Mihailo Marković

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Mihailo Marković

Mihailo Marković ( Serbian - Cyrillic Михаило Марковић ; born February 24, 1923 in Belgrade ; † February 7, 2010 ibid) was a Yugoslav or Serbian philosopher . In the 1960s and 1970s, he became known as a member of the practice group . As a Marxist, he joined the SPS in the 1990s, but was expelled from it in 1995. Marković was one of the authors of the SANU memorandum (1985).

Life

Marković became a member of the youth organization of the CPJ in 1940 and a full member in 1944. He took part in the partisan movement and was involved in the liberation of Yugoslavia from German occupation. He ended the war with the rank of captain of the first class.

Marković studied at the University of Belgrade and received a doctorate in philosophy in 1955. In 1956 he also received his doctorate from University College London . He studied logic with Alfred Jules Ayer and wrote a doctoral thesis on The Concept of Logic . In 1963 he became professor of philosophy at the University of Belgrade, where he was dean from 1966 to 1967. 1960 to 1962 Marković was President of the Yugoslav Society for Philosophy. Marković was strategist of the student unrest in Belgrade in 1968. He was director at the Institute of Philosophy in Belgrade, was expelled from the faculty in 1975 for political reasons and was active as a dissident against the government of Josip Broz Tito . During the 1970s he was still teaching at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Marković was also co-chairman of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (1975–1985). Since 1963 he was a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and since 1983 a full member of this academy.

Marković was one of the founders and the vice-president of Slobodan Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and its chief ideologist until 1995. During the trial of Milošević before the International Criminal Court in The Hague , he appeared as a defense witness in 2004. He died on February 7, 2010 in Belgrade.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Revizija filozofskih osnova marksizma u Sovjetskom Savezu. (The revision of the philosophical foundations of Marxism in the Soviet Union.) 1952.
  • Dijalektićka teorija znaćenja. 1961. English translation: Dialectical Theory of Meaning. 1984, ISBN 90-277-1596-3 .
  • Humanizam i dijalektika. 1967. German translation by Peter Urban : Dialektik der Praxis. 1968. 3rd edition 1971.
  • Price pitivanja. (Research.) 1972. 2nd edition 2004, ISBN 86-7058-294-5 .
  • The contemporary Marx. Essays on humanist communism. 1974, ISBN 0-85124-084-4 .
  • From affluence to practice. Philosophy and social criticism. 1974, ISBN 0-472-06191-7 .
  • with Robert S. Cohen: Yugoslavia. The rise anf fall of socialist humanism; a history of the "Praxis" group. 1975, ISBN 0-85124-129-8 .
  • Filozofski osnovi nauke. (The philosophical foundations of the sciences.) 1981.
  • Democratic socialism. Theory and Practice. 1982, ISBN 0-7108-0387-7 .
  • Sloboda i praksa. (Freedom and Practice.) 1997, ISBN 86-17-06073-5 .
  • Društvena misao na granici milenijuma. (Societal thinking on the border to the Millennium.) 1999, ISBN 86-355-0438-0 .
  • Filozofski susreti. (Philosophical Encounters.) 2003, ISBN 86-80001-30-9 .
  • (Ed.): Levica danas u Srbiji i svetu. (The Left Today in Serbia and the World.) 2007, ISBN 978-86-83965-24-3 .

In 1994 an edition of selected works in 8 volumes was published as Izabrana dela Mihaila Markovića .

Essays

  • New forms of democracy in socialism. In: European Rundschau . Vol. 9, No. 3, 1981, pp. 57-75.
  • Yugoslavia and the European crisis. In: L 80 . No. 17, 1981, pp. 139-155.

Web links

Obituary article

Texts and interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RTS, February 7, 2010 Preminuo Mihailo Markovic
personal data
SURNAME Marković, Mihailo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav or Serbian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2010
Place of death Belgrade