Rada Iveković

Rada Iveković (* 1945 in Zagreb ) is a Yugoslav philosopher , Indologist and writer .

Life

Iveković grew up mainly in Zagreb and Belgrade , although she attended the French school in Bonn-Bad Godesberg during her primary school years. Iveković lived in Zagreb since 1963 and graduated from high school in 1964.

Iveković studied Indology, Philosophy and English at the University of Zagreb , at the University of Belgrade and 1970–1973 Buddhist philosophy at the University of Delhi . Iveković graduated from the University of Zagreb in 1969 with degrees in Indology and English.

In 1972 she received her PhD in Buddhist Philosophy from Delhi University.

From 1975 Rada Iveković worked as a lecturer in the history of Asian philosophy and comparative philosophy at the University of Zagreb.

In 1987 she spent a sabbatical at the Philosophical Faculty of Banaras Hindu University in Benares .

In 1991/1992 she moved from Zagreb, in 1993 she completed her habilitation in Philosophical Anthropology of Difference at the University of Paris VIII . Since 1998 she worked there as a professor.

Rada Iveković has been a professor in the Sociology Department at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Jean Monnet - St. Etienne since 2003, and since 2004 program director at the Collège international de philosophie ( Paris ).

Political positioning

Iveković takes an anti-patriarchal, anti-racist and anti-nationalist position on the war on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. She takes the view that the lack of gender equality (Inégalité des sexes) and other alterities, as well as inequalities, exclusions or oppressive inclusions (gender, nation, ethnicity, colonization, etc.) lead to a fatal division of reason (“Le partage de la raison "). In 1997, she published her study on gender in philosophy, in which she deals with the positions of Jean-Francois Lyotard .

Iveković is a signatory of the declaration published in 2017 on the common language of Croatians , Serbs , Bosniaks and Montenegrins .

Fonts

In English

• 2005 Iveković, Rada: Captive gender: ethnic stereotypes & cultural boundaries , New Delhi: Women Unlimited, an association of Kali for Women
• 2005 (Conference abstract by Rada Iveković) Borders and Partitions: Exception as Space and Time , ( National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan: Center for Humanities and Social Theory ), 25. – 27. June 2005.
• 2005 Iveković, Rada: The Fiction of Gender Constructing the Fiction of Nation: On How Fictions Are Normative, and Norms Produce Exceptions . In: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures 2005 (Gender and Nation in South Eastern Europe), pp. 19–38.
• 2010 Feminist Philosophy in the former Yugoslavia. An Interview with Rada Iveković , in: Feminist Philosophy in a European Context. Gender debates between “East” and “West” , Böhlau Verlag 2010, pp. 212–221, ISBN 978-3-205-79091-4

In German translation

• An exquisite carcass. Lettre International 73 (Summer 2006), pp. 118-119 excerpt
• Dangerous classes. Lettre International 71 (Winter 2005), pp. 120-121 excerpt
• Autopsy of the Balkans. A psychopolitical essay. Translated from the French by Ilona Seidel. Graz / Vienna: Droschl , 2001. ISBN 3-85420-567-8
• Benares . An essay from India. Translated from Serbo-Croatian by Nadja Grbic. Graz / Vienna: Droschl , 1993
• Yugoslavian Salad From the Serbo-Croatian by Katrin Becker. Graz / Vienna: Droschl , 1993 (= essay. 19).
• Letters from women about war and nationalism (together with Biljana Jovanovic / Marusa Krese / Radmila Lazic). With a contribution by Duska Perisec-Osti. Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Barbara Antkowiak , Angela Richter and Mechthild Schäfer, from the Slovenian by Marina Einsteiger. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1993 (= edition suhrkamp. 1811. NF 811). (Blurb: "This book was created from letters that, despite all blockades, were faxed between Ljubljana, Berlin, Belgrade, Paris ... from the beginning of June 1991 to the beginning of 1993.") (See also radio play of the month , July 1993.)

Web links

• Literature by and about Rada Iveković in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief portrait on the occasion of the "Inter-City-Text" event during the Steirischer Herbst 1997 ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Rada Iveković's detailed résumé, until 2004
• Iveković's main topics in the seminar program of the CIPH Paris ( Memento from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Photo by Rada Iveković

Individual evidence

1. ^ Letters from women about war and nationalism (together with Biljana Jovanovic / Marusa Krese / Radmila Lazic). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1993, p. 178.