Institutional Change and the Paradox of (Restitution and) Restauration of the Institution

Petar Bojanić

doi:10.2298//FID1904465B

Authors

Petar Bojanić Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2298//FID1904465B

Keywords:

institution, engagement, change, restauration, Europe

Abstract

My intention in this text is to present the most significant contribution of some French philosophers and anthropologists to the notion of reconstruction and advancement of institutions. The paradox of change, reform or transformation of the institution – is an entirely new institution possible? How do institutions die? – lies in the difficulty or even impossibility to change something that manifests what we are as a group. If institutions really present or represent the relations among all of us, how can they be changed in the first place? Whence the capacity for change? What allows for the idea of the “new”?

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