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Rada Iveković

Rada Iveković is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Rada Iveković rather than just read about it. In short: Rada Iveković (born 1945 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian professor, philosopher, Indologist and writer. Research Iveković's research interests include comparative philosophy (Asian philosophy, particularly Indian, and Western), feminist theory and feminist philosophy as well as political philosophy.

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Reference excerpt

Rada Iveković (born 1945 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian professor, philosopher, Indologist and writer.

Research Iveković's research interests include comparative philosophy (Asian philosophy, particularly Indian, and Western), feminist theory and feminist philosophy as well as political philosophy. In particular, the following aspects have been of intellectual inspiration for Iveković's work: contemporary European philosophy, postmodern philosophy, Orientalism in (Western) philosophy, the feminine in philosophy, issues of nation, state und citizenship, problems of nationalism, of violence and war, European identity issues, and democracy. Iveković's other interests include: literary theory and literary criticism, religion and mythology, gender studies and women writers, anthropology, and contemporary French philosophy in particular.

Political positioning Iveković holds that the inequality of the sexes (Inégalité des sexes) and other alterities, inequalities, exclusions, subordinating inclusions (e.g. through discrimination by gender, national citizenship, ethnicity, colonization) leads to a fatal partitioning of reason ("Le partage de la raison"). On the war events on the territory of Yugoslavia she takes an explicitly anti-patriarchal, anti-racist and non-nationalist stance. In 1992, Iveković was among five Croatian feminist intellectuals — alongside Slavenka Drakulić, Dubravka Ugrešić, Vesna Kesić, and Jelena Lovrić — targeted by a coordinated nationalist media campaign in the Croatian press, branded collectively as "Vještice iz Ria" (Witches from Rio) for their anti-nationalist positions during the Yugoslav Wars. In 1997 Iveković published a study on gender/sex in philosophy, taking issue with Jean-François Lyotard. In 2017, Iveković has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

Career Iveković grew up mostly in Zagreb and Belgrade, living in Zagreb, from 1963 until leaving Croatia for exile in 1991–1992 in a self-described "protest against nationalism." At Zagreb University, she studied Indology, Philosophy and English Studies (1969) and from 1970 to 1973, Buddhist philosophy at Delhi University where she received her PhD in 1972. From 1975 to 1991–1992, Iveković was a lecturer in the History of Asian Philosophy and Comparative Philosophy at Zagreb University. From 1998 to 2003 she was a professor at Paris VIII. Since 2003 Professor in the Department of Sociology at University Jean Monnet - St. Etienne and after 2004, the Program Director at Collège international de philosophie (Paris).

Selected works in English 1984: She and Slavenka Drakulić-Illić contributed the piece "Neofeminism, and its six mortal sins" to the 1984 anthology Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, edited by Robin Morgan. 2004: "COMMENTARY - The Veil in France: Secularism, Nation, Women". Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 39, 11, 1117–1119. 2005: "Borders and Partitions: Exception as Space and Time" (Abstract for the conference Polemos, Stasis ... War, Civil War, 24–27 June 2005, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan: Center for Humanities and Social Theory). [link removed] 2005: "The Fiction of Gender Constructing the Fiction of Nation: On How Fictions Are Normative, and Norms Produce Exceptions". Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures 2005 (Gender and Nation in South Eastern Europe), 19–38.

Sources

Most comprehensive CV, until 2004, in English[link removed] Short portrait in German with photo, 1997

Further reading Grebowicz, Margret. Gender after Lyotard. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Rada Iveković

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Rada Iveković claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Rada Iveković before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Rada Iveković ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Rada Iveković

In research: Rada Iveković appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Rada Iveković in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Rada Iveković is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1945 births, 20th-century Croatian philosophers, 20th-century Croatian women writers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Rada Iveković outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Rada Iveković in simple terms?

Rada Iveković (born 1945 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian professor, philosopher, Indologist and writer. Research Iveković's research interests include comparative philosophy (Asian philosophy, particularly Indian, and Western), feminist theory and feminist philosophy as well as political philo…

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