THE CONCEPTS OF THE CULTURAL MODEL AND THE SEMI-INTELLECTUAL

Text topic: (Lack Of) Culture

Text author: Борис Милосављевић

The culture of a nation as understood by Slobodan Jovanović (1869–1958) encompasses all aspects of intellectual life, science, religion, ethics, literature, art, politics, law, army, economy, customs and leisure. The paper presents the phenomenon of a semi-intellectual as described and understood at the time the term was invented. It points to association with the concepts used in Bogdan Popović’s (1864–1944) “theory of the parvenu”. The semi-intellectual’s evolution ends with his taking over the position of the intellectual. The paper examines if the concept of the semi-intellectual as defined by S. Jovanovic is applicable to the present time.