quality of their communication. In an age marked by a global trend toward the trivialization and spectacularization of politics, this book serves as a reminder of the power of language to shape, but also to deconstruct, political image.
Assoc. Prof. Ivona Čulo, PhD
