Collective ethos. Phenomenology, early avant-garde and new anthropology

In: Zbornik Matice Srpske za društvene nauke: Proceedings for social sciences, Heft 163, S. 459-469

Abstract

In the first part of the article, the author discusses the basic outlines of
romantic and avant-garde anthropology. The crucial concept is related to the
motives that drove the romantics in their journey toward individuation,
whereas the members of avant-garde movement brought new visions of community
into being. Unlike the romantics, early avant-garde movements advocated for
ideals of general, globalized man mediated by technology and media. In the
second part of the paper, the author analyses Husserl?s concept of
all-community (Allgemeinschaft) bearing in mind the attempts of his
phenomenology to extend our idea of community as much as it is possible by
means of including everything that discloses the very foundations of our
lifeworld into the concept of community. By doing so, Husserl encompassed not
only the real and the past, but the possible intersubjectivity as well.