Author

IVEKOVIĆ Rada

IVEKOVIĆ Rada

Born in Zagreb in 1945, Rada Iveković is a philosopher and indologist with a political and feminist approach. She studied in Belgrade, Zagreb and Delhi. She taught philosophy at the University of Zagreb (1975-1991), and later at the University of Paris 7 and at the Universities of Saint-Denis/Paris 8 (1992-2003). Program director at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris (2004-2010), she teaches at the University of Saint-Etienne. She is a member of the editorial board of the research and publication network Terra. She published books on philosophy, indology and counter-indology, various essays, a few handbooks and many papers, in several languages. She is a member of Transeuropéennes' editorial board.

 

Bibliography

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- Le Sexe de la philosophie. Jean-François Lyotard et le féminin, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1997.

- Autopsia dei Balcani. Saggio di psico-politica, Milano, Raffaello Cortina 1999.

- With Julie Mostov (eds), From Nation to gender, Longo Editore, Ravenna, 2002.

- Le sexe de la nation, Paris, Eds. Léo Scheer, 2003.

- Dame Nation. Nation et différence des sexes, Ravenna, Longo Editore, 2003.

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- With Stefano Bianchini, Sanjay Chaturvedi, Ranabir Samaddar, PARTITIONS. Reshaping States and Minds, London, Routledge/Frank Cass, 2005.

Articles

A Politics of Philosophy since Modernity

Rada IVEKOVIĆ

6 November 2009

Modernity, a trigger to much opening to extra-European continents, was also the big historic rift which made translation almost impossible by making many concepts normative, and particularly that of the political. Concepts and terms of “european” origin, through a process of universalization (a “westernisation”), assumed a genealogical and etymological continuity, imposing a corresponding discontinuity on those originating in other regions and languages.