Божидар Кнежевић
Božidar Knežević
2015
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Božidar Knežević (1862–1905) left a great impression on his contemporaries in Serbia and in other surrounding countries where Serbs lived and read the Serbian press. The reconstruction of Knežević’s life based on historical sources, primarily archival material gives a different picture than the usual one. Although that image may be foreign to everyone who has gotten used to the myth of Božidar Knežević, it is no less interesting, it reveals a new Knežević, who anticipates and feels his era with both his mind and senses. Knežević left an incomparably greater impression on his contemporaries with aphorisms published under the title The Thoughts (Misli, 1902) than with his capital two-volume Principles of History (1898, 1901). His Principles of History, a systematic work, of which he published only one part (two volumes, i.e. books, out of three or five, as was planned), did not attract the attention of the wider intellectual public. The Principles of History represent the search for the ...laws of the historical development of mankind. The first book is entitled The Law of Order in History, and the second is The Proportion in History. For Knežević, historical science as a positive science was the highest philosophy. During the reign of positive sciences, Knežević himself was a follower of Herbert Spencer, John William Draper and Henry Thomas Buckle whose comprehensive History of Civilization in England he translated into Serbian. Although Knežević followed the ruling scientism of his time, he paid special attention to the issue of religion. Knežević’s Thoughts, a collection of aphorisms, were published for the first time in the Serbian Literary Gazette (1902). In the same year, Knežević also published a book with a same title. The themes of the aphorisms were the pessimistic understanding of man, the difference between a lower animal and a higher intellectual man, the cult and poetry of thought, the struggle between ideals and reality, the ultimate triumph of spirit over matter and eternity over transience. Knežević’s aphoristic thinking moves mainly in analogies and antitheses, as well as in paradoxes. By publishing The Thoughts, the influential Serbian Literary Gazette provided full support to Knežević. Bogdan Popović and Jovan Skerlić pointed out that Knežević’s Thoughts belongs to moralistic literature, which had the highest reach in France, becoming a national genre of French literature (Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère). A “moraliste” is a writer who offers reflections on morals: human habits and customs, characters and ways of life. The Thoughts made Knežević famous. After his sudden death (1905) а myth arose about a lonely philosopher and a misunderstood thinker, an intellectual whose values and merits were not recognized and properly evaluated.
Ključne reči:
Božidar Knežević / Herbert Spencer / John William Draper / Henry Thomas Buckle / moralistic literature / Bogdan Popović / Jovan Skerlić / aphorisms / Serbian Literary GazetteIzvor:
Срби 1903–1914 : историја идеја / Serbs 1903–1914 : History of Ideas, 2015, 428-449Izdavač:
- Београд : Clio
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Балканолошки институт САНУ / Institute for Balkan Studies SASATY - JOUR AU - Милосављевић, Борис PY - 2015 UR - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/15041 AB - Božidar Knežević (1862–1905) left a great impression on his contemporaries in Serbia and in other surrounding countries where Serbs lived and read the Serbian press. The reconstruction of Knežević’s life based on historical sources, primarily archival material gives a different picture than the usual one. Although that image may be foreign to everyone who has gotten used to the myth of Božidar Knežević, it is no less interesting, it reveals a new Knežević, who anticipates and feels his era with both his mind and senses. Knežević left an incomparably greater impression on his contemporaries with aphorisms published under the title The Thoughts (Misli, 1902) than with his capital two-volume Principles of History (1898, 1901). His Principles of History, a systematic work, of which he published only one part (two volumes, i.e. books, out of three or five, as was planned), did not attract the attention of the wider intellectual public. The Principles of History represent the search for the laws of the historical development of mankind. The first book is entitled The Law of Order in History, and the second is The Proportion in History. For Knežević, historical science as a positive science was the highest philosophy. During the reign of positive sciences, Knežević himself was a follower of Herbert Spencer, John William Draper and Henry Thomas Buckle whose comprehensive History of Civilization in England he translated into Serbian. Although Knežević followed the ruling scientism of his time, he paid special attention to the issue of religion. Knežević’s Thoughts, a collection of aphorisms, were published for the first time in the Serbian Literary Gazette (1902). In the same year, Knežević also published a book with a same title. The themes of the aphorisms were the pessimistic understanding of man, the difference between a lower animal and a higher intellectual man, the cult and poetry of thought, the struggle between ideals and reality, the ultimate triumph of spirit over matter and eternity over transience. Knežević’s aphoristic thinking moves mainly in analogies and antitheses, as well as in paradoxes. By publishing The Thoughts, the influential Serbian Literary Gazette provided full support to Knežević. Bogdan Popović and Jovan Skerlić pointed out that Knežević’s Thoughts belongs to moralistic literature, which had the highest reach in France, becoming a national genre of French literature (Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère). A “moraliste” is a writer who offers reflections on morals: human habits and customs, characters and ways of life. The Thoughts made Knežević famous. After his sudden death (1905) а myth arose about a lonely philosopher and a misunderstood thinker, an intellectual whose values and merits were not recognized and properly evaluated. PB - Београд : Clio T2 - Срби 1903–1914 : историја идеја / Serbs 1903–1914 : History of Ideas T1 - Божидар Кнежевић T1 - Božidar Knežević SP - 428 EP - 449 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15041 ER -
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Милосављевић, Б.. (2015). Божидар Кнежевић. in Срби 1903–1914 : историја идеја / Serbs 1903–1914 : History of Ideas Београд : Clio., 428-449. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15041
Милосављевић Б. Божидар Кнежевић. in Срби 1903–1914 : историја идеја / Serbs 1903–1914 : History of Ideas. 2015;:428-449. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15041 .
Милосављевић, Борис, "Божидар Кнежевић" in Срби 1903–1914 : историја идеја / Serbs 1903–1914 : History of Ideas (2015):428-449, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15041 .