Srećko Horvat
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Srećko Horvat, January, 2014
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28 February 1983 Osijek, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Croatia) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy |
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Srećko Horvat (born 1983) is a philosopher, author and political activist. The German weekly Der Freitag described him as "one of the most exciting voices of his generation" and Hollywood director Oliver Stone called him “a charismatic Croatian philosopher” Writings by him have appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Il Manifesto, El Pais and The New York Times .
Horvat was born in Osijek, Croatia, but lived for the first eight years of his life in exile in Germany, before returning to Croatia in 1991. He has published extensively about the Occupy Wall Street Movement; the World Social Forum in Senegal and Tunisia; Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre; the Zebaleen in Cairo; Cyprus, China, Lebanon, Israel, and more. He has been involved in setting up the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM 2025) along with Yanis Varoufakis.
Horvat is regarded as one of the "central figures of the new left in post-Yugoslavia". He has participated in different activist movements in Croatia. In Germany he published the book After the End of History: From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement (Laika Verlag, 2013), where he is engaged in debates and interviews about Occupy Wall Street, Chinese capitalism, poststructuralism and postcolonialism with different thinkers such as Francis Fukuyama, Stéphane Hessel, Terry Eagleton, Gayatri Spivak, etc. In his work with Igor Štiks he has been advocating "direct democracy as a necessary corrective (and possibly a true alternative) to electoral democracy and partitocracy" and, more recently, he is claiming that "it is becoming more and more clear that a movement without a party is impotent, and that a party without a movement can only repeat the failures of the past".
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