Spomenka Hribar

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Spomenka Hribar (born 25 January 1941) is a

Heideggerian philosopher Tine Hribar
.

Early life

She was born Spomenka Diklić in

Hegelian conceptions of freedom.[citation needed
]

In 1969, she got a job at the Institute for Sociology of the

Communist regime after World War II, she dedicated most of her intellectual endeavours to the understanding and explaining what she called the tragedy of Slovenian resistance and revolution during and after World War II.[citation needed
]

The public intellectual

In the 1980s, Spomenka and her husband Tine Hribar became important members of a newly formed circle of critical Slovene intellectuals, gathered around the journal Nova revija. In 1983, she started writing the essay "Guilt and Sin" (Krivda in greh), which became one of the most influential texts in post-war Slovenia.[3] In the essay, meant for publishing in a collective volume on Edvard Kocbek, she denounced the mass killings in Slovenia after World War II.[clarification needed][clarification needed]

In early 1984, the essay leaked to the officials of the

Contributions for the Slovenian National Program, a collective text in which several Slovene public intellectuals and scholars demanded a sovereign and democratic Slovenian state.[citation needed
]

Political activism

In 1989, she was one of the co-founders of the

DEMOS coalition
majority in the Lower Chamber of the Slovenian Parliament.

At the same time, she grew increasingly critical to the right wing of the DEMOS coalition, embodied by the

Democratic Party and the liberal conservative National Democratic Party, which occurred in late 1991. In 1992, Hribar was among those who pushed for the dissolution of the DEMOS coalition, and backed the formation of a centre left government under the Liberal Democrat Janez Drnovšek.[citation needed
]

Public figure after 1992

Before the elections of 1992, Spomenka Hribar caused a famous controversy with the article "Stopping the Right Wing" (Zaustaviti desnico, sometimes erroneously rendered as an imperative, Zaustavite desnico, that is "Stop the Right Wing!"). In the article, she warned against the rise of right wing discourse in post-independence Slovenia.[citation needed]

After the failure of the Democratic Party in 1992, Hribar withdrew from party politics, but remained in public life as a commentator and columnist. In her articles, she has stood up for various

United List of Social Democrats. She frequently, however, took a more nationalist stand regarding foreign policy, especially the border disputes with neighbouring Croatia.[5]

Polemics with Janez Janša

In the 1990s, Spomenka Hribar emerged as one of the strongest critics of the politician

Slovenian Catholicism
.

Spomenka Hribar turned against Janša in 1996, denouncing his "right wing turn" and accusing him of a sectarian and paranoiac conception of politics. She later intensified her criticism, accusing him of

demagoguery. Differently from her husband Tine Hribar, who became more conciliatory towards Janša after 2004, seeing him as an essentially positive figure in Slovenian conservativism and implicitly supporting him in the 2004 elections,[7]

She maintained her position against the conservative politician. In 2007, she accused him of corruption and anti-democratic attitudes. Janša has accused Hribar of fostering personal animosity against his person, and stimulating a climate of culture wars in Slovenia. In Janša's view, Hribar has always had a deep disinterest in economic policies; she has failed to analyse the true power and economic relations in Slovenian society by obscuring them with both ideological mystifications and personal obsessions, thus helping the liberal economic and political establishment that has hegemonized the Slovenian public sphere since the 1990s.[8] Spomenka's husband, Tine, who shared her political views throughout the 1990s, has maintained a substantially positive opinion of Janša since 2004.[9]

In 2009, the

Yugoslav Secret Police (UDBA) based on a number with her name in leaked files. However, the file number is among the range associated with people that were monitored by the secret police, rather than those that collaborated with them.[10]

Works

References

  1. ^ Jože Pirjevec, Jugoslavija: 1918-1992. Nastanek, razvoj ter razpad Karađorđevićeve in Titove Jugoslavije (Koper: Založba Lipa, 1995), 382-383.
  2. ^ "Dr. Spomenka Hribar profile". Mladina.Si. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Mladina.Si". Mladina.Si. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  4. ^ "odmev21". Revijasrp.si. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  5. ^ a b "Mladina.Si". Mladina.Si. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  6. ^ Tine Hribar, Slovenci kot nacija: soočanja s sodobniki (Ljubljana: Enotnost, 1995).
  7. ^ "tine hribar janez janนa - Iskanje Google". Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  8. ^ "Janez Janša o privilegirani upokojenki Spomenki Hribar". Razgledi.net. 14 June 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  9. ^ ""Omreženi" sta tako levica kot desnica". Delo.si. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  10. ^ "Ustavimo Spomenko!". Mladina.Si. Retrieved 14 July 2015.

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