“Young Bosnia” and philosophy

Abstract

?Young Bosnia? is the name of the youth movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early XX century (1908-1914). Irrespective of their religious denomination, they had an awareness of belonging to the Serbian people. They fought for the liberation of all South-Slavic peoples from foreign control and for the unification within one common country. The intellectual leader of ?Young Bosnia? was Dimitrije Mitrinovic and the ideological leader was Vladimir Gacinovic. At the time, in Bosnia and Herzegovina there were only elementary and secondary schools, but there were no universities, which was very unfavourable for cultivating philosophy. Secondary school students and university students, some of which were philosophy students, contributed in many ways to its development among our people. Firstly, with their articles and translations of philosophical texts, they promoted philosophy on a large scale at the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Secondly, they were the first among the Serbs to widely propagate the irrationalist trend in philosophy. Thirdly, they contributed to the Serbian reception of the new philosophical trends that were current abroad.