Un volo breve per la civetta. Le tendenze hegeliane nello spazio storico jugoslavo

The main purpose of this article is to present and assess the most important lines of thought in the reception and interpretation of Hegelian philosophy in the former Yugoslavia. After briefly introducing the nineteenth-century beginnings of Hegelian studies in the Serbian language, the article analyzes two main perspectives on Hegel developed in the socialist Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s. The first perspective is formulated within the Yugoslavian Marxist school called «Praxis» and will be illustrated through the works of Milan Kangrga, while the second one originates from the Ljubljana school of Lacanian psychoanalysis and will be exemplified through the early works of Slavoj Žižek. After delving into the main claims of both readings of Hegel, divergent and even irreconcilable, the last part of the article attempts to identify some possible points of affinity between them, particularly concerning Hegelian questions such as negativity, contradiction, and dialectics.