Milan Uzelac (philosopher)
Milan Uzelac (born April 8, 1950 in Vršac , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian philosopher , writer , poet , doctor of science and professor of ontology and aesthetics .
Academic career
Milan Uzelac studied philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Belgrade . He obtained his university degree with a diploma thesis in the field of aesthetics on Plato's poetic criticism: "On the position of poetry in Plato's thinking" (1974). He did his master's degree at the Department of Philosophy of the Philosophical Faculty in Belgrade with his thesis on aesthetics “Aesthetic and literary critical conceptions of the socialist of the second half of the 19th century Laza Nančić” (1980). At the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zagreb he received his doctorate in 1985 with his dissertation "Philosophy of Games by Eugen Fink " (doctoral committee: Branko Despot, Danilo Pejović, Ante Pažanin).
Milan Uzelac was one of the founders of the literary community Vršac in Vršac in 1972 . From 1974 to 1979 he was the responsible editor. Between 1981 and 1986 he was a professor at the Pedagogical University in Kikinda . In 1986 he was appointed lecturer at the Art Academy of Novi Sad University , where he taught general art theory and sociology of art until 1990. In the same year he was elected associate professor for aesthetics at the Philosophical Faculty of Novi Sad University, while five years later (1995) at the same faculty he was appointed full professor for aesthetics and ontology . From 1995 to 2007 he taught aesthetics, musical aesthetics and history of philosophy at the Art Academy in Novi Sad (he taught the same subjects at the Art Academy part-time during the time he was permanently employed at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Novi Sad). From October 2007 to summer 2010 he was employed at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Pristina , based in Kosovska Mitrovica, as a professor of philosophy, where he taught the subjects of Medieval and Modern Philosophy and Ontology. Since February 2011 he has been a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Vršac, where he teaches the main subjects of contemporary philosophy, philosophy of aesthetic education and the philosophical foundations of modern pedagogical theories.
In 1999 Uzelac was awarded the City of Vršac Prize.
Act
The focus of his aesthetic investigations, which are based on the phenomenological interpretation of the world ( Eugen Fink , Martin Heidegger ) as well as more recent scientific and especially cosmological theories ( Ilya Prigogine , Andrej Linde , Brian Greene , Edward Witten ), is the ontic and ontological status of the artistic work in the post-modern era. Such an approach enabled him to see the philosophical work of Nikolaus von Kues and the metaphysics of melancholy by Albrecht Dürer in a new light.
Milan Uzelac develops his philosophical position in a "dialogue" with Aristotle , the greatest philosopher of antiquity, as well as with his students and critics ( Thomas von Aquin , Francisco Suárez , Jacques Maritain ), but also with the most famous Russian philosophers ( Gustav Spet , Iwan Iljin , Aleksey Losev ). He is particularly interested in the philosophy of music , the place of music in the cosmos, ranging from the Pythagoreans and Platonists ( Pythagoras , Plato , Aristide Quintilian ) to Johannes Kepler , whom he considers the greatest musician of all time, to the modern Neopythagoreans (Ferruccio Busoni, Aleksej Losev) interpreted. According to his interpretation, the music era ended with the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninov . The 20th century is characterized by experimentation with sounds ( Edgar Varèse , Pierre Boulez , Karlheinz Stockhausen ) and an absence of music, which leads to misunderstandings when encountering musical tradition ( Alfred Schnittke ).
In addition to around ten poetry books, in which he follows the tradition of Konstantin Kavafis , Bertolt Brecht , Gottfried Benn , Zbigniew Herbert and Vasko Popa , Milan Uzelac is also the author of a whole series of poetry translations from German (Gottfried Benn) and Romanian ( Lucian Blaga , Marin Sorescu , Petre Stoica , Ion Mircea , Mircea Dinescu ). Uzelac is the author of several books in the fields of philosophy and poetry .
Uzelac is a member: German Society for Phenomenological Research ( Trier , Germany ), Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art ( Paris , France ), International Board of Advisors of Center for Research in Phenomenology ( Boca Raton , Florida , USA )
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| SURNAME | Uzelac, Milan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian philosopher, writer, poet, doctor of science and professor of ontology and aesthetics |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vršac , SFR Yugoslavia |