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31.10.2023.
Zagreb, HR

New title: „God in the Limits of Futility“

A book God within the Limits of Futility by Croatian philosopher and university professor Željko Senković just came out of print. In this book, author calls for reflection on the historical, cultural, psychological-political and anthropological aspects of the concept of the divine. Analyzing new directions on the beaten track, he takes into account the importance of classical insights about the co...

26.10.2023.
Zagreb, HR

Rhyhtm&Book: „Two faces of the modern thought“ with Andrea Matošević

On Wednesday, October 25, in the pleasant atmosphere of the Botaničar bar, we held the second event as part of the Rhythm&Knjiga project. Our guest this Wednesday was the anthropologist and university professor Andrea Matošević, who discussed with the moderator Vlatka Kolarović about the character and work of the controversial philosopher Martin Heidegger and his connection to the Nazi reg...

18.10.2023.
Zagreb, HR

Vjeran Katunarić passed away

Sociologist Vjeran Katunarić, our longtime associate, author of the book Theory in Sociology. The Ideal, the real, the Ideological, the Utopian (2020) and reviewer of numerous books published by TIM Press, died yesterday, October 17, in Zadar at the age of 74. For his merits in cultural policy research, he was awarded the Order of Danica with the figure of Marko Marulić (1999), and he is the r...

16.10.2023.
Zagreb, HR

New title – „The Insect“

The novel The Insect by the Croatian author with an Italian address, Ivan Klarić, has just been published! After a large part of his family dies in a plane crash, Zvonimir Žagar, a descendant of an Ustaša family that emigrated to Argentina after the Second World War, begins to remember his gloomy childhood and youth in emigration, and then his life in Žablji Dol, the village to which the Žagar fa...

05.10.2023.
Zagreb, HR

New season of Rythm&Book started in Botaničar

On Wednesday, October 4, we opened a new season of our multimedia program Rhythm&Book, this time in the beautiful Botaničar bar. Moderator Vlatka Kolarović and music producer Marko Mihalinec - Plazmatick are responsible for the excellent atmosphere this year, and the guest of the first event called "Success of Failure" was university professor and philosopher Hrvoje Jurić. Vlatka and Hrvoje re...

26.09.2023.
Zagreb, HR

„People are becoming more aware that we are killing the darkness“

On September 23rd, on the internet pages of Jutarnji list, an interview that Karmela Devčić made with Sigri Sandberg was published. You can read the text here.

25.09.2023.
Zagreb, HR

A new season of great books and fun beats

This October and November, a new season of great books and fun rhythms awaits you at Botaničar! With the Rhythm&Book program, our guests will present seven titles from the House of Good Books through three events, and the last date is reserved for the visit of a foreign author. As usual, everything will be moderated by HTV's editor and presenter Vlatka Kolarović, and Plazmatick, our permanent ...

25.09.2023.
Zagreb, HR

New title – „On People and Lemmings. Thoughts about Politics, Democracy and the Epidemic“

The book On People and Lemmings. Thoughts about Politics, Democracy and the Epidemic by one of world's most famous contemporary philosophers and political theorists, Giorgio Agamben, just came out of print. The author collected his thoughts on politics, democracy and the epidemic in this book. In these precise, sometimes very short texts, he tries to reflect on the ethical and political con...

25.09.2023.
Zagreb, HR

New title – „Dandelion Season. Selected Stories“

Dandelion season. Selected stories is the first and long-awaited translation of Blaže Minevski's works into Croatian. The collection contains eighteen short stories that were translated from Macedonian by Tomislav Rovičanac, who also wrote the afterword. Minevski's stories are sad and poignant stories about one nation. They range from reality to fiction, from sheer writing, through true or fi...

25.09.2023.
Zagreb, HR

New title – „In Praise of Failure. Four Lessons in Humility“

After Dying for Ideas. Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers, we published a second book by Costica Bradatan, In Praise of Failure. Four Lessons in Humility. The author explores several arenas of failure, from the social and political to the spiritual and biological. It begins by examining the defiant choices of the French mystic Simone Weil, who, in sympathy with exploited workers, took up factory ...