INADEQUACY OF DEMOCRACY

Autor kritički analizira Plessnerove stavove o nedostatku jasne ideje države u tradiciji Njemačke, kao i posljedice koje su iz toga proizašle za njezin razvitak u 20. stoljeću. Autor brani tezu da se u razvitku Njemačke ne radi o nepostojanju ideje države, nego o nepostojanju demokratskog društvenog sloja koji bi spriječio autoritarni, pa onda i totalitarni put njezina razvitka. Također odbacuje tumačenje povijesti kao smisleno-ciljnog procesa, jer to pretpostavlja filozofsko znanje o ciljevima i svrhama jedinstvenog povijesnog razvitka, što danas metodološki ne može prihvatiti niti jedan historičar.The author critically analyses Plessner\u27s views on the lack of a clear idea of the state in German tradition as well as the consequences of that for its development in the 20th century. The author claims that it is not so much a question of the non-existence of the idea of the state as of the non-existence of a democratic social stratum that would have prevented the authoritarian and later totalitarian developments. He also rejects the interpretation of history as meaningful, goal-oriented processes, since they presuppose a philosophical knowledge about the goals and purposes of an inimitable historical development, the assumption which today cannot be methodologically vindicated by any historian