Milan Uzelac

Milan Uzelac ( born April 8, 1950 in Vrsac, Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian philosopher, writer, poet, doctor of sciences and professor of ontology and aesthetics.

Academic career

Milan Uzelac studied philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Belgrade. He obtained a diploma thesis in the field of aesthetics on Plato's poet critique his college degree: " On the position of poetry in Plato's thinking" (1974). His Master of Arts he made at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade with his work from the aesthetic " Aesthetic and literary critical views of the socialists of the second half of the 19th century Laza Nančić " (1980). At the Faculty of Arts, University of Zagreb, he received his doctorate in 1985 with his thesis " philosophy of the game by Eugen Fink " ( doctoral committee: Branko despot, Danilo Pejović, Ante Pazanin ).

Milan Uzelac 1972 was one of the founders of the literary community Vršac Vršac. From 1974 to 1979 he was the editor in charge. In the period 1981-1986 he worked as a university lecturer at the Pedagogical University in Kikinda. 1986 he was appointed to the faculty of the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad, where he taught the subjects General Art Theory and Sociology of Art until 1990. In the same year he was elected an associate professor for aesthetics at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, while five years later (1995 ) was appointed professor of the subjects aesthetics and ontology followed at the same faculty. From 1995 to 2007 he taught at the Art Academy in Novi Sad, the subjects aesthetics, music aesthetics and philosophy of history (the same subjects he taught at the Art Academy sideline during the period in which he was permanently employed at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Novi Sad ). From October 2007 to the summer of 2010 he was employed at the Faculty of Arts in Pristina with headquarters in Kosovska Mitrovica as a philosophy professor, where he taught the subjects of Philosophy of the Middle Ages to modern times and ontology. Since February 2011 he has held a professorship at the University of Applied Sciences in Vršac and teaches the subjects of main directions of contemporary philosophy, philosophy of aesthetic education and philosophical foundations of modern educational theories.

1999 Uzelac was awarded the Prize of the City of Vršac.

Work

In the center of his aesthetic investigations of the phenomenological interpretation of the world ( Eugen Fink, Martin Heidegger ) and of recent scientific and especially cosmological theories ( Ilya Prigogine, Andrei Linde, Brian Green, Edward Witten) go out, is the ontic and ontological status of the artistic work in the aftermath of postmodernism. Such an approach enabled him to see the philosophical work of Nicholas of Cusa and the Metaphysics of Melancholy by Albrecht Dürer in a new light.

His philosophical position developed Milan Uzelac in "dialogue" with Aristotle, the greatest philosopher of antiquity, as well as with his students and critics ( Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suárez, Jacques Maritain ), but also with the most renowned Russian philosopher ( Gustav Spet, Ivan Ilyin, Aleksei Losev ). His special interest is the philosophy of music, the place of music in the cosmos, where he started this when the Pythagoreans and Platonists ( Pythagoras, Plato, Aristide Quintilian ) about Johannes Kepler, whom he considers the greatest musicians of all time, to the modern Neopythagoreern ( Ferruccio Busoni, Aleksei Losev ) indicated. His interpretation after ended the period of music with the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff. The 20th century characterize an experimentation with sounds ( Edgar Varèse, Pierre Boulaise, Karlheinz Stockhausen) and an absence of music, what the misunderstanding leads to the encounter with the music tradition (Alfred Schnittke ).

In addition to around ten poetry books in which he follows the tradition of Constantine Cavafy, Bertolt Brecht, Gottfried Benn, Zbigniew Herbert and Vasko Popa, Milan Uzelac is also the author of a number of poetry translations from German ( Gottfried Benn ) and the 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 of: German Society for Phenomenological Research ( Trier, Germany ), Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (Paris, France), International Board of Advisors of the Center for Research in Phenomenology ( Boca Raton, Florida, United States)