Fairy-tale Dimensions of Liberalism

• Main Author: Klepec, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Slovenian
• Published: ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC 2016
• Subjects: liberalism; Foucault; football; Slovenians; fantasy; Lacan; liberalizem; nogomet; Slovenci; fantazma; anthro-se; hisphilso; sami
• Online Access: https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/4345

The article deals with the mutation of the social link in Slovenian liberalism and populism. It concentrates on the success-story of the Slovene national football team which was soon christened a “Slovenian football fairy tale”. In the period when Slovenia was joining the EU and NATO this “fairy-tale” expressed optimism (as the team manager Katanec on one occasion uttered “There is a God” – on our side, of course) and selfconfidence. In other words, the members of the Slovene national team became such a strong identification point not because of the results they achieved (qualifying for the World Cup), but because they showed us how one can elbow one’s way onto the global market and among the strongest in a traditional Slovene way – with diligence, assiduity, dedication, in short, with hard labour, combined with combativeness and boldness. Avtor se v prispevku loteva problematike sprememb družbene vezi skozi optiko liberalizma in populizma pri nas. V tem kontekstu ga je zanimala slovenska »nogometna pravljica«, ki je na optimističen način (Katančev »Bog je« – na naši strani) skušala v času vstopanja v mednarodne povezave (EU in NATO ) izraziti zaupanje v lastne zmožnosti. Drugače rečeno, nogometaši niso postali močna identifikacijska točka zato, ker so bili uspešni v rezultatskem smislu (kvalificirati se na svetovno nogometno prvenstvo), temveč zato, ker so nam pokazali, da se je mogoče na tradicionalen slovenski način – s pridnostjo, marljivostjo, zavzetostjo, skratka, trdim delom –, ki so jim sami pridali še bojevitost in drznost, prebiti na svetovni trg in med najmočnejše.