An interview with Mihkail Shishkin
  • 22.07.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

An interview with Mihkail Shishkin

Ahead of publishing the book My Russia: War or Peace? by Mikhail Shishkin, a dissident and the greatest living Russian author, we bring you an interwiev that Nataša Vlašić Smrekar made with him for Večernji list. They talked about his political engagement, the relationship between Russia and the West, his projections about the end of the war in Ukraine, but also about Russian literature theough th...

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New title – „The Class Matrix“
  • 04.07.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

New title – „The Class Matrix“

We have just published the book The Class Matrix. Social theory after the cultural turn by the American university professor, sociologist Vivek Chibber, translated by Matej Čolig, which you can find from today on our webshop, and soon in bookstores and libraries. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by theorists who a...

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Andreas Reckwitz in Večernji
  • 11.06.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

Andreas Reckwitz in Večernji

„European intellectual star, German sociologist, speaks for ‘Obzor’ before visiting Zagreb“. This is how Nataša Vlašić Smrekar announces her conversation with one of today's leading sociologists, Andreas Reckwitz. Reckwitz is visiting Zagreb from June 12 to 14, and as part of his visit, he will hold a lecture at the Faculty of Political Sciences on Friday, June 14 at 5 PM. You can read the interv...

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New title – „Red isohypses of war“
  • 11.06.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

New title – „Red isohypses of war“

Ivan Koprić's collection of poetry Red Isohypses of War is available in bookstores, libraries and on our webshop. This collection contains 64 thematically and stylistically uniformed poems whose common denominator is the fear of death, disappearance, meaninglessness, futility and the end. The poems were created during the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, after the devastating earthquake in Zagreb and...

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Rhythm&Book: Persuasion playbooks with Nikolina Borčić
  • 23.05.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

Rhythm&Book: Persuasion playbooks with Nikolina Borčić

Last night, May 22, in the packed Regular bar, we held the third session of Rhythm&Book, the last one before the summer break. Last night's guest, professor, scholar and author Nikolina Borčić, talked with Vlatka Kolarović about three books: her own The Devil is in the Detail, Williamson's Tetralogue and Svendsen's A Philosophy of Lying, and about the thread that connects them all, which is pe...

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New title – „On the Smallest and Even Smaller“
  • 15.05.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

New title – „On the Smallest and Even Smaller“

As of today, you can find the newest title by Croatian philosopher Hrvoje Jurić – On the Smallest and Even Smaller – in libraries and bookstores. The diverse writings of Hrvoje Jurić, which were created between 2015 and 2023, could be described as „poetic essays“, although sometimes what seems like an essay is meant to be a poem, and what looks like a poem is actually an essay, a travelogue or ev...

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Rhythm&Book – „Persuasion playbooks with Nikolina Borčić“
  • 10.05.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

Rhythm&Book – „Persuasion playbooks with Nikolina Borčić“

The third season of your favorite cultural event has started! This year, Rhythm&Book brings many new things: new location, more meetings, more guest appearances by foreign authors, more fun! The third event called „Persuasion playbooks with Nikolina Borčić“ will be held on May 22 from 7 to 9 PM at the Regular bar (Ilica 65/1, Zagreb). Vlatka Kolarović will talk to our author Nikolina Borčić a...

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New title: „Straw dogs. Thoughts on humans and other animals“
  • 10.05.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

New title: „Straw dogs. Thoughts on humans and other animals“

After Seven Types of Atheism, another book by John Gray, Straw dogs. Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, translated by Stribor Kikere is finally published. As from today, you can find it in libraries, bookstores and in our webshop. In this captivating book, John Gray questions most of our assumptions about what it means to be human and convincingly shows that most of them are misconceptions. ...

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Svendsen on Filozofski and HRT
  • 25.04.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

Svendsen on Filozofski and HRT

Yesterday, on April 23rd, Lars Svendsen gave a lecture named „A Philosophy of Hope“ at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in front of a large number of interested students, and then he was a guest on HRT with Ivona Haller in the show Art à la carte, where he presented A Philosophy of Hope, and, among other things, explained why he often writes examples from his own life in his books, an...

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A reception on occasion of Lars Svendsen's visit
  • 24.04.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

A reception on occasion of Lars Svendsen's visit

Last night, in the pleasant atmosphere of the residence of the ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway in Croatia, Mr. Arne Sonnes Bjørnstad, a reception was held on the occasion of the visit of the philosopher Lars Svendsen to Zagreb and the presentation of his A Philosophy of Hope. We remind you that the author will give a lecture „A Philosophy of Hope“ at FFZG tonight at 18:00, and at 20:10 he wil...

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